Exhibition History: Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) / Image Available: Available

101. Entrance to Pidcock's Exhibition Tent at a Fair

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 12 3/4in. (35.7 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

102. 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

103. 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

104. Games at Vauxhall: Playing at Cricket

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 13/16 inches (26.7 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

105. Leap-Frog

Creator:: L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching, re-issue of print originally published 1743-44
Dimensions:: Plate: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

106. The Exercise of See Saw

Creator:: L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

107. Hall's Library at Margate

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 13/16in. (30.5 x 47.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

108. 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

109. St. James's Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

110. Building Houses with Cards

Creator:: Print made by L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 13 7/8in. (28.3 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

111. Comforts of Bath: The Bath

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 1/8 inches (11 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

112. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

113. A Perspective View of the Bowling Green &c. at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, a seat of Sr. Jeremy Sambrooke Bart.

Creator:: Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 17in. (24.4 x 43.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

114. Winter Amusement: A View in Hyde Park from the Moated House

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, printed in color and colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 3/8in. (31.4 x 39.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

115. [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

116. [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

117. 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

118. The Angling Party

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray ink, over graphite, border with pen and gray brown ink line on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 10 3/16 inches (17.5 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

119. Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches (14.3 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

120. 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

121. Checkmate

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

122. 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

123. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

124. Ticket for the Brandenbourg House Masquerade

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (12.4 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

125. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (47 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

126. 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

127. Elegant Company Dancing

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and red-brown, red, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (11.4 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

128. A Punch and Judy Show

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

129. Female Dancer with a Tambourine

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, wove paper, mounted on thick, moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 x 8 11/16 inches (29.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

130. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

131. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 inches (41.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

132. Foot Ball played at Market Place, Barnet

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

133. Coits Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

134. Trap Ball Played at the Black Prince, Newington, Butts

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

135. Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

136. Four Corners Played at the Swan, Chelsea

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

137. Cricket played by the Gentlemens Club, Whiteconduit House

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

138. 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

139. 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

140. Winter

Creator:: Richard Corbould, 1757–1831
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 inches (17.1 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

141. Conquering a Chromatic Passage

Creator:: Attributed to Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 12 5/8 inches (26.4 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

142. A Nurse with Three Children

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches (15.6 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

143. A Man doing the Splits

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1760 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

144. 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

145. The Peep Show

Creator:: Attributed to George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 12 5/8 inches (20 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

146. 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

147. 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

148. 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

149. 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

150. A Picnic: Two Ladies and a Gentleman

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, brown wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (21.9 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

151. 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

152. Miss Templeton, Mr. Holworthy and Miss Crewe, Sketching in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Attributed to James Holworthy, 1780–1841
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 7/8 inches (12.7 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

153. The Fair at Cheltenham

Creator:: Edward Eyre, active 1771–1792
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 15 1/8 inches (24.4 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

154. Alphabet.

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

155. 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

156. Views ... of the gardens of the Zoological Society in Regent's Park.

Creator:: Hakewill, James
Date:: 1831
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

158. 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

159. The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [144] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Glasgow looking glass.

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

161. 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

162. 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

163. 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

164. Airopaidia : containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage : hints on the improvement of balloons, and mode of inflation by steam : means to prevent their descent over water : occasional enquiries into the state of the atmosphere, favouring their direction : with various philosophical observations and conjectures. To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain : with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation : with a copious index / by Thomas Baldwin, Esq. A. M.

Airopaidia : containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage : hints on the improvement of balloons, and mode of inflation by steam : means to prevent their descent over water : occasional enquiries into the state of the atmosphere, favouring their direction : with various philosophical observations and conjectures. To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain : with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation : with a copious index / by Thomas Baldwin, Esq. A. M.

Creator:: Baldwin, Thomas
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [3], viii, [1], 360 [i.e. 361], [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

166. 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

167. [Transparent prints].

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 6 prints : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets 52 x 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. 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

169. The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

Creator:: Laroon, Marcellus, 1653–1702
Date:: 1711
Physical Description:: [74] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. [The Popish Plot]

Date:: [1679?]
Physical Description:: 52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. 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

172. 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

173. 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

174. 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

175. 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

176. 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

177. 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

178. 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

179. 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

180. 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

181. 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

182. 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

183. 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

184. Gallery of fashion.

Creator:: Von Heideloff
Date:: 1794-1802
Physical Description:: 3 v.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

Creator:: Tomlinson, Kellom
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [22], 159, [1] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. 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

187. 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

188. 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

189. 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

190. 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

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101. Entrance to Pidcock's Exhibition Tent at a Fair

102. The Triumph of Music

103. Punch

104. Games at Vauxhall: Playing at Cricket

105. Leap-Frog

106. The Exercise of See Saw

107. Hall's Library at Margate

108. A Lady Reading

109. St. James's Park

110. Building Houses with Cards

111. Comforts of Bath: The Bath

112. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

113. A Perspective View of the Bowling Green &c. at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, a seat of Sr. Jeremy Sambrooke Bart.

114. Winter Amusement: A View in Hyde Park from the Moated House

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

116. [Patience in a Punt]

117. The Bowlers

118. The Angling Party

119. Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room

120. Butterfly Hunting

121. Checkmate

122. The Billiard Room

123. Vauxhall Gardens

124. Ticket for the Brandenbourg House Masquerade

125. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

126. The Show

127. Elegant Company Dancing

128. A Punch and Judy Show

129. Female Dancer with a Tambourine

130. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

131. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

132. Foot Ball played at Market Place, Barnet

133. Coits Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common

134. Trap Ball Played at the Black Prince, Newington, Butts

135. Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields

136. Four Corners Played at the Swan, Chelsea

137. Cricket played by the Gentlemens Club, Whiteconduit House

138. May Day

139. Guy Fawkes

140. Winter

141. Conquering a Chromatic Passage

142. A Nurse with Three Children

143. A Man doing the Splits

144. Conjurer with Pistol and Cards

145. The Peep Show

146. The Lending Library

147. Juvenile Members of the Yacht Club

148. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Suspense or Expectation

149. The Balloon

150. A Picnic: Two Ladies and a Gentleman

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

152. Miss Templeton, Mr. Holworthy and Miss Crewe, Sketching in a Wooded Landscape

153. The Fair at Cheltenham

154. Alphabet.

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

156. Views ... of the gardens of the Zoological Society in Regent's Park.

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

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

159. The temple of taste : comprising elegant historical engravings : also, views of the principal buildings in London : also, a select variety of elegant and amusing subjects : with the histories, and other connected information, at large, by the best artists, designers and engravers.

160. Glasgow looking glass.

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

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

163. 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.

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

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

167. [Transparent prints].

168. 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 ...

169. The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

170. [The Popish Plot]

171. A gentleman's park dissected.

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

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

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

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