On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Date: 1757 / Period: 18th century

1. Canterbury Castle

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 9 inches (14.9 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Refectory, St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 14 7/8 inches (21.3 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Great Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 15 3/16 inches (20.6 × 38.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Bridge and Castle at Rochester

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 23 1/2 inches (23.3 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Secundini Monument at Ighel in the Duchy of Luxembourg

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink with gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 x 20 inches (33.5 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Portrait of a Young Girl

Creator:: Samuel Collins, 1735–1768, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Gouache and watercolor on incised ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches (3.5 x 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Elizabeth Bradshaw

Creator:: Gervase Spencer, ca. 1715–1763, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: enamel on porcelain
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/4 x 1 7/8 inches (5.7 x 4.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Gervase Spencer, ca. 1715–1763, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches (3.2 x 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Imports of Great Britain from France

Creator:: Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734–1760
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8in. (25.1 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 23 1/2 inches (26 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Falls at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 7/8 inches (26.7 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Ozias Humphry, 1742–1810, British, active in Italy (1773–77) and India (1785–87)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches (4.4 x 3.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Habit of an Arabian Soldier

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1757 and 1772
Medium:: Etching and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 19 1/4 in. (27.9 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

14. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 x 14 1/16 inches (23.5 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/2 x 14 inches (24.2 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 x 14 3/16 inches (24 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 x 14 1/16 inches (23.6 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 x 14 inches (24 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The River Stour, St. Mildred's Church and the Castle of Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 21 7/8in. (21 x 55.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. American Non-pareil

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1762
Medium:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

21. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: Ozias Humphry, 1742–1810, British, active in Italy (1773–77) and India (1785–87)
Date:: undated
Medium:: watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches (3.5 x 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger N. Radford

22. A South West Prospect of the City of Bath

Creator:: Henry Roberts, ca. 1710–1790, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Hand colored engraving on thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 25 5/8 inches (40.6 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Jane Countess of Hyndford

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Lady Fortescue

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 9 inches (33 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. The Maid in Rural Happiness

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723)
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 13 1/4 inches (29.1 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Lady Fortescue

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 1/16 inches (35.6 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Dr. John Reynolds, S.T.B.

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Dr. Thomas Sherlock, Lord Bishop of London

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 1/16 inches (36 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Maria, Countess Waldegrave

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775, British
Date:: ca.1762
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (39.4 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Maria Countess of Waldegrave and Her Child

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1762
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 3/16 inches (16.8 × 13.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Lady Fortescue

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 10 3/8 inches (37 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Miss Jacobs

Creator:: Print made by John Spilsbury, 1730–1795
Date:: ca. 1762
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 20 × 14 inches (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Elizabeth Berkeley (née Drax), Countess of Berkeley

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 inches (32.9 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A View of the Lake etc. at West Wycomb

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 23 11/16 inches (45.4 × 60.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A View of the House and Part of the Garden at West Wycomb

Creator:: William Woolnoth, active 1806–1830, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 23 3/4 inches (45.4 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Jacob, Son of the Honorable William Bouverie

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (36.8 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. A View of the Casade etc. at West Wycomb

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 23 5/8 inches (45.4 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Landscape with Cows Standing in a Ford, Cottage Beyond

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 21 3/4 inches (44 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. View of the Walton Bridge, Venus's Temple

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 23 5/8 inches (45.4 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Measured Drawing of Sculpture in Gymnasium at Ephesus

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 6 7/16 inches (32.7 × 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches (19.4 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Sketch of Centaurs and Lapiths From a Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 14 1/2 inches (17.3 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Landscape with Temple Ruins at Sunium

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Penand brown ink, gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 18 1/4 inches (29.5 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Sketch of a Horseman, From the Parthenon Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (19.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Sacred Cave of Archidamus

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 18 7/16 inches (29.5 x 46.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Langley Park, Norfolk: Elevation

Creator:: John Sanderson, active 1730; died 1774, British
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Pen and black, brown, and gray ink with gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 18 3/16 inches (28.7 x 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The West Perspective Views of His Majesty's New Royal Hospital Building near Plymouth

Creator:: R. F. Tringham
Date:: ca.1762
Medium:: Engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 × 23 7/8 inches (47.6 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 x 14 inches (24 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Horace Walpole, Youngest Son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Oxford

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 x 9 7/8in. (35.6 x 25.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Jane, Countess of Hyndford

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 15/16 inches (32.9 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Clerical figure with three balls balanced between his hands

Creator:: Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762, British
Date:: ca. 1762
Medium:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Creator:: Payne, John, 1710-1771
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [18] leaves : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern : particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject : to which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage.

A collection of the dresses of different nations, antient and modern : particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject : to which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage.

Date:: MDCCLVII-MDCCLXXII. [1757-72]
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal : y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manvscrita, formada en Mexico año de 1739 / por Miguèl Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus ...

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680-1764
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 3 v. : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 50 x 68 cm., on sheet 55 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Art of surveying.

Creator:: Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751
Date:: 1757?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([74] p.) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

Creator:: Martin, Phil., active 18th century
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701-1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Hobbinol, or The rural games : a burlesque poem, in blank verse / by William Somervile, esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675-1742
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: vii, 78 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. [Worcester porcelain mug] [realia].

Creator:: Hancock, Robert, 1730-1817
Date:: [1757?]
Physical Description:: 1 mug : porcelain, decorated with transfer-prints ; 118 mm in height, 90 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

63. The London tradesman : being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the instruction of youth in their choice of business ... ; to which is added, an appendix, containing many useful particulars relative to the foregoing / by R. Campbell ...

Creator:: Campbell, R
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and Irish, gold, silver, and brass coins and medals, of the learned and ingenious Mr. James Simon, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquaries Society of London, author of the historical account of Irish coins, late of the city of Dublin, merchant, deceased : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in the Hay-Market, on Thursday, the 8th of December, 1757, and the following day.

Creator:: Ford, Mr., active 1741-1757
Date:: [1757]
Physical Description:: 12 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Rural beauties; or, The natural history of the four following western counties, viz. Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. With additional remarks. By Theophilus Botanista, M.D.

Creator:: Botanista, Theophilus
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 p.., xxxvi, xxv-xxxiv, 314 p. front., fold. map. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Mes rêveries / ouvrage posthume de Maurice comte de Saxe, duc de Curlande et de Sémigalle, maréchal général des armées de Sa Majesté trés-chrétienne ; augmenté d'une histoire abrégée de sa vie, & de différentes pièces qui y ont rapport, par l'abbé Pérau.

Creator:: Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., plans ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey / revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex ; being an actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales, distinctly laid down on one hundred and one copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, hills, rivers, brooks, churches, capital seats, and every place worthy of note throughout each road ; with the addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr. Ogilby ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([10], [1], 101 p.) : 102 maps ; 19 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The art of preserving health : a poem / by John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 99 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay. In two volumes.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([18], 334 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.

Creator:: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: viii, [8], 184 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A plan of the city and the harbour of Rochefort : a place remarkable for its fine docks & surprizing magazines for warlike stores where from this important place are continually sent supplies of all sorts for building men of war to Brest, the l'Orient, St. Malo's, Toulon & several other sea ports in France.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 29 x 42 cm., on sheet 57 x 78 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701-1754
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A plan of the city, port, & fortifications of Brest and Recouvrance, with their environs / taken by the King's engineer.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 33 x 51 cm., on sheet 57 x 78 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils / engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [10], 19, [1] pages, XXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho: Kitchin, sculp.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711-1768
Date:: [that is, 1757]
Physical Description:: 1 map in 4 sheets : hand colored ; 136 x 192 cm, sheets 71 x 99 cm and 71 x 100 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

Creator:: Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [18], 92, [2], 93-116, [2], 117-120, [2], 121-748, [4] pages, [115] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin : with the division of the parishes, reduced from the large plan in four sheets / by Iohn Rocque ... = Plan de la ville et faubourgs de Dublin : avec la divisions des paroisses, redui d'apres celui qui est en 4 feuilles / levé et publiez par Iean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map : 48 x 70 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A collection of the most remarkable ruins of Lisbon : as they appeared immediately after the great earthquake and fire, which destroyed that city November 1, 1755 / drawn on the spot by Messieurs Paris and Pedegache = Collecaõ de algumas ruinas de Lisboa : causadas pelo terremoto & pelo fogo, do primeiro de Novembro, do anno 1755 / debuxadas na mesma Cidade par m.m. Paris & Pedegade = Receuil des plus belles ruines de Lisbonne : causées par le tremblement et par le feu du premier Novembre 1755 / deffiné sur les lieux par m.m. Paris & Pedegache.

Creator:: Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707-1783
Date:: [not before 1757]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 x 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A catalogue of a genuine and capital collection of Roman earthen ware in dishes, plates, ewers, &c. : painted by Raphael, Benvenuto Garofolo, Julio Romano, Vasari, Paci, Roso, Perino del Vaga, and others : also, a curious collection of miniatures by Isaac Oliver, Hillier, Hoskins, and others : and likewise several pictures by various Master's : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18th of this instant March 1757 : to be viewed on Tuesday the 15th and every day after till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock :

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774
Date:: [1757]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The beauties of England, or, A comprehensive view of the public structures, the seats of the nobility and gentry, the two universities, the cities, market towns, antiquities and curiosities, natural and artificial, for which this island is remarkable : including a circumstantial account of the curiosities of London and Westminster : divided into the respective counties and intended as a travelling pocket companion ...

Creator:: Luckombe, Philip, -1803
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xxii, 344 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640-
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The history of the Saracens : containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet : giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem : illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people : collected from the most authentic Arabic authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language / by Simon Ockley, B.D. Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimerby Simon Ockley.

Creator:: Ockley, Simon, 1678-1720
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A plan of the city, and fortifications of Louisburg / from a survey made by Richard Gridley ... ; A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg : with the French batteries that defended it, and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the siege in 1745.

Creator:: Gridley, Richard, 1711-1796
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 maps on 1 sheet ; 38 x 47 cm. and 38 x 45 cm., on sheet 54 x 69 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The Italian library : containing an account of the lives and works of the most valuable authors of Italy, with a preface, exhibiting the changes of the Tuscan language, from the barbarous ages to the present time / by Giuseppe Baretti.

Creator:: Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio, 1719-1789
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xciv, [2], 343, [27] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A catalogue of the entire large and valuable collection of prints, drawings, and books of prints, of Mr. George Vertue, engraver ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his great room the upper end of St. James's Haymarket, on Wednesday the 16th of this instant March, 1757, and the five following evenings, Sunday excepted ...

Creator:: Ford, Mr., auctioneer
Date:: 1757]
Physical Description:: 16 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Les ruines de Balbec, autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie.

Creator:: Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], 28 pages, XLVI leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Cœlosyria.

Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: 28 p., XLVI leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756 : interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes : necessay to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general : and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York : in a letter to a nobleman.

Creator:: Livingston, William, 1723-1790
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [4], 144 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

Creator:: Bertram, Charles, 1723-1765
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A catalogue of the entire and genuine library of books of Mr. George Vertue, engraver ... consisting of scarce and valuable editions in history, antiquity, painting, architecture, &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his great room the upper end of St. James's Haymarket, on Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th of this instant March, 1757 ...

Creator:: Ford, Mr., auctioneer
Date:: 1757]
Physical Description:: 11 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Pictures belonging to King Charles the First, at his several palaces : appraised, and most of them sold by the Council of State.

Date:: [1757?]
Physical Description:: 8 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A survey of the city, harbour, bay and environs of Dublin : on the same scale as those of London, Paris & Rome / by John Rocque ... = Plan de la ville, havre, baye, & environs de Dublin : sur la meme echelle de ceux de Londres, Paris & Rome / par Jean Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 96 x 140 cm., sheets 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Dictionnaire portatif de peinture, sculpture et gravure : avec un Traité pratique des differentes manieres de peindre, dont la théorie est développée dans les articles qui en sont susceptibles : ouvrage utile aux artistes, aux élèves & aux amateurs / par Dom. Antoine-Joseph Pernety.

Creator:: Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716-1801
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], cxxviii, 565 p., 8 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. A journal of eight days journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames : through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. : with miscellaneous thoughts, moral and religious ; in sixty-four letters addressed to two ladies of the partie : to which is added an essay on tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation ..., with thirty-two letters to two ladies ... / by Mr. H*****.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A plan of the city of St. Martins in the island of Ré / drawn by the King's engineer.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 15 x 27 cm., on sheet 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Canterbury Castle

2. The Refectory, St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

3. The Great Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

4. The Bridge and Castle at Rochester

5. The Secundini Monument at Ighel in the Duchy of Luxembourg

6. Portrait of a Young Girl

7. Elizabeth Bradshaw

8. Portrait of a Gentleman

9. The Imports of Great Britain from France

10. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

11. The Falls at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

12. Portrait of a Gentleman

13. Habit of an Arabian Soldier

14. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

15. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

16. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

17. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

18. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

19. The River Stour, St. Mildred's Church and the Castle of Canterbury

20. American Non-pareil

21. Portrait of a Lady

22. A South West Prospect of the City of Bath

23. Jane Countess of Hyndford

24. Lady Fortescue

25. Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley

26. The Maid in Rural Happiness

27. Lady Fortescue

28. Dr. John Reynolds, S.T.B.

29. Dr. Thomas Sherlock, Lord Bishop of London

30. Maria, Countess Waldegrave

31. Maria Countess of Waldegrave and Her Child

32. Lady Fortescue

33. Miss Jacobs

34. Elizabeth Berkeley (née Drax), Countess of Berkeley

35. A View of the Lake etc. at West Wycomb

36. A View of the House and Part of the Garden at West Wycomb

37. Jacob, Son of the Honorable William Bouverie

38. A View of the Casade etc. at West Wycomb

39. Landscape with Cows Standing in a Ford, Cottage Beyond

40. View of the Walton Bridge, Venus's Temple

41. Measured Drawing of Sculpture in Gymnasium at Ephesus

42. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

43. Sketch of Centaurs and Lapiths From a Frieze

44. Landscape with Temple Ruins at Sunium

45. Sketch of a Horseman, From the Parthenon Frieze

46. Sacred Cave of Archidamus

47. Langley Park, Norfolk: Elevation

48. The West Perspective Views of His Majesty's New Royal Hospital Building near Plymouth

49. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

50. Horace Walpole, Youngest Son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Oxford

51. Jane, Countess of Hyndford

52. Clerical figure with three balls balanced between his hands

53. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

54. A book of eighteen leaves : containing divers subjects for the use of goldsmiths, chasers, carvers, etc. / from Messrs. Germain, Messonier, Sig. Cattarello &c.

56. Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal : y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manvscrita, formada en Mexico año de 1739 / por Miguèl Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus ...

57. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

58. Art of surveying.

59. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

61. Hobbinol, or The rural games : a burlesque poem, in blank verse / by William Somervile, esq.

62. [Worcester porcelain mug] [realia].

65. Rural beauties; or, The natural history of the four following western counties, viz. Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. With additional remarks. By Theophilus Botanista, M.D.

66. Mes rêveries / ouvrage posthume de Maurice comte de Saxe, duc de Curlande et de Sémigalle, maréchal général des armées de Sa Majesté trés-chrétienne ; augmenté d'une histoire abrégée de sa vie, & de différentes pièces qui y ont rapport, par l'abbé Pérau.

68. The art of preserving health : a poem / by John Armstrong, M.D.

69. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

70. Fables / by the late Mr. Gay. In two volumes.

71. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.

74. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

75. A plan of the city, port, & fortifications of Brest and Recouvrance, with their environs / taken by the King's engineer.

76. Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils / engraved by the best hands, from the originals drawn in China by Mr. Chambers, architect, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence ; to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c.

78. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

83. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

88. The Italian library : containing an account of the lives and works of the most valuable authors of Italy, with a preface, exhibiting the changes of the Tuscan language, from the barbarous ages to the present time / by Giuseppe Baretti.

90. Les ruines de Balbec, autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie.