Exhibition History: Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

101. Horsemen Colliding

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown, black, and gray ink with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 13/16 inches (29.8 x 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

102. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

103. The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and white gouache with scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 20 11/16 inches (32.2 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

104. The Exhibition Stare-Case, Somerset House

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 11 11/16 inches (44.5 x 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

105. Lyme Regis, Dorset

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 17 1/16 inches (22.1 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

106. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

107. Charles Stuart, third Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Lennox

Creator:: Samuel Cooper, 1609–1672
Date:: between 1661 and 1667
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with gold on parchment laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (7 x 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

108. Hare Hunting

Creator:: Francis Barlow, 1622–1704
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (17.5 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

109. Hounds in a Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and brown ink, black ink, charcoal crayon, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 5/16 × 12 1/4 inches (36.4 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

110. The Dressmaker's Shop

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: ca. 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 5 3/8 inches (22.5 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

111. Street Scene in Chelsea, possibly depicting the Tobacconist, J. W. Nicholas, located at No. 75, Cheyne Walk

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: ca. 1888
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 8 7/8 inches (13.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

112. The Tiger at Bay: an illustration for Captain Thomas Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports"

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/8 × 19 1/8 inches (35.9 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

113. Study of a Plunging Eagle

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Varnish over graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches (36.8 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

114. Horse Fair in East Anglia

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: 1899
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (34.6 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

115. Tangier

Creator:: Joseph Crawhall, 1861–1913
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on very thick, rough, beige cardboard
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 16 15/16 inches (39.7 × 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

116. A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports"

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 inches (23.2 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

117. The Connoisseurs

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red, brown and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

118. 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

119. A Worn Out Debauchée

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and yellow and gray-black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (30 x 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

120. Mountain Landscape, Macugnaga

Creator:: John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite and scraping out on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (29.8 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

121. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, blue chalk, graphite, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (64.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

122. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

Creator:: Francis Cleyn, 1582–1658
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

123. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 inches (45 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

124. Bay Scene in Moonlight

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

125. The Villa Medici, Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (34.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

126. Crossing Lancaster Sands

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: mid-1830s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 5/16 × 20 1/16 inches (36.4 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

127. A Yorkshire Road

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 16 7/8 inches (19.4 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

128. Domfront, Looking to the South East

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (28.3 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

129. In Rokeby Park

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1800 to 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 9 inches (33 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

130. Mountainous Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink, black ink, gray wash, brown wash and pale brown ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

131. A Summer Day

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1827 to 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on Medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (31.8 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

132. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

133. The Bass Rock at Dawn

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, graphite, gouache, and scratching out on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 19 15/16 inches (20.8 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

134. L'Institut de France, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 7/16 inches (35.6 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

135. The Geographers

Creator:: John Brown, 1749–1787
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

136. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 3/8 inches (7.6 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

137. Death of Abimelech at Thebez

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 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

138. Wankaka

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 19 3/16 inches (34.8 × 48.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

139. Galleria di Sopra, Albano

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 3/8 x 24 1/2 inches (46.7 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

140. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1785 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, white wash and black chalk with varnish on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (21.6 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

141. The Lake of Albano and Castle Gandolfo

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches (44.5 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

142. The Creation of the Heavens

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 10 inches (23.2 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

143. A View of Chatham from the West

Creator:: Jacob Esselens, 1626–1687
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 12 1/4 inches (18.7 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

144. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches (7.9 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

145. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Thomas Forster, ca. 1677–after 1712
Date:: 1699
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 3 inches (12.7 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

146. The East End and South Side of the Parthenon

Creator:: John Foster, ca. 1787–1846
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches (29.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

147. A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black and white chalk, and oil paint, with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, backed with laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 11 3/8 inches (22.9 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

148. Wooded Landscape with Castle

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1785 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and stumping with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 inches (26.4 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

149. Back View of a Standing Female, Called Mrs. Fuseli

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (36.5 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

150. Fields Farm, Clayhidon

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1917
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 14 7/8 inches (35.2 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

151. Design for a Silver Chalice (Design for a Wine-Cooler (?) for Rundell, Bride and Rundell)

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Sepia on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 × 16 3/4 inches (39.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

152. Solanum adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich. (Nightshade): finished drawing

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 3/16 inches (40.5 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

153. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 12 1/2 inches (22.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

154. Fennecus verdus (Fennec)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 3/8 inches (24.8 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

155. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:: 1876
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and black chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

156. 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

157. The Canterbury tales.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: 1483]
Physical Description:: [312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. 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

159. Trattato di architectura civile e militare.

Creator:: Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439–1502
Date:: not after 1521
Physical Description:: 1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

Creator:: Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Date:: anno Christi Opt. Max. MDXIII. Marcii XII [1513]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-60, [32] leaves (last leaf blank), [92] leaves of plates : ill., 47 maps (woodcuts) ; 45 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East : and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes ... the scenery gives a faithful representation of the picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants : the narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings ... / the whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson ... ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic] ...

Oriental field sports : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the East : and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals, as likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes ... the scenery gives a faithful representation of the picturesque country, together with the manners and customs of both the native and European inhabitants : the narrative is divided into forty heads, forming collectively a complete work, but so arranged that each part is a detail of one of the forty coloured engravings ... / the whole taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson ... ; the drawings by Samuel Howett [sic] ...

Creator:: Williamson, Thomas
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [2], 150 p., 41 leaves of plates : ill. ; 47 x 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes [cartographic material] : wherin weare gotten the townes of St . Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines : the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586 : the whole course of the saide viadge beinge plainlie described by the pricked line / newlie come forth by Baptista B.

The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes [cartographic material] : wherin weare gotten the townes of St . Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines : the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586 : the whole course of the saide viadge beinge plainlie described by the pricked line / newlie come forth by Baptista B.

Creator:: Boazio, Baptista
Date:: [1589?]
Physical Description:: [5] sheets : maps (engravings)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : now newly imprinted.

Creator:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:: Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896]
Physical Description:: 4 blank l., ii p., 1 l., 554 p. illus. 43 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. John Porter manuscript.

Creator:: Porter, John, fl. 1445–1485
Date:: circa 1450
Physical Description:: 1 v. (72 leaves) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Helmingham herbal and bestiary.

Date:: circa 1500
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([20] leaves, with 1 blank leaf) : ill. ; 45 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

166. Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati qui quinq[ue] navibus probe instructis, ex occidentali Anglia parte anchoras soluens, tertio post decimo Decembris An[n]o MDLXXVII, terraru[m] orbis ambitum circumnavigans, unica tantu[m] navi reliqua (alijs fluctibus, alijs flamma correptis) redux factus, sexto supra vigesimo Sep. 1580.

Vera descriptio expeditionis nauticae Francisci Draci Angli, cognitis aurati qui quinq[ue] navibus probe instructis, ex occidentali Anglia parte anchoras soluens, tertio post decimo Decembris An[n]o MDLXXVII, terraru[m] orbis ambitum circumnavigans, unica tantu[m] navi reliqua (alijs fluctibus, alijs flamma correptis) redux factus, sexto supra vigesimo Sep. 1580.

Date:: circa 1587
Physical Description:: 1 map : pen and ink and watercolor ; 21.9 x 43 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. St. George and the dragon.

Creator:: Marshal, Alexander
Date:: circa 1630-1682
Physical Description:: 1 painting : watercolor, pen and ink, on paper ; image 204 x 192 mm., on sheet 220 x 199 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. Charles Dashwood diaries and commissions relating to Xalapa and Guatemala City.

Creator:: Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832
Date:: 1826-1830
Physical Description:: 2 v. + (2 commissions) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, 1388?-
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: [180] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Record books.

Creator:: Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:: 1829-1864
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (171, 60 leaves) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish.

Creator:: Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–1592
Date:: 1592
Physical Description:: 1 v. (38 leaves) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. The roadsters album.

Creator:: Newhouse, Charles B., ca. 1805–1877
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [17] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Stultifera nauis.

Creator:: Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:: 1509 (14 Dec.)]
Physical Description:: [4], CCLXXIIII [i.e. CCLXXIX] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1765-1771 [i.e. 1765-1780]
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ports. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Picturesque views on the river Medway : from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood / by Samuel Ireland, author of "A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France", and of "Picturesque views on the river Thames.".

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: [5], p. viii, [1], viii-xii, 206, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

Date:: 1481]
Physical Description:: [100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. The art of illumination and missal painting : a guide to modern illuminators : illustrated by a series of specimens, from richly illuminated mss. of various periods, accompanied by a set of outlines, to be coloured by the student according to the theories developed in the work / by H. Noel Humphreys.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: [2], 64 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

Creator:: Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598
Date:: 1590[-1630]
Physical Description:: 14 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. A series of eight plates of fox hunting / from the original drawings by W. P. Hodges, Esqr. ; and engraved by Mr. Henry Alken.

Creator:: Hodges, Walter Parry, 1760–1845
Date:: 1833[-1834]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [1] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 76 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. The famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes [cartographic material] : wherin weare gotten the townes of St . Iago, Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines : the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586 : the whole course of the saide viadge beinge plainlie described by the pricked line / newlie come forth by Baptista B.

Creator:: Boazio, Baptista
Date:: [1589?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 40.5 x 52.5 cm., on sheet 41.8 x 55.6 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Memoirs of the life of John Constable ... : composed chiefly of his letters / by C.R. Leslie ...

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 152 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:: 1797-1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. [Atlas of the counties of England and Wales].

Creator:: Saxton, Christopher, 1542?-
Date:: [1579]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1] leaf, [71] leaves of plates) : 35 maps, port. ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Journal of a tour down the Wye, MDCCLXXXVI.

Creator:: Cooper, Anne, 1763?-1804
Date:: 1786 May 29-June 1
Physical Description:: 1 v. (48 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. An historical tour through Monmouthshire / by William Coxe, A.M. ; illustrated with views by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([8], v, [3], 31, [1], 433 [i.e. 435], [7] p.) ; 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The craft of venery.

Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: circa 1450
Physical Description:: 1 v. (7 p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Creator:: Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Physical Description:: 13 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

190. Head of an old woman.

Creator:: Marshal, Alexander
Physical Description:: 1 painting : watercolor, pen and ink, on paper ; image 240 x 200 mm., on sheet 280 x 200 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Cy commance le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio : le quel fait mencion co[m]mant on doit deviser de toutez manieres de chasses ...

Creator:: Ferrières, Henri de, fl. 1377
Date:: [20 Oct. 1486]
Physical Description:: [103] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. The night riders of Nacton : a series of four plates, beautifully coloured / from original drawings by Henry Alken ; shewing the rise, progress, and downfalling of "The first steeple chase on record" ; from an authentic account published in the "Sporting Review," No. 1, for January, 1839.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 49 x 62 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Le livre du Roy Modus et de la Royne Racio.

Creator:: Ferrières, Henri de, active 1377
Date:: circa 1420
Physical Description:: 1 v. (p. 20-131) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. An epitome of painting : containing breife directions for drawing, painting, limning, and cryoons : wth. the choicest receipts for preparing the colours for limning and cryoons : likewise directions for painting on glass, as tis now in use amongst all persons of quality : and lastly, how to lay the ground, and work in mezzo tinto / all by Edward Luttrell, 1683.

Creator:: Luttrell, Edward
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([8], 68 p., with numerous blanks at end) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Horsemen Colliding

102. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

103. The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough

104. The Exhibition Stare-Case, Somerset House

105. Lyme Regis, Dorset

106. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

107. Charles Stuart, third Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Lennox

108. Hare Hunting

109. Hounds in a Landscape

110. The Dressmaker's Shop

111. Street Scene in Chelsea, possibly depicting the Tobacconist, J. W. Nicholas, located at No. 75, Cheyne Walk

112. The Tiger at Bay: an illustration for Captain Thomas Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports"

113. Study of a Plunging Eagle

114. Horse Fair in East Anglia

115. Tangier

116. A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports"

117. The Connoisseurs

118. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

119. A Worn Out Debauchée

120. Mountain Landscape, Macugnaga

121. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc

122. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

123. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

124. Bay Scene in Moonlight

125. The Villa Medici, Rome

126. Crossing Lancaster Sands

127. A Yorkshire Road

128. Domfront, Looking to the South East

129. In Rokeby Park

130. Mountainous Landscape

131. A Summer Day

132. Queen Square, London

133. The Bass Rock at Dawn

134. L'Institut de France, Paris

135. The Geographers

136. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

137. Death of Abimelech at Thebez

138. Wankaka

139. Galleria di Sopra, Albano

140. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

141. The Lake of Albano and Castle Gandolfo

142. The Creation of the Heavens

143. A View of Chatham from the West

144. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

145. Portrait of a Man

146. The East End and South Side of the Parthenon

147. A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants

148. Wooded Landscape with Castle

149. Back View of a Standing Female, Called Mrs. Fuseli

150. Fields Farm, Clayhidon

151. Design for a Silver Chalice (Design for a Wine-Cooler (?) for Rundell, Bride and Rundell)

152. Solanum adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich. (Nightshade): finished drawing

153. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

154. Fennecus verdus (Fennec)

155. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert

156. Letter to John Thomas Smith.

157. The Canterbury tales.

158. Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.

159. Trattato di architectura civile e militare.

160. Claudii Ptolemei viri Alexandrini mathematic[ae] disciplin[ae] philosophi doctissimi Geographi[ae] opus nouissima traductione e Gr[ae]corum archetypis castigatissime pressum, c[ae]teris ante lucubratorum multo pr[ae]stantius ...

163. The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : now newly imprinted.

164. John Porter manuscript.

165. Helmingham herbal and bestiary.

167. St. George and the dragon.

168. Charles Dashwood diaries and commissions relating to Xalapa and Guatemala City.

169. Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

170. Record books.

171. Account of the last voyage of Thomas Cavendish.

172. The roadsters album.

173. Stultifera nauis.

174. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

177. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

179. Wunderbarliche, doch warhaftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ...

180. A series of eight plates of fox hunting / from the original drawings by W. P. Hodges, Esqr. ; and engraved by Mr. Henry Alken.

182. Memoirs of the life of John Constable ... : composed chiefly of his letters / by C.R. Leslie ...