Date: 1776 / Period: 18th century / Image Available: Unavailable

1. Stallion and Mare

Creator:: George Townly Stubbs, 1748–1815
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 x 22 3/4in. (47.6 x 57.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Lydia

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (30.3 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. Agrippina

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 × 28 1/2 inches (54 × 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Lydia

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (31.8 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Marchioness of Wharton

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 3/8in. (40.3 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Trinity Church, Sheffield

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. West View of Sheffield Manor

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. South View of the Manor near Sheffield

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Roche Abbey, near Sandbeck

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. View near Sheffield

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. View of Heaton Mill, near Newcastle

Creator:: Thomas Beilby, 1747–1826
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (11.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Design for a Doorway

Creator:: John Yenn, 1750–1821
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Design for a Doorway

Creator:: John Yenn, 1750–1821
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 × 11 3/4 inches (53.3 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. View of Chinsura from the River

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black/grey wash and graphite on laid paper, laid down on 19th century wash mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/16 x 26 1/2in. (49.4 x 67.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Bacchus

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 17 3/4 inches (60.3 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Master Wynn in the Character of St. John

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 17 13/16 inches (34.6 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Miss Shuttle-Cock / Ladies like Shuttlecocks are now array'd, The tail is Cork'd & feather'd is the Head.

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14in. (24.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Honourable Mrs. Beresford, Mrs. Gardiner, and The Right Honourable Anne Viscountess Townshend

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 × 27 1/8 inches (56.5 × 68.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Erasistratus, the Physician, discovers the love of Antiochus for Sratonice

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Entrance of Warwick Castle from the Lower Court

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, printed in brown ink
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 17 3/4in. (32.1 x 45.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Warwick Castle from the Lodge Hill

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Sepia
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 3/4in. (29.8 x 45.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Horse Race at Rome During the Carnival

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 x 22 5/16 inches (39.1 x 56.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Temple of Peace

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Circus of Caracalla

Creator:: Print made by Edward Rooker, 1724–1774
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Torre Delle Grotte near Naples

Creator:: Print made by William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Bridge of Augustus at Rimini

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Temple of Romulus and Remus

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Banks of the Tiber

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Baths of Dioclesian

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. In the Strada Nomentana

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Pompey's Bridge at Terni

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. In the Villa Adriana

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Villa of Mæcenus at Tivoli

Creator:: Print made by Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Castle of Ischia

Creator:: Print made by James Gandon, 1742–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 10 inches (25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

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

37. A new treatise on the method of breeding, breaking, and training, horses / by William Ward ...

Creator:: Ward, William, active 1776
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xvi, 200 p. : 4 fold. pl. (incl. front.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. De anima brutorum commentaria.

Creator:: Soldini, Francesco Maria
Date:: anno MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: [10], 256 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: [2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. An essay on architecture.

Creator:: Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 4–1778
Date:: 1776]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 21 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 21 p. 9 double pl. (incl. ports.) 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Le antiche camere delle terme di Tito e le loro pitture restituite al pubblico da Ludovico Mirri Romano, delineate, incise, dipinte, col prospetto, pianta inferiore e superiore e loro spaccati, descritte dall' abate Giuseppe Carletti Romano ...

Creator:: Carletti, Giuseppe
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xcvi, [4] p. 32 cm. & atlas of 61 plates (8 fold.) 65 x 77 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester : with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston villa / by the Author of the New Bath guide.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux originaux des bons maitres des trois écoles : figures, bustes de marbre & de bronze, d'ancienne porcelaine de la Chine & du Japon : lacques, pierres gravées & autres, médailles, estampes & objets curieux, qui composent le cabinet de feu M. le Duc de S. Aignan : dont la vent se fera le lundi 17 juin 1776, en son Hôtel rue Saint Avoye : par J.B.P. Lebrun.

Creator:: Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, 1748–1813
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 50 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Travels through Italy, in the years 1771 and 1772 : described in a series of letters to Baron Born, on the natural history, particularly the mountains and volcanoes of that country / by John James Ferber ... ; translated from the German ; with explanatory notes, and a preface on the present state and future improvement of mineralogy by R. E. Raspe.

Creator:: Ferber, Johann Jakob, 1743–1790
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [1], 377, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The American atlas, or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys, several of which were made by order of government / by Capt. Holland, Capt. Carver, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. ; engraved on forty-eight copper-plates by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King, and others.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2] leaves, [57] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 29 maps ; 54 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

Creator:: Chandler, Richard, 1738–1810
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 4, xiv, [2], 304 p., [7] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Bond of Indemnity ... : manuscript.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Smith, Adam, 1723–1790
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 29 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Journal dédié a Monsieur frere du roi : table generale des journaux anciens et modernes, contenant les jugemens des jounalistes sur les principaux ouvrages en tout genre : suivie d'observations impartiales, & de planches en taille-douce ou en colour : par un société de gens de lettres.

Physical Description:: v. ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A catalogue of pictures, composed and painted chiefly by the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolognese, Venetian, Flemish, and French schools : in which many of the most capital are illustrated by descriptions and critial remarks / humbly offered to the impartial examination of the public by Robert Foulis.

Creator:: Foulis, Robert, 1707–1776
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The American military pocket atlas : being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies ; especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war : taken principally from the actual surveys and judicious observations of Engineers de Brahm and Romans ; Cook, Jackson, and Collet ; Maj. Holland, and other officers, employed in His Majesty's fleets and armies.

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], vi-viii, [2] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

Creator:: Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Date:: circa 1776-circa 1832
Physical Description:: 1 v. (270 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

Date:: Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt. (39 Strand)
Physical Description:: [240] prints : etchings ; 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

Creator:: Weston, Stephen, 1747–1830
Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: iv, 176 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A catalogue of that capital collection of pictures, of Edward Ravenell, Esq., deceased : formed by Sir Peter Killegrew in the reign of Charles I : consisting of the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Poussin, Ostade, Wouvermans, Carlo Dolci, Barroccio, Wynants, Deneef, S. Rosa, Tintoret, Vanderveldt, Zuchero, Titian, &c.: in this collection there are also a most beautiful picture of a Dutch fair, by Wouvermans : an original portrait of Thomas Killegrew, the Jester, by Vandyck : a sea view by Vanderveldt : Venus and Adonis, by Netscher : and two elegant Porphyry Busts with Jasper Draperies, on beautiful variegated Pedestals : which (by order of the executor,) will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at their house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Saturday the 24th of this Instant February 1776 : the said collection may be viewed on Thursday the 22nd, and till the time of sale, which will begin punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had gratis on the days of viewing, at Mess. Langford's aforesaid : conditions of sale as usual.

Creator:: Mess. Langford (Firm)
Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Rei nauticæ incrementa.

Creator:: Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 1754–1778
Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 preliminary leaf, 10 pages 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

Creator:: Armstrong, Francis
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 31 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Observations on the Night thoughts of Dr. Young, with occasional remarks on the beauties of poetical composition ... / by Courtney Melmoth.

Creator:: Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749–1814
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 211 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The works of Alexander Pope, esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death: printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton.

Creator:: Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 6 v. front., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Die drey reiche der natur.

Creator:: Heppe, Johann Christoph, 1745–1806
Date:: 1776-1780
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams; and reduced to practice ... Containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. ... All originals; invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the author, Thomas Malton.

Creator:: Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., viii, [8], 284 p. front., XLVI fold. pl. (incl. diagrs.) 38 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Ugbrooke Park: a poem.

Creator:: Reeve, Joseph, 1733–1820
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [5]-29 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A treatise on building in water : in two parts : Part I. : particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin ... : Part II : concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods ... : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates / by George Semple ...

Creator:: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 4 p. l., 157 p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies & in North America. / by T. Pownall, M.P. Late governor, &c. &c. of His Majesty's provinces of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina, and lieutenant governor of New Jersey.

Creator:: Pownall, Thomas, 1722–1805
Date:: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
Physical Description:: vi, 46, 16 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 44 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A practical essay on a cement and artificial stone : justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans / lately rediscovered by Monsieur Loriot ... ; for the cheap, easy, expeditious and durable construction of all manner of buildings ; and the formation of all kinds of ornaments of architecture, even with the commonest and coarsest materials ; translated from the French ...

Creator:: Loriot, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1782
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 48 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A companion to every place of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ... : to which is added a new large and elegant map of London, Westminster, and Southwark ... designed for strangers to choose such objects as suit their convenience, and to enable them to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: x, 191 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

Creator:: Gessner, Salomon, 1730–1788
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 129 p. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Traité sur la cavalerie / par M. le Comte Drummond de Melfort, maréchal de camp ès armées du roi, & inspecteur-général des troupes-légeres.

Creator:: Drummond de Melfort, Louis, comte, 1726–1788
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: xxij, [2], 505, [3] p., [1], 11 leaves of plates (9 double) : ill. ; 43 cm. + atlas (XXXII double leaves of plates; 65 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Britannica curiosa, or, A description of the most remarkable curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : in the several counties, cities, towns, villages, &c. : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment... : illustrated with copper plates.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in pittura, scultura e architettura : o sia, Abecedario pittorico dall' origine delle belle arti a tutto l' anno MDCCLXXV ...

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 v. in 2 : port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The school of wisdom; or repository of the most valuable curiosities of art & nature ... Compiled from various authors.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xii, 324 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Needwood Forest.

Creator:: Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke, 1738 or 1739–1815
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 52 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Great Britain's coasting-pilot : in two parts : being a new and exact survey of the sea-coast of England and Scotland from the River of Thames to the westward and northward : with the islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle : likewise the islands of Orkney and Shetland, describing all the harbours, rivers, bays, roads, rocks, sands, buoys, beacons, sea-marks, depths of water, latitude, bearings and distances from place to place : the setting and flowing of the tides : with directions for the knowing of any place, and how to harbour a ship in the same with safety : with directions for coming into the channel between England and France / by Captain Greenville Collins, Hyrdographer in Ordinary to the King's most excellent Majesty.

Creator:: Collins, Greenvile, active 1669–1698
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 30 pages, [95] leaves of plates) : 49 maps ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. John Bracken : a monograph / by M.E. Burkett.

Creator:: Burkett, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Date:: [1976?]
Physical Description:: viii, 5 pages, 11 pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

85. Observations on the Highlands of Scotland / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: 462 p. in various pagings, [39] leaves : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Stallion and Mare

2. Lydia

3. Agrippina

4. Lydia

5. Marchioness of Wharton

6. Trinity Church, Sheffield

7. West View of Sheffield Manor

8. South View of the Manor near Sheffield

9. Roche Abbey, near Sandbeck

10. View near Sheffield

11. View of Heaton Mill, near Newcastle

12. Design for a Doorway

13. Design for a Doorway

14. View of Chinsura from the River

15. Bacchus

16. Master Wynn in the Character of St. John

17. Miss Shuttle-Cock / Ladies like Shuttlecocks are now array'd, The tail is Cork'd & feather'd is the Head.

18. The Honourable Mrs. Beresford, Mrs. Gardiner, and The Right Honourable Anne Viscountess Townshend

19. Erasistratus, the Physician, discovers the love of Antiochus for Sratonice

20. The Entrance of Warwick Castle from the Lower Court

21. Warwick Castle from the Lodge Hill

22. The Horse Race at Rome During the Carnival

23. Temple of Peace

24. Circus of Caracalla

25. Torre Delle Grotte near Naples

26. Bridge of Augustus at Rimini

27. Temple of Romulus and Remus

28. Banks of the Tiber

29. Baths of Dioclesian

30. In the Strada Nomentana

31. Pompey's Bridge at Terni

32. In the Villa Adriana

33. Villa of Mæcenus at Tivoli

34. Castle of Ischia

36. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

37. A new treatise on the method of breeding, breaking, and training, horses / by William Ward ...

38. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

39. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

41. De anima brutorum commentaria.

42. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

43. An essay on architecture.

45. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

46. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

47. Le antiche camere delle terme di Tito e le loro pitture restituite al pubblico da Ludovico Mirri Romano, delineate, incise, dipinte, col prospetto, pianta inferiore e superiore e loro spaccati, descritte dall' abate Giuseppe Carletti Romano ...

48. An election ball : in poetical letters from Mr. Inkle, at Bath, to his wife at Glocester : with a poetical address to John Miller, Esq. at Batheaston villa / by the Author of the New Bath guide.

51. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

53. Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti / by Richard Chandler, D.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

54. Bond of Indemnity ... : manuscript.

55. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / by Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S., formerly professor of moral philosophy in the University of Glasgow ; in two volumes.

56. Journal dédié a Monsieur frere du roi : table generale des journaux anciens et modernes, contenant les jugemens des jounalistes sur les principaux ouvrages en tout genre : suivie d'observations impartiales, & de planches en taille-douce ou en colour : par un société de gens de lettres.

60. Anne Rushout commonplace book.

61. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

62. Viaggiana, or, Detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of ancient and modern Rome.

64. Rei nauticæ incrementa.

65. An account of a newly invented beautiful green paint. Lasting in the open air, and daily improving by the winds, sunshine and rains. Prepared by Francis Armstrong ...

66. Observations on the Night thoughts of Dr. Young, with occasional remarks on the beauties of poetical composition ... / by Courtney Melmoth.

67. The works of Alexander Pope, esq. In six volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death: printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton.

68. Die drey reiche der natur.

69. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

71. Ugbrooke Park: a poem.

72. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

73. A treatise on building in water : in two parts : Part I. : particularly relative to the repair and re-building of Essex-Bridge, Dublin ... : Part II : concerning an attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap methods ... : illustrated with sixty-three copper-plates / by George Semple ...

77. New idylles, by Gessner. Tr. by W. Hooper, M.D. With a letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting, and the Two friend of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot.

78. Traité sur la cavalerie / par M. le Comte Drummond de Melfort, maréchal de camp ès armées du roi, & inspecteur-général des troupes-légeres.

80. Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in pittura, scultura e architettura : o sia, Abecedario pittorico dall' origine delle belle arti a tutto l' anno MDCCLXXV ...

81. The school of wisdom; or repository of the most valuable curiosities of art & nature ... Compiled from various authors.

82. Needwood Forest.

84. John Bracken : a monograph / by M.E. Burkett.

85. Observations on the Highlands of Scotland / by William Gilpin.