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Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1773 January 29
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 23 x 38 cm, folded to 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22767534030008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
[1753]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22779332750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Credit Line:
22614588230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.
Creator:
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[6], 15, [5], 15, [1] p, [3], 2-17 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 53 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22963724000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
A fourth book, containing twelve imitations of drawings, of modern carriages : on a half inch scale to a foot.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 p., 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22846030990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.
Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1750-1752
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22862865370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
1796-1803
Physical Description:
1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22799215510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22875768140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709309620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The ladies history of England : from the descent of Julius Cæsar, to the summer of 1780 : calculated for the use of the ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland : and likewise adapted to general use, entertainment, and instruction / by Charlotte Cowley ...
Creator:
Cowley, Charlotte. no_linkage
Date:
1780 [i.e. 1781]
Physical Description:
vi, 7-704, [12] p., [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., maps. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the estate of Richard Moore, Esq., Kentwell Hall, Suffolk.
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 16 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22727380230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
[viii], 287, [305]-352 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897136400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...
Creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22822451250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) and eggs, with red currant (Ribes cf. rubrum L.) and Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae), both closed and open, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22624698420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Britannia illustrata, or, Views of all the palaces, several seats and other publick buildings of England, very neatly engrav'd = Les veües de les palais, et de diverses belles maisons, et d'aütres publiques batiments de l'Angleterre, graves fort curieusement.
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
[14] leaves : all ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22773910510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa), both open and closed, and Pupa (Lepidoptera Pieridae), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22741420690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Sepulchral monuments in Great Britain; applied to illustrate the history of families, manners, habits and arts, at the different periods from the Norman conquest to the seventeenth century. With introductory observations ...
Creator:
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809
Date:
1786-1796
Physical Description:
2 v. in 3. illus., plates (part fold.), geneal. tables (part fold.) 54 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes.
Creator:
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731–1802
Date:
MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22890642160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22783718530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The art of drawing without a master / from the French of the Sieur P.B.
Date:
[1768]
Physical Description:
[20] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22846708690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A general plan of the woods, park and gardens of Stowe, the seat of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham : with several perspective views in the gardens.
Creator:
Rigaud, Jacques, 1681–1754
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
16 sheets : illustrations ; 97 x 63 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22721909240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales, by Saml. and Nathl. Buck]
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1726-42
Physical Description:
9 v. 420 plates. 32 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...
Creator:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
x, [11]-80 p., [13] leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22757395590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
?Subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), male, and eggs, with strawberry (Fragaria L.), and Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), both closed and open, with wasp cocoon, ants and cocoons, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22741459430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent.
Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
3 p., 53 plates. 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22930752130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
XII views in aquatinta from drawings taken on the spot in South-Wales [graphic] : dedicated to the Honourable Charles Greville and Ioseph Banks Esquire / by their ever grateful and much obliged servant Paul Sandby, R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775-1776]
Physical Description:
39 prints in 1 album : aquatints with etching ; album 29 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22654701280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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 Rev.d Mr. Spence.
Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xii, 361, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., XLI pl. (part fold.) 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Double flower cultivar of Wood anemone (Anemone cf. nemorosa L. cultivar), with Painted handmaiden moth (Euchromia polymena), both open and closed, with Blister beetle / Spanish fly (Myalabris sp.), Sawyer beetle (?Monochamus sp.) and (Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22624748570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
The Iliad of Homer / translated by Mr. Pope ...
Creator:
Homer. no_linkage
Date:
1715-1720
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 28cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22961212890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Practical farriery, or, The complete directory : in whatever relates to the food, management, and cure of the diseases incident to horses ; the whole alphabetically digested, and illustrated with copper-plates / by John Blunt, surgeon, at Leominster, Hereforshire.
Creator:
Blunt, John, surgeon
Date:
MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:
viii, 316, [8] p., III leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22712177970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and eggs, with bramble (Rubus L.) and Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) and longhorned beetle (?Desmocerus sp.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22624677380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Exhibition of Miss Linwood's pictures in needle work : at the Hanover-Square concert rooms.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
[1798?]
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22794317690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in three parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ...
Creator:
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [5]-446 p., [65] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22829313210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.
Creator:
R. M. no_linkage
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 print on wove paper : aquatint ; plate mark 21 x 21 cm, on sheet 44 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22638024870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A plan of the city of Bristol / survey'd and drawn by John Rocque ; engraved by John Pine, 1742.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 100 x 228 cm., sheets 110 x 122 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Views of the cities of Westminster and London taken from the opposite bank of the Thames]
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
1 panorama on 5 sheets : engraving ; full panorama 31 x 395 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22742559650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The rice manufactury in China : from the originals brought from China.
Date:
[1770?]
Physical Description:
24 leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22757448430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22948829200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Vinters in Kent, a seat of James Whatman Esqr.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] leaves) : ill. ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22826542020008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava), male, with Marsh gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), common sawfly (Hymenoptera ?Tenthredinidae), and (Heliconius wallacei flavescens), Fluminense swallowtail (Parides ascanius) with shells, left and right, (Agaronia gibbosa Born, 1778), and center, (Voluta musica L. 1758), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22888627660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Chinese landskips.
Date:
[ca. 1752?]
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22775681700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The virtuosi's museum : containing select views, in England, Scotland and Ireland / drawn by P. Sandby, Esqr. R.A.
Creator:
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:
1778[-1781]
Physical Description:
[222] p., 108 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22809676930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A lady's ticket for the anniversary sermon of the Small Pox Hospital : to be preach'd by the Right Revd. the Lord Bishop of Worcester, at St. Andrew's Church, Holbourn, on Thursday the 5th of March, 1752 ... there will be a full band of vocal and instrumental musick by the first performers, to accompany the service at church.
Date:
[1752]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching, engraving ; plate mark 10 x 13 cm, on sheet 12 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22808368550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A plan of the palace gardens and town of Kensington ... = Plan du palais jardins et bourg de Kensington : situé à deux mile de Londres / par Jean Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[1736?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 28 x 48 cm., on sheet 39 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Defiance.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine, no_linkage
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 48 x 59 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22803291780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose.
Date:
[between 1761 and 1794]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22780497560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.
Creator:
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22762519900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Stowe, a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple : Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham.
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
54, [2] pages, [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22643112610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham and York. By James Paine ...
Creator:
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part double) plans (part double) 62 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22744313300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22871701190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
The English entomologist : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England : exhibiting all the coleopterous insects found in England, including upwards of 500 different specials, the figures of which have never before been given to the public : the whole accurately drawn & painted after nature / arranged and named according to the Linnean system by Thomas Martyn.
Creator:
Martyn, Thomas, fl. 1760–1816
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792, i.e. 1793]
Physical Description:
[4], 33, [1], 41, [5] p., [44] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22934966650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), with Northern dune tiger beetle (Cicindela ?hybrida), Leaf beetle (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), Flesh fly (Diptera Sarcophagidae), Wasp beetle (Clytus arietis), Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma throracica) and, Sexton or Burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator), with shell (Mauritia arabica) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22624678200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
London and Westminster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth anno dom. 1563 [cartographic material] / Radulphus Aggus.
Creator:
Agas, Ralph, 1545–1621
Date:
October 30th, 1789
Physical Description:
1 map ; 38 x 104 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709589860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The beauties of Stow, or, A description of the pleasant seat, and noble gardens, of the right honourable Lord Viscount Cobham : with above thirty designs, or drawings, engraved on copper-plates, of each particular building / by George Bickham.
Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
67 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22902681160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thirty different drafts of Guinea / by William Smith, Surveyor to the Royal African Company of England.
Creator:
Smith, William, surveyor
Date:
[not before 1727]
Physical Description:
30 leaves (1 folded) : chiefly ill., maps, plans (etchings) ; 28 x 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22843330240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Palmer mail coach token.
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; diameter 27 mm, depth 1 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22874301270008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.
Creator:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 84 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22759719610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Sutherland.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine, no_linkage
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 50 x 60 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22684913700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.
Date:
1728 April 8
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22913326700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Beauties of Stow, or, A description of the most noble house, gardens & magnificent buildings therein, of the Right Honorable Earl Temple, Viscount & Baron Cobham : with above thirty plates of each particular building, two views of the house, and a curious general plan of the whole gardens / by Geo. Bickham, engraver.
Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
[1753]
Physical Description:
67, [3] p., [31] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22902659990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Anecdotes of painting in England; with some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and digested and published from his original Mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]
Physical Description:
5 v. front. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22677485900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Indenture placing Elizabeth Richardson into the service of Jane Horam.
Date:
1769 January 4
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22810463060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22722270230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A new philosophico chorographical chart of East-Kent / invented and delineated by Christopher Packe, M.D.
Creator:
Packe, Christopher, 1686–1749
Date:
1743
Physical Description:
1 map : mounted on linen ; 122 x 140 cm., folded to 21 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the city and suburbs of Bristol / survey'd by John Rocque ... = Plan de la ville et faubourgs de Bristol / levé par Jean Rocque.
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 map ; 48 x 45 cm., on sheet 57 x 78 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The route of the mail & post coaches, George Boulton & Co. proprietors : which set out from the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, London, through the counties of Essex, Cambridge, Suffolk & Norfolk / V. Woodthorpe sc. 27 Fetter Lane.
Creator:
Boulton, George. no_linkage
Date:
[between 1796 and 1809]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 26 x 20 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22606087540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
?House wren (Troglodytes aedon) and eggs, with a specimen from the rose family (Rosaceae), Peacock butterflies (Nymphalis io), both closed and open, and butterfly chrysalis, larva caterpillar, daddy longlegs spider (Phalangida) egg case, and snout beetle, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22741439510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham = Vues des ruines des principaux batiments qui ont souffert dans les emeutes de Birmingham.
Creator:
Witton, Philip Henry. no_linkage
Date:
1791 [i.e. 1792]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22618128500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Copper-plate magazine, or Monthly cabinet of picturesque prints : consisting of sublime and interesting views in Great Britain and Ireland, beautifully engraved by the most eminent artists from the paintings and drawings of the first masters.
Date:
[1792-1802]
Physical Description:
5 v. (250 plates) : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22963719920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of usefull designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces and other decorations / by Wm. Jones ... ; part the first illustrated with 31 copper-plates neatly engraved.
Creator:
Jones, William, -1757
Date:
1736]
Physical Description:
[3], [31] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22614732940008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.
Creator:
Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
[44] leaves, [49] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22871837800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The ... Fashions of London and Paris.
Physical Description:
v. : ill. (hand-colored) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22918092480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An arithmetical pastime : intended to infuse the rudiments of arithmetic, under the idea of amusement.
Date:
April 19th, 1798
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 33 x 70 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22936287140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Twelve prints, representing the surprising events in the life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe [graphic].
Date:
publish'd as the act directs, 18 Jan. 1783
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection