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

1. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

Date:: 1641
Physical Description:: 18 p. : ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. O Rare Show

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 13/16 inches (32.7 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. [Geographical cards.

Date:: 16--]
Physical Description:: 52 cards. ill. (ports.) 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [The Popish Plot]

Date:: [1679?]
Physical Description:: 52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1684
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Five Ladies in a Garden

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 9 1/4 inches (22.9 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. An Orchestra Rehearsing

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 7/8 inches (26.7 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Playing the Games of Quadrille

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

Creator:: Laroon, Marcellus, 1653–1702
Date:: 1711
Physical Description:: [74] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Bartholomew Fair, 1721

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1721
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored aquatint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. [All the bubbles]

Date:: [1720]
Physical Description:: 52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The Humours of Bartholomew Fair

Creator:: Print made by James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: ca. 1734
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Family of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu and an Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 29 1/2 inches (53.3 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

Creator:: Charles Philips, 1708–1747
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Southwark Fair

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 17 3/4 inches (34.1 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Flying the Kite

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 inches (14.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

Creator:: Tomlinson, Kellom
Date:: MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:: [22], 159, [1] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Children in an Interior

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 49 3/4 inches (99.1 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Games at Vauxhall: Playing at Cricket

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 13/16 inches (26.7 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Exercise of See Saw

Creator:: L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Sliding on Ice

Creator:: Remi Parr, active 1723–1750
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

Creator:: John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Date:: ca. 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 16 11/16in. (25.4 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Mall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1740 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 47 1/4 inches (74.9 x 120 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (31.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Portrait of a Lady at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured,cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (21 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Musicians and a Performing Bear

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 7 inches (7.9 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Picnic: Two Ladies and a Gentleman

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, brown wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (21.9 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Fortune Teller or Casting the Coffee Grounds

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Building Houses with Cards

Creator:: Print made by L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 13 7/8in. (28.3 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Battledore and shittlecock

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches (35.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. A Perspective View of the Bowling Green &c. at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, a seat of Sr. Jeremy Sambrooke Bart.

Creator:: Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 17in. (24.4 x 43.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Conquering a Chromatic Passage

Creator:: Attributed to Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 12 5/8 inches (26.4 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. [A collection of broadsides / by Adam Toppin].

Creator:: Toppin, Adam, b. 1701
Date:: [1750s or 1760s?]
Physical Description:: 44 broadsides : ill. ; 14-36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Henry Roberts, ca. 1710–1790
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, hand colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 16 11/16in. (26.4 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Domestic Amusement: Playing on the Guitar

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16 inches (32.1 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Peep Show

Creator:: Attributed to George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 12 5/8 inches (20 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Boy Spinning Top

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 inches (33.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A Man doing the Splits

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1760 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Position de la Garde Italienne de L'Epée & Poignard

Creator:: James Gwin, 1700–1769
Date:: 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, pen and gray ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 10 3/4 × 15 15/16 inches (27.3 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Entrance to Pidcock's Exhibition Tent at a Fair

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 12 3/4in. (35.7 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

Creator:: Francis Cotes, 1726–1770
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches (90.8 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. The Harmonious Family

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brushed gray ink, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Modern Exercise

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Travelling Musicians

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. A Country Amusement - Bull Baiting

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. The Travelling Show Man

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Grown Ladies Taught to Dance

Creator:: Print made by P. Crotchet, active 1768
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches (37.3 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. A Modern Diversion

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. Study of a Peep Show with Two Attendant Figures and Two Children

Creator:: Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, 1756–1811
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (34 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. A Punch and Judy Show

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. The Angling Party

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray ink, over graphite, border with pen and gray brown ink line on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 10 3/16 inches (17.5 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Checkmate

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Elegant Company Dancing

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and red-brown, red, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (11.4 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

Creator:: James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. An Encampment in St. James Park

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches (30.2 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Fair at Cheltenham

Creator:: Edward Eyre, active 1771–1792
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 15 1/8 inches (24.4 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. 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

65. Pot Fair, Cambridge

Creator:: James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (47 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Foot Ball played at Market Place, Barnet

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Coits Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Four Corners Played at the Swan, Chelsea

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Trap Ball Played at the Black Prince, Newington, Butts

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 inches (41.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Study of a Woman Sewing and a Girl Reading

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. 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

76. Mr. Deputy Dumpling and Family Enjoying a Summer Afternoon

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/8 inches (35.7 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

78. St. James's Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Cricket played by the Gentlemens Club, Whiteconduit House

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

81. Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

82. Skating in St. James' Park

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 27 7/8 inches (32.4 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. A Band of Savoyards

Creator:: Charles Knight, 1743–c.1826
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 18 1/16in. (35.2 x 45.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Airopaidia : containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage : hints on the improvement of balloons, and mode of inflation by steam : means to prevent their descent over water : occasional enquiries into the state of the atmosphere, favouring their direction : with various philosophical observations and conjectures. To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain : with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation : with a copious index / by Thomas Baldwin, Esq. A. M.

Airopaidia : containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage : hints on the improvement of balloons, and mode of inflation by steam : means to prevent their descent over water : occasional enquiries into the state of the atmosphere, favouring their direction : with various philosophical observations and conjectures. To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain : with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation : with a copious index / by Thomas Baldwin, Esq. A. M.

Creator:: Baldwin, Thomas
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [3], viii, [1], 360 [i.e. 361], [1] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Box Lobby Loungers

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 22 5/8in. (34 x 57.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Boys Playing at Marbles

Creator:: Print made by Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 × 23 1/2 inches (47.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

87. Portrait of a Girl Sketching

Creator:: William Henry Brooke, 1772–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (22.2 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. The Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess

Creator:: James Moore, 1762–1799
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 inches (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Interior of the Brandenburg House Theatre, Hammersmith

Creator:: Henry Wigstead, ca. 1745–ca. 1800
Date:: ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 13 1/2 inches (22.9 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. The Prize Fight

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 27 3/8 inches (46 x 69.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Winter Amusement: A View in Hyde Park from the Sluice at the East End

Creator:: Print made by James Tookey, active 1787–1805
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, printed in color and colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 3/8in. (31.4 x 39.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Winter Amusement: A View in Hyde Park from the Moated House

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, printed in color and colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 3/8in. (31.4 x 39.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Anglers' Repast

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

94. A Party Angling

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

95. Hall's Library at Margate

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 13/16in. (30.5 x 47.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Archery

Creator:: after James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 23 3/4in. (43.2 x 60.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Cricket on the Goodwin Sands

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (14 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Man and Children with a Street Organ and a Monkey

Creator:: Thomas Heaphy, 1775–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 12 3/4 inches (37 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. A Tea Garden

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 21 1/4in. (47 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The trve effigies of our most illustrious soveraigne lord, King Charles, Queene Mary, with the rest of the royall progenie : also a compendium or abstract of their most famous genealogies and pedegrees expressed in prose and verse, with the times and places of their births.

2. O Rare Show

3. [Geographical cards.

4. [The Popish Plot]

5. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

6. Five Ladies in a Garden

7. An Orchestra Rehearsing

8. Playing the Games of Quadrille

9. Rehearsal of an opera

10. The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.

11. Bartholomew Fair, 1721

12. [All the bubbles]

13. The Humours of Bartholomew Fair

14. The Family of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu and an Attendant

15. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

16. Southwark Fair

17. Flying the Kite

18. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

19. Children in an Interior

20. Games at Vauxhall: Playing at Cricket

21. The Exercise of See Saw

22. Sliding on Ice

23. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

24. The Mall

25. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

26. Portrait of a Lady at a Drawing Table

27. Musicians and a Performing Bear

28. A Picnic: Two Ladies and a Gentleman

29. The Fortune Teller or Casting the Coffee Grounds

30. Building Houses with Cards

31. Battledore and shittlecock

32. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

33. A Perspective View of the Bowling Green &c. at Gubbins in Hertfordshire, a seat of Sr. Jeremy Sambrooke Bart.

34. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

35. Conquering a Chromatic Passage

36. [A collection of broadsides / by Adam Toppin].

37. The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens

38. Domestic Amusement: Playing on the Guitar

39. The Peep Show

40. Boy Spinning Top

41. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

42. A Man doing the Splits

43. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

44. Position de la Garde Italienne de L'Epée & Poignard

45. Entrance to Pidcock's Exhibition Tent at a Fair

46. Charles Collyer as a Boy, with a Cricket Bat

47. The Harmonious Family

48. Modern Exercise

49. The Travelling Musicians

50. A Country Amusement - Bull Baiting

51. The Travelling Show Man

52. Grown Ladies Taught to Dance

53. A Modern Diversion

54. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

55. Study of a Peep Show with Two Attendant Figures and Two Children

56. A Punch and Judy Show

57. The Angling Party

58. Checkmate

59. Elegant Company Dancing

60. The Browne Family

61. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

62. An Encampment in St. James Park

63. The Fair at Cheltenham

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

65. Pot Fair, Cambridge

66. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

67. Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields

68. Foot Ball played at Market Place, Barnet

69. Coits Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common

70. Four Corners Played at the Swan, Chelsea

71. Trap Ball Played at the Black Prince, Newington, Butts

72. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

73. Vauxhall Gardens

74. Study of a Woman Sewing and a Girl Reading

75. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre