Period: 19th century / Exhibition History: Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

1. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

Creator:: Charles Hunt, 1803–1877
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836

Creator:: Attributed to H. J. Aveling, active 1839–1842
Date:: exhibited 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 32 inches (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Ring O' Roses

Creator:: Thomas Webster, 1800–1886
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Design for the Frontspiece of the Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, Volume 1

Creator:: Print made by Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching hand-colored with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 1/16 inches (24.9 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. George Graham and His Wife, Margaret, Making a Balloon Ascent, London, 1823

Creator:: John Hayter, 1800–1895
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, white chalk, black chalk, brushed black ink, and watercolor on thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (37.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (11.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

7. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 7/8 inches (11.4 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

8. Ilustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 4 1/2in. (9.8 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

9. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 inches (11.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

10. Punch

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 9/16 inches (22.4 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A Lady Painting

Creator:: Sir Francis Grant, 1803–1878
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 x 4 15/16 inches (23.3 x 12.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 inches (22.2 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. A Picnic on Richmond Hill

Creator:: Joseph Murray Ince, 1806–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and gum, with scraping on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 7/8 inches (22.9 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Richmond from Twickenham Park

Creator:: Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 23 5/8in. (43.8 x 60cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

Creator:: George Johann Scharf, 1788–1860
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

Creator:: George Johann Scharf, 1788–1860
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Drinking Well in Hyde Park

Creator:: James Godby, 1767–1849
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. View of the Fair in Hyde Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A View of Frost Fair, on the Thames, February 1814

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Woodcut
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Printer's Advertisment for his Booth in Hyde Park Fair

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Letterpress
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Mountebank, 1844

Creator:: Robert Turner, active 1844
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 5/16 inches (14 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Specimens of Waltzing

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 13/16 inches (24.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Ascent of Balloon from Burlington House, Piccadilly, from the Window at Mr. B. Palmer's

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: after 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (24.1 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Minuet

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.5 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Regent's Park, London, The Colosseum, Clergy's Orphans' School and St. Andrew's Place, with Figures and Coaches

Creator:: Richard Morris, active 1830
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Pen in black ink with brown and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 1/8 inches (16.7 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Girl Reading a Book

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (27 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Weeke's Museum, Coventry Street, London

Creator:: Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, active 1803–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 1/8 inches (12.7 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Triumph of Music

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. [Trade Card] W. Lowe, Foreign & English Toy Warehouse

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

30. Sophy Steadman Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Lady Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. [Ticket for Box at the] Aquatic Theatre, Sadler's Wells, 1817

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. [Trade Card] S. & I. Fuller, Water Colour Paint Mfg., 34 Rathbone Place

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Foot Ball

Creator:: George Hunt, active 1820–1840
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 3/8in. (21 x 31.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Golfers. A Grand Match Player over St. Andrew's Links. By Sir David Baird...and Sir Ralph Anstruther...against Major Playfair and John Campbell.

Creator:: Charles E. Wagstaff, 1808–
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 36 7/8in. (64.8 x 93.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. [Golf] Henry Callender Esq're. To the Society of Goffers at Blackheath

Creator:: William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 16 13/16in. (64.8 x 42.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. [Patience in a Punt]

Creator:: William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: ca. 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 16 3/8in. (29.5 x 41.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Bowlers

Creator:: William Henry Simmons, 1811–1882
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, mainly stipple, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 x 31 1/8in. (48.6 x 79.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. May Day

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 12 9/16 inches (21.9 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Billiard Room

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 x 7 3/4 inches (11.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Butterfly Hunting

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches (13.3 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Guy Fawkes

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 12 1/2 inches (21.8 × 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Show

Creator:: Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:: after 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (22.3 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Conjurer with Pistol and Cards

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, watercolor, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 × 7 5/8 inches (13.2 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Juvenile Members of the Yacht Club

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (35.9 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Balloon

Creator:: Myles Birket Foster, 1825–1899
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/8 × 5 7/8 inches (7.3 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Mons Corvis' Troupe of Monkeys, Goats and Dogs, Military Execution

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Zincograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 26 1/4in. (50.3 x 66.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn

49. The Lending Library

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: between 1800 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink and brown ink on medium, lightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (17.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Blind-Man's Bluff

Creator:: Abraham Raimbach, 1784–1868
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Royal British Bowmen / This Plate representing the Meeting of the Royal British Bowmen in the Grounds of Erthig, Denbighshire ....

Creator:: William James Bennett, 1787–1844
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 15 1/2in. (30.5 x 39.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. View of the Naumachy Fireworks and Fair in Hyde Park in Honour of Peace

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 3/4in. (38.7 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. The Interior of the Fives Court with Randall and Turner Sparring

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 x 27 3/8in. (53.7 x 69.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. [Set of 10]: Social Subjects, Sports and Pastimes

Creator:: Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Bowls

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 13 3/4in. (9.8 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Skittles

Creator:: George Hunt, active 1820–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 15 3/4in. (30.5 x 40cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Bowling. North East View of the Sarecens [sic] Head Bowling Green, Worcester

Creator:: Joshua Gleadah, active 1830s
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 17 3/4in. (25.7 x 45.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Alphabet.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([26] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c.

Date:: [1809-1829]
Physical Description:: 41 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / by James Sowerby ... ; originally designed for the use of his pupils ...

A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / by James Sowerby ... ; originally designed for the use of his pupils ...

Creator:: Sowerby, James, 1757–1822
Date:: [1807?]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves, 10 leaves of plates : col. ill. 19 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life / by one of the wretched.

Creator:: Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833
Date:: March 1st 1807
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [17] leaves of plates : ill ; 20 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways. A humourous game.

Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: 1 sheet. 57 x 43 cm., fold. to 21 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.

Creator:: Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...

Date:: [1808-10]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : col. ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The noble game of the elephant and castle, or Travelling in Asia.

Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 game ; 51 x 41 cm. fold. to 17 x 14 cm. & booklet (viii, [9]-84 p. 14 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.

Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 36 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Glasgow looking glass.

Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A gentleman's park dissected.

Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 1 diorama (various pieces) : paper, col. and lead, col. ; in box, 13 x 18 x 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Fantascope : 2nd series / by T.T. Bury.

Creator:: Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 6 phenakistoscope discs ; each 25 cm, in case 26 x 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Musée des dames et des demoiselles : règne animal [--règne minéral--règne végétal].

Date:: [ca. 1825?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The elements of gymnastics for boys and of calisthenics for young ladies : illustrated by forty-three engravings / by Gustavus Hamilton ...

Creator:: Hamilton, Gustavus
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: vi, [7]-72 p., [43] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Snow-flakes and the stories they told the children / by M. Betham-Edwards ... ; illustrated by H.K. Browne.

Creator:: Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836–1919
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: 46, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Programme of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc, August, 12th & 13th 1851.

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 folding fan : ill. ; 24 x 40 cm. folded to 24 x 3 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.

A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.

Creator:: Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [2], lxi, [62]-113, [5] leaves, [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The costume of Great Britain / designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1804 [that is, not before 1819]
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [101] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror / by G.M. Woodward, Esqr., author of Eccentric excursions.

Date:: [1807-1821]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : all color illustrations ; 28 x 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Album of animal drawings and lithographs.

Date:: 1832-1834
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([9] leaves, with many blanks) : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A concise account of the surprising feats achieved by Signor M. Girmondi's wonderful performing dogs, lately arrived from Paris, Lisbon, Vienna, Madrid, &c. &c. : to which are annexed a brief sketch of their species, a few lines addressed to the proprietor : an anecdote, &c. &c. : with a correct engraving prefixed of their various attitudes.

A concise account of the surprising feats achieved by Signor M. Girmondi's wonderful performing dogs, lately arrived from Paris, Lisbon, Vienna, Madrid, &c. &c. : to which are annexed a brief sketch of their species, a few lines addressed to the proprietor : an anecdote, &c. &c. : with a correct engraving prefixed of their various attitudes.

Creator:: Girmondi, M
Physical Description:: 18 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book : comprising alphabet of fruits, country alphabet, London alphabet, alphabet of games & sports / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Evans and Kronheim.

Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book : comprising alphabet of fruits, country alphabet, London alphabet, alphabet of games & sports / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Evans and Kronheim.

Creator:: Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899
Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: [58] leaves : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

Creator:: Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Graphic illustrations of the Colosseum, Regent's Park, in five plates / from drawings by Gandy, Mackenzie, and other eminent artists.

Date:: MDCCCXXIX [1829]
Physical Description:: 5 prints in 1 volume : aquatint, etching ; sheets 43 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The Linwood gallery of pictures in needle-work : with a biographical sketch of the painters.

Creator:: Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-71, [1] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Court game of geography.

Date:: [between 1838 and 1855]
Physical Description:: 1 game (52 cards) : hand colored illustrations, hand colored maps ; cards 10 x 7cm + 1 booklet (32 pages)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The habit makes the man = L'habit forme l'homme.

Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 1 game (26 pieces) : paper, col. ; in case, 12 x 8 x 2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 42 pictures on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 360 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Wallis's picturesque round game of the produce & manufactures, of the counties of England & Wales.

Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 1 col. sheet. 66 x 51 cm. fold. to 18 x 14 cm. & booklet (20 p.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The Comic almanack : an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing merry tales, humorous poetry, quips, and oddities / by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert À Beckett, the brothers Mayhew ... with many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.

Date:: 1834?-1852?]
Physical Description:: 19 v. ill. ; 14-17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

89. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The English spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank ...

Creator:: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:: 1825-1826
Physical Description:: 2 v. col. front., ill., col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Poetical sketches of Scarborough: illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot by J. Green, and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Creator:: Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775–1847
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 4 p.., xv, 215 p. 21 col. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Forfeitiana, or, An elegant budget of winter evening's recreation for young persons / written by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 34 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

Creator:: Member of the Save-all Club
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Souvenirs de Londres.

Creator:: Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800–1890
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Chinese caricatures, or Puzzles representing the human figure, being each composed of the seven pieces used in Chinese puzzles, no. 1 [-3], designed by a young lady, and engraved by Miss Lowry ...

Creator:: Varley, Delvalle Lowry
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 3 pts. plates. 10 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engravings from drawings by J. Dugourc, draughtsman to His Majesty, the King of France : accompanied by descriptions translated from the French of Mademoiselle St. Sernin and interspersed with original poetry and anecdotes.

Creator:: St. Sernin, Mademoiselle
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: iv, 72 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; to which is added, An essay on satire ; embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq.

Creator:: Stevens, George Alexander, 1710–1784
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: ix, [3], 96 p., [25] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The modern English boxer, or, Scientific art and practice of attack and self defence : explained in an easy manner that any person may comprehend this useful art without the aid of a master with descriptions of correct pugilistic attitudes as practised by the most celebrated boxers of the present day / by A. Pugilist.

Creator:: Pugilist, A
Date:: 1847?]
Physical Description:: 20, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The three jovial huntsmen : one of R. Caldecott's picture books.

Creator:: Caldecott, Randolph, 1846–1886
Date:: [1880]
Physical Description:: 30 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: fold. col. plate. 18 x 31 cm. fold. to 18 x 8 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

2. First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836

3. Ring O' Roses

4. Design for the Frontspiece of the Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, Volume 1

5. George Graham and His Wife, Margaret, Making a Balloon Ascent, London, 1823

6. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

7. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

8. Ilustration for The New Doll: Untitled

9. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

10. Punch

11. A Lady Painting

12. Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford

13. A Picnic on Richmond Hill

14. Richmond from Twickenham Park

15. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

16. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

17. The Drinking Well in Hyde Park

18. View of the Fair in Hyde Park

19. A View of Frost Fair, on the Thames, February 1814

20. Printer's Advertisment for his Booth in Hyde Park Fair

21. Mountebank, 1844

22. Specimens of Waltzing

23. Ascent of Balloon from Burlington House, Piccadilly, from the Window at Mr. B. Palmer's

24. A Minuet

25. Regent's Park, London, The Colosseum, Clergy's Orphans' School and St. Andrew's Place, with Figures and Coaches

26. Girl Reading a Book

27. Weeke's Museum, Coventry Street, London

28. The Triumph of Music

29. [Trade Card] W. Lowe, Foreign & English Toy Warehouse

30. Sophy Steadman Reading

31. A Lady Reading

32. [Ticket for Box at the] Aquatic Theatre, Sadler's Wells, 1817

33. [Trade Card] S. & I. Fuller, Water Colour Paint Mfg., 34 Rathbone Place

34. Foot Ball

35. The Golfers. A Grand Match Player over St. Andrew's Links. By Sir David Baird...and Sir Ralph Anstruther...against Major Playfair and John Campbell.

36. [Golf] Henry Callender Esq're. To the Society of Goffers at Blackheath

37. [Patience in a Punt]

38. The Bowlers

39. May Day

40. The Billiard Room

41. Butterfly Hunting

42. Guy Fawkes

43. The Show

44. Conjurer with Pistol and Cards

45. Juvenile Members of the Yacht Club

46. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation

47. The Balloon

48. Mons Corvis' Troupe of Monkeys, Goats and Dogs, Military Execution

49. The Lending Library

50. Blind-Man's Bluff

51. Royal British Bowmen / This Plate representing the Meeting of the Royal British Bowmen in the Grounds of Erthig, Denbighshire ....

52. View of the Naumachy Fireworks and Fair in Hyde Park in Honour of Peace

53. The Interior of the Fives Court with Randall and Turner Sparring

54. [Set of 10]: Social Subjects, Sports and Pastimes

55. Bowls

56. Skittles

57. Bowling. North East View of the Sarecens [sic] Head Bowling Green, Worcester

58. Alphabet.

59. The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c.

60. A botanical drawing-book, or, An easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature / by James Sowerby ... ; originally designed for the use of his pupils ...

61. Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life / by one of the wretched.

62. The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways. A humourous game.

63. A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.

64. The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...

65. The noble game of the elephant and castle, or Travelling in Asia.

66. Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.

67. Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.

68. Glasgow looking glass.

69. A gentleman's park dissected.

70. Fantascope : 2nd series / by T.T. Bury.

71. Musée des dames et des demoiselles : règne animal [--règne minéral--règne végétal].

72. The elements of gymnastics for boys and of calisthenics for young ladies : illustrated by forty-three engravings / by Gustavus Hamilton ...

73. Snow-flakes and the stories they told the children / by M. Betham-Edwards ... ; illustrated by H.K. Browne.

74. Programme of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc, August, 12th & 13th 1851.