Date: 1759 / Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Corfe Castle, Dorset

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810, British
Date:: 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Ballad Singer

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811, British
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Tobias Smollet

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 3/4 x 40 inches (126.4 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Francis Harding, active 1730–1766, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 5/8 x 39 inches (62.5 x 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 15 1/4in. (32.1 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone

8. Pit Ticket

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mr. Arthur F. Tuttle

9. The Cockpit

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 15in. (31.8 x 38.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

11. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

12. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

13. Sheet of Studies of Oriental Figures

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 3/8 inches (29.5 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A London Potboy

Creator:: Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734–1760
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (23.8 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Nottingham Castle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Graphite and gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (14 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Westminster Abbey and Bridge from Somerset Garden

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (20 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Prospect of Vapourland

Creator:: Richard Bentley, 1708–1782, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Brown and black ink and wash over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 7/8 inches (47 x 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (18.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. At La Posta

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (24.1 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Running Postillion

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (24.1 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Louers in a Glade

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 10 3/8in. (32.9 x 26.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Untitled: Patstoral scene

Creator:: Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 x 11 7/8in. (41.6 x 30.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Lord Camden

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpain, Bryan, and Latimer

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: between 1759 and 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 14 15/16 inches (53.1 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: between 1759 and 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 15 1/16 inches (53.5 × 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A View of the Rotunda House and Gardens at Ranelagh with an exact representation of the Jubilee Ball as it appeared May 24th, 1759

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The American Locust &c.

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1759-1765
Medium:: Colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

30. The Honorable Augustus Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 19 3/4in. (36.2 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

31. Miss Kitty Fisher

Creator:: Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766, Irish
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid 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

32. Miss Kitty Fisher

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.8 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Highway Robbery

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen, and black ink on medium, sightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (20.6 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A View from Lord Suffok's Bedchamber Window At Elford Down into the Stable Court, 1759

Creator:: unknown artist, ( M. Andover )
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 13/16 × 18 1/8 inches (40.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Representation of the Glarious Defeat of the French Fleet off Belleisle on the 20 November 1759

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Man Leading Tow Mules Supporting a Chair, Large Tree in Foreground

Creator:: Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.4 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A View of Wilton, in Wiltshire

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 20 1/2in. (36.8 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Kew: The White House from the Lawn

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 1/2 x 21 1/4in. (36.8 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A View of the Palace from the South side of the Lake with the Temples of Bellona and AEolus and the House of Confucius in the Royal Gardens at Kew

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Hand-colored engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 5/8 x 21 1/8in. (37.1 x 53.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. A View of Esher in Surrey the Seat of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham Esq.

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 3/8 x 20 1/2in. (36.5 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seta of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Pembrooke

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 3/8 x 20 3/8in. (36.5 x 51.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Scenographia Americana: A North View of Port Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, when in Possession of his Majesty's Forces in 1759

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Scenographia Americana: A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe, on the French Intrenchments near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759

Creator:: William Elliot, active 1774, died 1792, British
Date:: 1759-1760
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Ships of the Secret Expedition against the Havannah

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection

45. Ditchley in Oxfordshire

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 27 3/4in. (37.5 x 70.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Mrs. Macaulay

Creator:: Print made by Jonathan Spilsbury, active 1765–1780
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Catharine Macaulay

Creator:: Print made by Jonathan Spilsbury, active 1765–1780
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8in. (35.2 x 25.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: 1759-1762
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 9 15/16 inches (35.6 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A View of Cliefden in Buckingham, the seat of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Inchiquin

Creator:: Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Engraving tinted with watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20in. (33.7 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, after 1759

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish
Date:: between 1759 and 1765
Medium:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (37.1 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan

51. Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 pts. in 1 v. ([1],12, [1], 12 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680-1764
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China : likewise their marine subjects : the whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. consisting of great variety, among which are the following, viz. royal garden seats, heads and terminations for canals, alcoves, banqueting houses, temples both open and close, adapted for canals and others ways, bridges, summer-houses, repositories, umbrello'd seats, cool retreats, the summer dwelling of a chief bonza or priest, honorary pagodas, Japaneze [sic] and imperial barges of China : also, those for the emperor's women, and principal officers attending on the emperor, pleasure boats, &c. : to which are added, Chinese flowers, landscapes, figures, ornaments, &c. : the whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, from real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate / by P. Decker, architect.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A poetical description of Mr. Hogarth's election prints: in four cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's sanction and inspection ...

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1759
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 30 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

Creator:: Robinson, William, approximately 1744-
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

Date:: [1759-1771]
Physical Description:: 21 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold., part col.) ports., maps. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

Creator:: Wren, Stephen
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([2], 960, 54 p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 l., 151, [1] p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The art of painting in oil ...

Creator:: Smith, John, 1647 or 1648-1727?
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 4 p.., 110 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

Creator:: Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Conjectures on original composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison.

Creator:: Young, Edward, 1683-1765
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [4], 112 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, William, 1721-1793
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A catalogue of the late Sir Everard Fawkener's pictures, antique bronzes, large marble group of a lion devouring a horse, two curious Egyptian mummies of a woman and a child : several large portraits, of English gentlemen, by Liotard, in frames and glasses : and a collection of other valuable pictures, vases, and basso relievos, a curious table inlaid with brass, a large book-case, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ford, at his Great Room in St. James's Haymarket, on Tuesday the 27th of this instant March 1759.

Creator:: Ford, James (Auctioneer)
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763-1770
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Description historique-géographique des isles Britanniques ou des royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande / par M. l'Abbé Expilly, de la Société Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy ; avec des cartes géographiques.

Creator:: Expilly, M. l'abbé (Jean-Joseph), 1719-1793
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 464 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : maps, 17 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The County of Cambridge [cartographic material] : containing the city & county town, with the market towns, rivers, roads, & distances / by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Bowen, Emanuel, -1767
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 17.8 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

71. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690-1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Accurate vorstellung der samtlichen koeniglich preussischen armee : worinnen zur eigentlichen Kenntniss der Uniform von jedem Regimente ein Officier und Gemeiner in Völliger Montirung und ganzer Statur nach dem Leben abgebildet sind Nebst beygefügter Nachricht 1.) von der Stiftung. 2.) denen Chefs. 3.) der Staerke und 4.) der in Friedenszeiten habenden Gvarnisons iedes Regiments / herausgegeben und gezeichnet von I.C.H. v. S.

Creator:: Schmalen, Johann Christ. Hermann von
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [121], [2] leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Date:: 1757-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Corfe Castle, Dorset

2. The Fishery

3. The Ballad Singer

4. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

5. Tobias Smollet

6. Warwick Castle

7. Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

8. Pit Ticket

9. The Cockpit

10. Costume Study

11. Costume Study

12. Costume Study

13. Sheet of Studies of Oriental Figures

14. A London Potboy

15. Nottingham Castle

16. Westminster Abbey and Bridge from Somerset Garden

17. A Prospect of Vapourland

18. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

19. At La Posta

20. A Running Postillion

21. Louers in a Glade

22. Untitled: Patstoral scene

23. Lord Camden

24. Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpain, Bryan, and Latimer

25. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

26. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

27. Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland

28. A View of the Rotunda House and Gardens at Ranelagh with an exact representation of the Jubilee Ball as it appeared May 24th, 1759

29. The American Locust &c.

30. The Honorable Augustus Keppel

31. Miss Kitty Fisher

32. Miss Kitty Fisher

33. The Highway Robbery

34. A View from Lord Suffok's Bedchamber Window At Elford Down into the Stable Court, 1759

35. Representation of the Glarious Defeat of the French Fleet off Belleisle on the 20 November 1759

36. Man Leading Tow Mules Supporting a Chair, Large Tree in Foreground

37. A View of Wilton, in Wiltshire

38. Kew: The White House from the Lawn

39. A View of the Palace from the South side of the Lake with the Temples of Bellona and AEolus and the House of Confucius in the Royal Gardens at Kew

40. A View of Esher in Surrey the Seat of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham Esq.

41. A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seta of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Pembrooke

42. Scenographia Americana: A North View of Port Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, when in Possession of his Majesty's Forces in 1759

43. Scenographia Americana: A View of the Fall of Montmorenci and the Attack made by General Wolfe, on the French Intrenchments near Beauport, with the Grenadiers of the Army, July 31 1759

44. Ships of the Secret Expedition against the Havannah

45. Ditchley in Oxfordshire

46. Mrs. Macaulay

47. Catharine Macaulay

48. Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough

49. A View of Cliefden in Buckingham, the seat of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Inchiquin

50. Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, after 1759

52. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

55. A poetical description of Mr. Hogarth's election prints: in four cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's sanction and inspection ...

56. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

57. Royal magazine; or, Gentleman's monthly companion.

58. Catalogue of the prints in Mr Rapins Hist. of England, and Mr Tindals Continuation : with the ornaments &c. explained.

59. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue ...

60. The art of painting in oil ...

61. The Prince of Abissinia : a tale in two volumes.

62. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

63. Conjectures on original composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison.

64. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

65. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

66. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

69. Description historique-géographique des isles Britanniques ou des royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande / par M. l'Abbé Expilly, de la Société Royale des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy ; avec des cartes géographiques.

70. The County of Cambridge [cartographic material] : containing the city & county town, with the market towns, rivers, roads, & distances / by Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty.

71. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

73. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]