Date: 1755 - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

201. Boatman in a Punt

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 7/8 inches (18.7 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

202. Portrait of a Young Man taken from the Life, facing right

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/4 × 2 3/16 inches (5.7 × 5.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

203. Portrait of a Woman taken from life, facing right

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 7/8 × 1 9/16 inches (4.8 × 4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

204. The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire: Elevations and Details of a Gateway

Creator:: Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796
Date:: ca. 1760-1764
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

205. Deuxième Suite des Figures

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

206. A Sea Port in Italy

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

207. A Ferry on the River Severn

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

208. Figures by a stream with cattle watering

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

209. Welsh Peasant Women

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 4 9/16 × 3 3/8 inches (11.6 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

210. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

211. At Sheerness

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

212. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

213. Deuxième Suite des Figures

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

214. Deuxième Suite des Figures

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

215. Deuxième Suite des Figures

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

216. Deuxième Suite des Figures

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

217. New Radnor

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (16.8 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

218. The Entrance into Borrowdale

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (9.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

219. On the Side of the Rhine near the Source, Light Coming from the Right

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown wash and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches (28.3 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

220. On the Dee

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 19 inches (29.8 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

221. View in Borrowdale of Eagle Crag and Rosthwaite

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches (21.3 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

222. Werrington Park, Devonshire

Creator:: attributed to Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black and brown ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 inches (24.4 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

223. None

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: between 1755 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: 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

224. Advertisement for Rich Arkwright Peruke Maker Hair Cutter &c in Bolton, Lancashire

Creator:: Print made by W. Barlow, active ca. 1760
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

225. A Perspective View of the Palace of the King of Prussia

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: 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

226. Saltram, Lord Boringdon's House at Plymouth

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 in. (21.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

227. The Portrature of Sedbury

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

228. The Portraiture of Lamprey

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

229. The Portraiture of Dormouse

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

230. The Portraiture of the Famous Horse Old Partner

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

231. The Portraiture of Crab, Late the Property of the Right Honorable Earl of Portmore

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

232. A Perspective View of Workshop Mannor, a Seat of the Duke of Norfolk's

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (20 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

233. Childers, the Fleetest Horse that Ever Run at Newmarket

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

234. Study of Two Willows

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brushed brown ink, yellowish-brown ground and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 3/8 inches (10.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

235. Old Lady with Basket of flowers

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 inches (26.4 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

236. A Woman Seated

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (32.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

237. Study of a Cow

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1755 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (14.3 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

238. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto contemporary (wash-line) mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (27 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

239. Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Nine portraits in graphite of horses mounted on pages; pen and ink and gray wash drawings of cattle and horses in landscapes on inside of covers; and pen and ink and gray wash drawing of cattle and horses in landscape mounted on loose sheet.
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4in. (14 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

240. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

Creator:: Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1727–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

241. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

Creator:: Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1727–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 inches (28.9 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

242. Mrs. Irwin

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (33.7 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

243. Lady Charlotte Johnstone

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 10 11/16 inches (38.1 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

244. Charles Lucas M.D.

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16 inches (34 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

245. Henrietta Catherine Cholmley (née Croft)

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 5/16 inches (39.1 × 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

246. Tranquilité champêtre

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2in. (27.6 x 21.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

247. La Bonne Petite Soeur

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 8 1/4in. (27 x 21cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

248. Book of horse portraits

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Nine portraits in graphite of horses mounted on pages; pen and ink and gray wash drawings of cattle and horses in landscapes on inside of covers; and pen and ink and gray wash drawing of cattle and horses in landscape mounted on loose sheet.
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4in. (14 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

249. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. Jame's Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

250. Mary Bertie, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 15/16 × 15 1/2 inches (63.3 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

251. A View on the River Sienne

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

252. A Man Leaning on a Staff

Creator:: Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately textured laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 22 7/8 × 18 1/4 × 2 inches (58.1 × 46.4 × 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

253. The Recruiting Serjeant

Creator:: Engraved by John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 21 1/4in. (42.5 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

254. A Port and Castle on the Welch Coast

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

255. A View of Marseilles

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

256. Fishing on the British Coast

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

257. Fishing on the French Coast

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

258. An English Sea Port

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

259. An Island on the English Coast

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

260. High Land on the British Coast

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

261. Sailing Out of the Port of Flushing

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

262. Going into the Port of Flushing

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Smith, ca. 1745–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

263. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

Creator:: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. front., plates, diagrs. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

264. A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.

Creator:: Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22637301050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

265. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22960500740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

266. A scenographic plan of the city of the kings : otherwise called Lima, the capital of the kingdoms of Peru ... as it was before the late earthquakes.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 37 x 53 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

267. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters, ... &c : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22759743260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

268. Resolutions of the Select Society.

Creator:: Select Society
Date:: 1755]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 10 p.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22759721480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

270. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

271. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22977007660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

272. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

273. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22897120730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

274. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

Creator:: Méhégan, Guillaume-Alexandre de, 1721–1766
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 282, 24, 18, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. Letters concerning taste ...

Creator:: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723–1769
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 143 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

276. A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D. D.

Creator:: Dalton, John, 1709–1763
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: viii, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

277. Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou Abregé de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poésie & la musique; avec la définition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. Lacombe.

Creator:: Lacombe, Jacques, 1724–1811
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 p.., vi, 758, [2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

278. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : 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:: Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22897063190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

279. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

Date:: November 29, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

280. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22625067890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

281. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

282. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22931446860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

283. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

284. L'état des arts, en Angleterre.

Creator:: Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 211 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

285. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

Creator:: Janneck, Franz Christoph
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 368, [14] p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

286. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi, 361, [1] p., : port., ill., XLI pl. (part fold.) ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

287. An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game, in relation to the selling or offering to sale any game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [2], 335-336 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

288. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

289. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22719153970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

290. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22936592770008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

291. The life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. By William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: M.DCC.LV
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 197, [5] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

292. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

293. The art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

294. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: 22614573550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

295. Theron and Aspasio: or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... By James Hervey ...

Creator:: Hervey, James, 1714–1758
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

296. The present state of the arts in England, by M. Rouquet [translated from the French].

Creator:: Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: [30], vi, 136 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

297. A dictionary of the English language / Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: ca. 1350 p. in various pagings ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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201. Boatman in a Punt

202. Portrait of a Young Man taken from the Life, facing right

203. Portrait of a Woman taken from life, facing right

204. The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire: Elevations and Details of a Gateway

205. Deuxième Suite des Figures

206. A Sea Port in Italy

207. A Ferry on the River Severn

208. Figures by a stream with cattle watering

209. Welsh Peasant Women

210. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

211. At Sheerness

212. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

213. Deuxième Suite des Figures

214. Deuxième Suite des Figures

215. Deuxième Suite des Figures

216. Deuxième Suite des Figures

217. New Radnor

218. The Entrance into Borrowdale

219. On the Side of the Rhine near the Source, Light Coming from the Right

220. On the Dee

221. View in Borrowdale of Eagle Crag and Rosthwaite

222. Werrington Park, Devonshire

223. None

224. Advertisement for Rich Arkwright Peruke Maker Hair Cutter &c in Bolton, Lancashire

225. A Perspective View of the Palace of the King of Prussia

226. Saltram, Lord Boringdon's House at Plymouth

227. The Portrature of Sedbury

228. The Portraiture of Lamprey

229. The Portraiture of Dormouse

230. The Portraiture of the Famous Horse Old Partner

231. The Portraiture of Crab, Late the Property of the Right Honorable Earl of Portmore

232. A Perspective View of Workshop Mannor, a Seat of the Duke of Norfolk's

233. Childers, the Fleetest Horse that Ever Run at Newmarket

234. Study of Two Willows

235. Old Lady with Basket of flowers

236. A Woman Seated

237. Study of a Cow

238. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

239. Horse

240. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

241. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

242. Mrs. Irwin

243. Lady Charlotte Johnstone

244. Charles Lucas M.D.

245. Henrietta Catherine Cholmley (née Croft)

246. Tranquilité champêtre

247. La Bonne Petite Soeur

248. Book of horse portraits

249. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. Jame's Park

250. Mary Bertie, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven

251. A View on the River Sienne

252. A Man Leaning on a Staff

253. The Recruiting Serjeant

254. A Port and Castle on the Welch Coast

255. A View of Marseilles

256. Fishing on the British Coast

257. Fishing on the French Coast

258. An English Sea Port

259. An Island on the English Coast

260. High Land on the British Coast

261. Sailing Out of the Port of Flushing

262. Going into the Port of Flushing

263. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

264. A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.

266. A scenographic plan of the city of the kings : otherwise called Lima, the capital of the kingdoms of Peru ... as it was before the late earthquakes.

268. Resolutions of the Select Society.

269. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

270. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

273. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

274. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

275. Letters concerning taste ...

276. A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D. D.

277. Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou Abregé de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poésie & la musique; avec la définition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. Lacombe.

280. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

281. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.