Date: 1766 / Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches (110.5 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Nancy Parsons in Turkish dress

Creator:: George Willison, 1741–1797, British, active in Italy (1760–1767) and India (1774–80)
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (57.2 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

Creator:: Francis Cotes, 1726–1770, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches (90.8 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Daniel Cunyngham

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (141 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Paetus and Arria

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Thomas Dawson, first Baron Dartrey (Later first Viscount Cremorne)

Creator:: Joseph Wilton, 1722–1803, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Carrara marble on an original oval socle
Dimensions:: Overall: 21 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches, 110 lb. (54.6 × 41.9 × 24.1 cm, 49.9 kg)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Polling

Creator:: after William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Etching and line engraving 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

9. Chairing the Members

Creator:: after William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Etching and line engraving 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

10. Beatrice, Hero and Ursula

Creator:: John Jones, ca. 1745–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Mezzotint, before title
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 17 7/8in. (55 x 45.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on smooth, thick, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 25 3/4 inches (20.3 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Castell Dinas Brân, Wales

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Graphite and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 × 19 5/8 inches (33 × 49.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Travellers in Turkey

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 20 3/8 inches (16.5 × 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: Nathaniel Hone, 1718–1784, Irish
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Enamel on porcelain
Dimensions:: Image: 1 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches (3.8 x 3.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 1 3/8 x 1 inches (3.5 x 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Portrait study of John Inigo Richards, R.A.

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 5 15/16 inches (14 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on smooth, thick, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 25 5/8 inches (21.9 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Oxford Physic Garden

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Green, ca. 1736–ca. 1800, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 17 3/8 inches (33.7 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953

19. Matthew Darly

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 3/4 inches (16.9 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Hunting [set of four]: 2. The Chace (titles are also inscribed in French)

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand colored mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Hunting [set of four]: 3. Making a Cast at a Fault (titles are also inscribed in French).

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand colored mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Hunting [set of four]: 4. The Death of the Fox (titles are also inscribed in French)

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand colored mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 'Gimcrack'

Creator:: William Pether, ca. 1738–1821, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint, first state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 17 15/16in. (40.6 x 45.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The French Lady in London

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794, Swiss
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Gray wash black ink and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Jacob Bates / The Famous English Horse Rider

Creator:: Georg Paul Nusbiegel, 1713–1776
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 18 3/4in. (36.5 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Hunting [set of four]: 1.Going to Cover (titles are also inscribed in French)

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand colored mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Matlock High-Torr

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand-colored engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 22 3/8in. (39.7 x 56.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. William Drummond of Hawthornden

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (39 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

29. The Right Honourable Sir Charles Pratt Knight, (now Lord Camden) Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas

Creator:: Johann Gottfried Haid, 1704–1767, German, active in Britain
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (50.7 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A View of St. James's Gate, from Cleveland Row

Creator:: Edward Rooker, 1724–1774, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Sir Jeffery Amherst

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Vincentius Marinelli

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: c.1766
Medium:: Line engravng and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Absalom's Submission to his Father, King David

Creator:: Print made by Johann Gottfried Haid, 1704–1767, German, active in Britain
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 1/8 inches (50.4 × 35.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Charles Phillips, 1737– after 1783
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 3/16 inches (51 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. The Boy and Pigeons

Creator:: Print made by Charles Phillips, 1737– after 1783
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Mr. Frodsham in the Character of Hamlet

Creator:: Edward Williams, ?, c.1750–1800
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 3/4in. (22.2 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. The Italian Bird Catcher

Creator:: Print made by Johnson, active 1766
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (44.5 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

39. Rev. Zachariah Mudge, D.D.

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 3/16 inches (33.7 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Mr. Thomas Gray

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A View of the Buildings on the Six Sides of the Pulpit of St. Katherine

Creator:: unknown artist, ( J. Bayly ? )
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 13 3/8in. (27.6 x 34cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A View of Somerset House with St. Mary's Church in the Strand, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Honey-moon from Modern Love III: Modern Love Pl. 2

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 18in. (41.9 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The New Bridge, Blackfriars, London

Creator:: Robert Baldwin, active 1763–1769
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 48in. (31.8 x 121.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 19 7/8 inches (43.2 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 16 1/16 inches (63.8 × 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The Right Honourable Lady Mary Leslie

Creator:: John Spilsbury, 1730–1795
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 15/16 × 14 inches (50.6 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724-1806
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

51. London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.

London and Westminster improved : illustrated by plans : to which is prefixed, A discourse on publick magnificence, with observations on the state of arts and artists in this kingdom, wherein the study of the polite arts is recommended as necessary to a liberal education : concluded by some proposals relative to places not laid down in the plans / by John Gwynn.

Creator:: Gwynn, John, 1713-1786
Date:: MDCCLXVU [1766]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 132 pages, IIII folded leaves of plates : plans ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., 105 leaves of plates on 85 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

Creator:: Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711-1798
Date:: 1766-1771
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosités; après le décès de feu monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville ... Par Pierre Remy.

Creator:: Remy, Pierre, fl. 1749-1787
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: xii, 152 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq., colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America : including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace : with an introductory account of the preceding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run : to which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages, a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances, and different routs : the whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates / published, from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.

Creator:: Smith, William, 1727-1803
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: xiii, 71 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present earl Brooke, and earl of Warwick, including the history and succession of the several earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick castle.

Creator:: Edmondson, Joseph, -1786
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 108 p. front., illus., 2 pl., 3 plans, 4 geneal. tab. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A catalogue of the several pictures, statues, and busto's in the picture gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 16 p., 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Britannia's triumph in the year MDCCLXII : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, &c. &c. ... / these drawings were made by Lieutenant Philip Ousbridge, an officer on the spot ...

Creator:: Orsbridge, Philip, -1767
Date:: MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: 4, [4] pages, 11, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian artists in painting and sculpture : in a series of letters / by the Abbe Winkelman ...

Creator:: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 158 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois / par J.M. Papillon ... ; ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure ...

Creator:: Papillon, Jean-Michel, 1698-1776
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 2 : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

Creator:: Gregory, John, 1724-1773
Date:: MDCCLXVI
Physical Description:: xvi, 239, [5] p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Mona antiqua restaurata : An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the derivatives of them in several of the tongues of Europe; with remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues / By Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanidan, in the Isle of Anglesey.

Creator:: Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 357, [3] p., XII leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country, in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, An admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy ...

Creator:: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: iv, 312 p., 1 l. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. In the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country ...

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

Creator:: Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

Creator:: Cumming, Alexander, 1733-1814
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 192, [14] p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Original designs of temples, and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste. By Tho. Collins Overton.

Creator:: Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 19 p. 50 plates (incl. plans, 1 fold.) 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The country in full cry, after poachers and hunters of various denominations : more particularly, insolent common-huntsmen ... take illegal and illiberal liberties upon the real landed-gentlemens grounds and inclosures : in a series of letters printed in the Edinburgh advertisers, No. 233, 236, 237, 238, 240, 245 ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. George Stevens's celebrated lecture on heads; : which has been exhibited upwards of three hundred successive nights to crowded audiences, and met with the most universal applause.

Creator:: Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Date:: ca. 1766]
Physical Description:: 8 p., 1 folded plate : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett ...

Creator:: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton, His Britannick Maiesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Naples = Antiquités etrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton, envoyé extraordinaire de S.M. Britannique en Cour de Naples.

Creator:: Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805
Date:: MDCCLXVI-MDCCLVII [1766-1767]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations (some color, some folded) ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Clive Caplan

76. Plan de la ville et foubourgs [sic] de York : capitale de la comté de meme nom / levé par le Sr. P. Chassereau ... ; avec les augmentationes jusqu'a l'an 1766.

Creator:: Chassereau, Pierre
Date:: [1766]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 43 x 39 cm., on sheet 48 x 68 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

Creator:: Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799
Date:: 1766-1780
Physical Description:: 10 v. ports. (incl. fronts.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The Life of Mr. James Quin, comedian, with the history of the stage from his commencing actor to his retreat to Bath ... To which is added a supplement of original facts and anecdotes ... together with his trial for the murder of Mr. Bowen.

Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 107 p. port. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. British, Rococo frame

Creator:: Huguenot craftsman, British
Date:: 3rd quarter of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

80. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, original gilding and water gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 55 1/2 × 45 × 2 1/4 inches (141 × 114.3 × 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

81. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Wood and compo, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

82. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, partially regilded over original oil and water gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

83. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

84. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood and compo, successive later oil gildings over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

85. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

86. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Wood and compo, original water gilding on outer frame; original oil gilding and sanded ground on inlay
Dimensions:: Frame: 12 5/8 × 10 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (32.1 × 26 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

87. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Wood, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

88. British Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 × 52 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (96.5 × 134 × 5.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

89. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Wood and compo, original water gilding on outer frame; original oil gilding and sanded ground on inlay
Dimensions:: Frame: 12 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (32.4 × 26 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

90. British Neoclassical 'Romney' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last 3rd of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

91. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood and compo, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 32 1/4 × 47 × 2 1/2 inches (81.9 × 119.4 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

92. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame component

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 80 1/2 × 51 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (204.5 × 130.8 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

93. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Regilded over original gilding
Dimensions:: Frame: 42 1/4 × 34 × 2 1/2 inches (107.3 × 86.4 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

94. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

95. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Medium:: Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Collection:: Frames
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

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1. A Conversation (The Artist's Brothers Peter and James Romney)

2. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

3. Nancy Parsons in Turkish dress

4. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

5. Daniel Cunyngham

6. Paetus and Arria

7. Thomas Dawson, first Baron Dartrey (Later first Viscount Cremorne)

8. The Polling

9. Chairing the Members

10. Beatrice, Hero and Ursula

11. Design for a Country House

12. Castell Dinas Brân, Wales

13. Travellers in Turkey

14. Portrait of a Lady

15. Portrait of a Gentleman

16. Portrait study of John Inigo Richards, R.A.

17. Design for a Country House

18. Oxford Physic Garden

19. Matthew Darly

20. Hunting [set of four]: 2. The Chace (titles are also inscribed in French)

21. Hunting [set of four]: 3. Making a Cast at a Fault (titles are also inscribed in French).

22. Hunting [set of four]: 4. The Death of the Fox (titles are also inscribed in French)

23. 'Gimcrack'

24. The French Lady in London

25. Jacob Bates / The Famous English Horse Rider

26. Hunting [set of four]: 1.Going to Cover (titles are also inscribed in French)

27. Matlock High-Torr

28. William Drummond of Hawthornden

29. The Right Honourable Sir Charles Pratt Knight, (now Lord Camden) Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas

30. A View of St. James's Gate, from Cleveland Row

31. Sir Jeffery Amherst

32. Vincentius Marinelli

33. Absalom's Submission to his Father, King David

34. Venus and Cupid

35. The Boy and Pigeons

36. Mr. Frodsham in the Character of Hamlet

37. The Italian Bird Catcher

38. Celadon and Amelia

39. Rev. Zachariah Mudge, D.D.

40. Mr. Thomas Gray

41. A View of the Buildings on the Six Sides of the Pulpit of St. Katherine

42. A View of Somerset House with St. Mary's Church in the Strand, London

43. The Honey-moon from Modern Love III: Modern Love Pl. 2

44. The New Bridge, Blackfriars, London

45. Celadon and Amelia

46. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

47. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

48. The Right Honourable Lady Mary Leslie

49. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

52. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

55. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, estampes, coquilles, & autres curiosités; après le décès de feu monsieur Dezalier d'Argenville ... Par Pierre Remy.

57. An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, to the time of Francis, the present earl Brooke, and earl of Warwick, including the history and succession of the several earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick castle.

58. A catalogue of the several pictures, statues, and busto's in the picture gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford ...

60. Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian artists in painting and sculpture : in a series of letters / by the Abbe Winkelman ...

61. Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois / par J.M. Papillon ... ; ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure ...

62. A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world.

64. Letters from Italy, describing the customs and manners of that country, in the years 1765, and 1766. To which is annexed, An admonition to gentlemen who pass the Alps, in their tour through Italy ...

65. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. In the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country ...

67. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

68. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

69. Original designs of temples, and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste. By Tho. Collins Overton.

71. George Stevens's celebrated lecture on heads; : which has been exhibited upwards of three hundred successive nights to crowded audiences, and met with the most universal applause.

73. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

76. Plan de la ville et foubourgs [sic] de York : capitale de la comté de meme nom / levé par le Sr. P. Chassereau ... ; avec les augmentationes jusqu'a l'an 1766.

77. British biography; or, An accurate and impartial account of the lives and writings of eminent persons, in Great Britain and Ireland; from Wickliff ... to the present time ...

78. The Life of Mr. James Quin, comedian, with the history of the stage from his commencing actor to his retreat to Bath ... To which is added a supplement of original facts and anecdotes ... together with his trial for the murder of Mr. Bowen.

79. British, Rococo frame

80. British, Neoclassical frame

81. British, Neoclassical frame

82. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

83. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

84. British, Neoclassical frame

85. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

86. British, Canted architrave moulding frame