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1. Pit Ticket

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

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

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
Date:
1759
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Representation of the Glarious Defeat of the French Fleet off Belleisle on the 20 November 1759
Creator:
Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1759
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Sansome Fields near Worcester, the Seat of Charles Trubshaw Withers, Esquire

Sansome Fields near Worcester, the Seat of Charles Trubshaw Withers, Esquire
Creator:
Victor Marie Picot, 1744–1805
Date:
undated
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Lord Camden

Lord Camden
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, Baroness Percy, Lucy, Poynings, Fitzpain, Bryan, and Latimer
Creator:
Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:
1759
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

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

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

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

9. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

13. 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.

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

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

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

15. 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.

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

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

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

17. 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 ...

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

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

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

19. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Decker, Paul
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The art of painting in oil ...

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

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

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

22. 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.

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

23. 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.

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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

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

No cover image available
Date:
[1759-1771]
Physical Description:
21 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold., part col.) ports., maps. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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.

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

26. 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 ...

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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

27. 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.

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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

28. 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.

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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

29. 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.

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

30. 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.

No cover image available
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

31. [Sir Joshua Reynolds' sitter-book]

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