Exhibition History: Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) / Subject Terms: English wit and humor, Pictorial. / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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

Subject Terms English wit and humor, Pictorial.

Classification Books

1. [My wife]

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Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically : in a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations / by Hilarius Benevolus, & co., fellows of the "London literary society of Lusorists." Embellished with five illlustrative etchings, and two head-pieces.

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Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xvi, 223, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The caricatures of Gillray : with historical and political illustrations, and compendious biographical anecdotes and notices.

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Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Physical Description:: 164 p., [81] leaves of plates (some folded) : etchings, hand-colored ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

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Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv p., [54] leaves of plates, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts