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
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/2 × 34 1/2 inches (110.5 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Nancy Parsons in Turkish dress

Creator:: George Willison, 1741–1797
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

3. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

4. Paetus and Arria

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

5. Daniel Cunyngham

Creator:: Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: Francis Cotes, 1726–1770
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: Joseph Wilton, 1722–1803
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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
On View:: Not on view

8. Chairing the Members

Creator:: after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1766
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

9. The Polling

Creator:: after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1766
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

10. Castell Dinas Brân, Wales

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

11. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: Nathaniel Hone, 1718–1784
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

12. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Charles Phillips, 1737– after 1783
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

13. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

14. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: 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

15. Travellers in Turkey

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: 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

16. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

18. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

19. The Boy and Pigeons

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

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

Creator:: Print made by Johann Gottfried Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

21. The Italian Bird Catcher

Creator:: Print made by Johnson, active 1766
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

22. Mr. Frodsham in the Character of Hamlet

Creator:: Edward Williams, c.1750–1800
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

23. Rev. Zachariah Mudge, D.D.

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

24. Mr. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 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
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

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

27. Beatrice, Hero and Ursula

Creator:: John Jones, ca. 1745–1797
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

31. The New Bridge, Blackfriars, London

Creator:: Robert Baldwin, active 1763–1769
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

32. A View of the Lawn from the Palace, with the Pagoda, The Temple of Victory, and the Colonade in the Royal Gardens at Kew

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 1/4in. (36.8 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Kew: The White House from the Lawn

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 14 1/2 x 21 1/4in. (36.8 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

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

37. Jacob Bates / The Famous English Horse Rider

Creator:: Georg Paul Nusbiegel, 1713–1776
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

39. Sir Jeffery Amherst

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

40. Matlock High-Torr

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

41. Vincentius Marinelli

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: c.1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engravng and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

44. William Drummond of Hawthornden

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

45. Matthew Darly

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

46. Oxford Physic Garden

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Green, ca. 1736–ca. 1800
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

47. The French Lady in London

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: 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

48. 'Gimcrack'

Creator:: William Pether, ca. 1738–1821
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

49. The Right Honourable Lady Mary Leslie

Creator:: John Spilsbury, 1730–1795
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

50. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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.

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

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. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. 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

81. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

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

82. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

83. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

84. British, Neoclassical frame

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

85. British Neoclassical 'Romney' frame

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

86. British, Neoclassical frame

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

87. British Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

88. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

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

89. British, Rococo frame

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

90. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

91. British, Neoclassical frame

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

92. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

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

93. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame component

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

94. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

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

96. British, 'Carlo Maratta' frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

97. British, Neoclassical frame

Creator:: unknown framemaker
Date:: last third of 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

2. Nancy Parsons in Turkish dress

3. Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

4. Paetus and Arria

5. Daniel Cunyngham

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

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

8. Chairing the Members

9. The Polling

10. Castell Dinas Brân, Wales

11. Portrait of a Lady

12. Venus and Cupid

13. Portrait of a Gentleman

14. Design for a Country House

15. Travellers in Turkey

16. Design for a Country House

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

18. Celadon and Amelia

19. The Boy and Pigeons

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

21. The Italian Bird Catcher

22. Mr. Frodsham in the Character of Hamlet

23. Rev. Zachariah Mudge, D.D.

24. Mr. Thomas Gray

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

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

27. Beatrice, Hero and Ursula

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

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

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

31. The New Bridge, Blackfriars, London

32. A View of the Lawn from the Palace, with the Pagoda, The Temple of Victory, and the Colonade in the Royal Gardens at Kew

33. Kew: The White House from the Lawn

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

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

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

37. Jacob Bates / The Famous English Horse Rider

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

39. Sir Jeffery Amherst

40. Matlock High-Torr

41. Vincentius Marinelli

42. Celadon and Amelia

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

44. William Drummond of Hawthornden

45. Matthew Darly

46. Oxford Physic Garden

47. The French Lady in London

48. 'Gimcrack'

49. The Right Honourable Lady Mary Leslie

50. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

51. 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.

54. 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 ...

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

59. 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.

60. 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.

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

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

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

65. 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 ...

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

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

71. 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 ...

72. 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 ...

73. 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.

74. 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 ...

77. 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.

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

80. 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.

81. British 'Carlo Maratta' frame

82. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

83. British, Canted architrave moulding frame

84. British, Neoclassical frame

85. British Neoclassical 'Romney' frame

86. British, Neoclassical frame