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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 18th century

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No cover image available
Date:
[1720]
Physical Description:
52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Shellwork flower arrangement.
Creator:
Dennis, Sarah, 1712–1761
Date:
circa 1730
Physical Description:
1 shellwork flower arrangement : shell, silk, fish scales, wood, glass ; in cabinet 49 x 39 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
late 18th century?
Physical Description:
1 box ; 27 x 22 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hancock, Robert, 1730–1817
Date:
[1757?]
Physical Description:
1 mug : porcelain, decorated with transfer-prints ; 118 mm in height, 90 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952
The royal and entertaining Game of the goose.
Date:
[between 1761 and 1794]
Physical Description:
1 sheet. 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Defiance.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 48 x 59 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Sutherland.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 50 x 60 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper flower arrangements.
Date:
London?,
Physical Description:
2 works : hand-cut paper ; in oval box frames 26 x 20 x 6 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
No cover image available
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
1 sheet : map ; 50 x 69 cm. folded to 18 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
1 folded leaf ([4] p.) : ill. ; 19 x 32 cm. folded to 19 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
fold. col. plate. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1790
Physical Description:
1 patch box : enamel, copper, glass ; 3.2 x 3.9 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Van Ness family
No cover image available
Creator:
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
Date:
[1780]
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 49 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Kirk, James, active 1784–1793
Date:
between 1784 and [1793?]
Physical Description:
1 token : brass ; 31 mm in diameter
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
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
No cover image available
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 47 x 67 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
between 1790 and 1805
Physical Description:
1 figurine : soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast in sections and painted in enamels ; 28 cm high, 13 cm wide, 9 cm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
No cover image available
Creator:
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734–1793
Date:
Novr. 30th 1791
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 41 x 73 cm, folded to 21 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
between 1792 and 1795
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 25 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
No cover image available
Date:
1792-1797
Physical Description:
6 tokens : copper ; each approximately 3 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert
No cover image available
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
1 map ; 52 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Society for the Conversion &c. of Negroe Slaves.
Date:
ca. 1820
Physical Description:
1 seal : wax, with paper backing ; 6.4 cm in diameter
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
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
No cover image available
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet 50 x 68 cm. fold. to 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
[1794?]
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 28 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Fowler, John, (active 1794)
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 28 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
J. & S. Kelly (London, England)
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 27 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Moore, Joseph, -1825
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 28 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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
No cover image available
Creator:
Reeves & Inwood
Date:
between 1796 and 1811?
Physical Description:
1 watercolor box : mahogany ; 17 x 22 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Palmer mail coach token.
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; diameter 27 mm, depth 1 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An arithmetical pastime : intended to infuse the rudiments of arithmetic, under the idea of amusement.
Date:
April 19th, 1798
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 33 x 70 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Rose Bruce, of Dublin.
Creator:
Andras, Catherine, 1775–1860
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 sculpture : painted wax ; figure 18 cm high x 19 cm wide (at base), in shadow box 33 x 28 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
between 1799 and 1827
Physical Description:
1 watercolor box : wood ; 10 x 26 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bramah, Joseph, 1749–1814
Date:
[London?] :
Physical Description:
1 campaign box : leather, brass, and velvet ; 12 x 28 x 10 cm + 1 metal key
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952