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Letter to John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Date:
1797, between January 16 and March 23
Physical Description:
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Antiquities of Ionia, by the Society of dilettanti. [pt. 1]-5.
Creator:
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Date:
1769-1915
Physical Description:
5 v. illus., plates, maps, plans, diagrs. 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mrs. Stewart's concert Hanover Square.
Date:
[1789]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching ; sheet 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].
Creator:
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:
approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for building expenses.
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 11 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party.
Date:
between 1792 and 1818?
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 8 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William's return.
Date:
[18th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustration ; 22 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letters of administration of William Morgan.
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A journal of a voyage to Madrass : in the year of our Lord Christ, 1761 : manuscript / by Richard Rose, Leiutenant [sic] in the 96th Regiment of Foot.
Creator:
Rose, Richard, 1728–1770
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
1 volume ([6], 80 pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indenture placing James Harris into the service of Anthony Harison, goldsmith.
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Iter boreale, or, The northern expedition : commencing 10 July 1732, ending 18 Augt. 1732.
Creator:
Tracy, Thomas
Date:
1732
Physical Description:
1 volume (60 pages) : pen and black ink ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Will of Patrick Lynch.
Creator:
Lynch, Richard, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Select meditations and reflections on death : with other select pieces.
Creator:
Salisbury, W. T
Date:
circa 1782-1792
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 300 pages) ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Date:
not before 1787
Physical Description:
1 fob seal : gilding over copper or copper alloy, cornelian-colored glass ; face 31 x 24 mm, depth 43 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Charles Miller's habit and gown-warehouse, at the Crown and Cushion, in Tavistock-Street : where gentlemen and ladies may be furnish'd as usual.
Date:
[1748]]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Monsieur Nattes, no. 41, Charles Street, Westminster.
Creator:
Nattes, John Claude, 1765?-1822
Date:
[approximately 1781?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 95 x 95 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.
Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
circa 1790
Physical Description:
1 v. (44 leaves, with blanks) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt for the purchase of a sedan chair by W. Murdoch of Madeira, London, 1788]
Creator:
Holmes & Griffin (Firm : London, England)
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 21 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Joseph Wright notebook.
Creator:
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:
1775-1780
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
The magic ring : a new game : replete with humour and pleasant variety.
Date:
November 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 42 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
Date:
not before 1787
Physical Description:
1 signet ring : gold with red stone (jasper?) ; face 28 x 21 mm, band 25 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
English lotteries, 1569-1826.
Date:
mostly 18th-19th c
Physical Description:
1 albums (139 items) ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt by John Lingley, for the purchase of beer by Captain Richey, 1783].
Creator:
Lingley, John (Brewer)
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 77 x 172 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wallis's tour of Europe : a new geographical pastime / McIntyre sculpsit.
Date:
Nov. 24th, 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 46 x 50 cm, on sheet 49 x 70 cm, folded to 17 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
[Billhead of John Roberts, hosier, London, recording purchases by B. Buggin].
Creator:
Roberts, John (Hosier)
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sir Joseph Banks's fishery book of the River Witham in Lincolnshire.
Creator:
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 1744–1818
Date:
1784-1800
Physical Description:
2 v. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
Date:
12th May 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Christopher Corrall and Daniel Blachford, gold and silver lacemen, London, for purchases made by Barrington Buggin Esq., May 13th, 1772.
Creator:
Corrall, Christopher, active 1772
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
Date:
September 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]
Creator:
Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 16 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A survey of the man[o]r of Graney : situat'd in the county of Kildare, belonging to the Right Honble. James Earl of Kildare / by Jno. Rocque ...
Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], 14, [13] leaves, bound) : ms., 14 col. maps ; 54 x 75 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt by Nicholas Watson, on behalf of his mother Ann Watson, for the purchase of coffee and sugar by Mrs. De Sausmarez, 1793].
Creator:
Watson, Nicholas, active 1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 70 x 164 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The soldier's return.
Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 23 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Creator:
Orme, Daniel, 1766–1837
Date:
[between 1792 and 1797]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Tygress.

Tygress.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
ca. 1798
Physical Description:
1 needlework picture : wool ; image 46 x 59 cm, in frame 61 x 74 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jug with hunting scenes after George Stubbs.
Creator:
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Date:
ca. 1780
Physical Description:
1 jug : Queen's ware, cream-colored earthenware ; 22 x 23 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson
A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Will of Patrick Collins.
Creator:
Collins, Patrick, -1781
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Selections from George Edwards' A natural history of uncommon birds : with additional watercolors and engravings by Eleazar Albin.
Creator:
Edwards, George, 1694–1773
Date:
approximately 1746
Physical Description:
1 volume (53 leaves, with blanks) : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.
Creator:
Lloyd, Mr., active 1795
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 x 42 cm, folded to 25 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1773
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1788 August 19-1798 April 6
Physical Description:
1 v. ([18] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1794-1796
Physical Description:
1 volume ([4], 85, [57] pages) (many pages blank) ; 41 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1777-1781
Physical Description:
2 letters ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
ca. [1798?]
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 26-34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
Physical Description:
6, [7], [4], 32 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 23, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
[4], 38, [2] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[2], 36 p. ; 32 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
1 v. (97 leaves) ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXIII. [i.e. 1773]
Physical Description:
[4], 27, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
Physical Description:
[4], 32 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M DCC LXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:
[4], 44 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description:
[4], 30, [2] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 29, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[4], 15, [1] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:
[4], 20 p. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1749-1816
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
Physical Description:
[4], 26, [2] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
Physical Description:
[4], 31, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1972
Physical Description:
3 v. : col. ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Longinus, 1st cent
Date:
1739
Physical Description:
[16], xxxiv, 187 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
No cover image available
Creator:
Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676–1751
Date:
1757?
Physical Description:
1 v. ([74] p.) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:
1799-1811
Physical Description:
3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Date:
published as the Act directs, 2 Sep. 1784
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hipwell, John
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
Date:
MDCCLXII-MDCCXXX [1762-1830]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 57 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
109 prints : aquatint
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Malpas, Edward
Date:
[approximately 1775]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; sheet 125 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts