On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Exhibition History: Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)

1. 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

2. 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

3. [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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. [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

21. 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

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. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. [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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. [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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. [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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. [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

53. 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

54. 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

55. Alphabet.

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

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. Glasgow looking glass.

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

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

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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

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

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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

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. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. Arithmetical lottery : a new amusing and instructive game of exercises in multiplication.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 1 game (instruction sheet, cards) : paper, col. ; in box, 22 x 14 x 2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Changeable portraits of gentlemen.

Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 84 pieces (ports.) 9 x 7 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. 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

87. Nuts to crack; or, Enigmatical repository; containing nearly 250 hieroglyphics, enigmas, conundrums, curious puzzles, and other ingenious devices.

Date:: [between 1830 and 1834]
Physical Description:: broadside. ill. 51 x 38 cm., fold. to 14 x 10 cm. & booklet (15, [1] p.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. 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

89. 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

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

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. The protean figure and metamorphic costumes.

Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 91 pieces. col. ill. 2-21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. [My wife]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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1. Weeke's Museum, Coventry Street, London

2. Girl Reading a Book

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

4. The Triumph of Music

5. A Picnic on Richmond Hill

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

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

8. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

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

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

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

12. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

13. Ilustration for The New Doll: Untitled

14. Mountebank, 1844

15. A Lady Painting

16. Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford

17. A Minuet

18. Sophy Steadman Reading

19. A Lady Reading

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

21. Foot Ball

22. Specimens of Waltzing

23. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

24. Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park

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

26. The Drinking Well in Hyde Park

27. View of the Fair in Hyde Park

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

29. Richmond from Twickenham Park

30. Punch

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

32. [Patience in a Punt]

33. The Bowlers

34. 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.

35. The Billiard Room

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

37. Butterfly Hunting

38. May Day

39. The Show

40. Guy Fawkes

41. Conjurer with Pistol and Cards

42. The Lending Library

43. Juvenile Members of the Yacht Club

44. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation

45. The Balloon

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

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

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

49. Blind-Man's Bluff

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

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

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

53. Skittles

54. Bowls

55. Alphabet.

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

57. 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 ...

58. 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.

59. Glasgow looking glass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

73. Court game of geography.

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