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Asia! Thy trade, thy silks and spicy stores, But ill compensate for a Land of Slaves, Whilst Liberty disdains to bless thy Shores, And Luxury thy nerv'less sons depraves
James Moore
ca. 1760
A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use, with a great variety of sections of rooms, from a common room to the most grand and magnificent...
Abraham Swan
[1768] (?)
Plate 3 from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"
Jean Pillement
1755
Six New Designs for Convenient Farm-Houses. Parts I & II, 1751
William Halfpenny
1750–51
Hatred or Jealousy, plate 20 from "Heads Representing the Various Passions of the Soul; as they are Expressed in the Human Countenance: Drawn by that Great Master Monsieur Le Brun"
Anonymous, British, 18th century
1765
Spilletta
Richard Purcell
1755–66
Anger, plate 19 from "Heads Representing the Various Passions of the Soul; as they are Expressed in the Human Countenance: Drawn by that Great Master Monsieur Le Brun"
Anonymous, British, 18th century
1765
Plate 5 from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"
Jean Pillement
1755
A Sea Storm
Joseph Vernet
1752–64
Chinese Acute Angular Palings
William Halfpenny
1750
Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste, Being Above Fifty Intire [sic] New Designs of Plans, Sections, Elevations, etc. ...for Gardens, Parks, Forests, Woods, Canals, etc.
Charles Over
[1760s] (?)
The Right Honorable William Pitt, Esq., Late one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Richard Houston
1761
O' The Roast Beef of Old England &c.
William Hogarth
1749–94
Plate 3, from "Heads, Representing the Various Passions of the Soul; as they are Expressed in the Human Countenance: Drawn by that Great Master Monsieur Le Brun"
Anonymous, British, 18th century
1765
The Builder's Companion
William Pain
1799
Sir Joshua Reynolds
James Watson
1770
The Pantomime Players [School piece or Penmanship sheet]
Robert Sayer
before 1748
Virgin and Child
Robert Laurie
1772
The Grace (or The Bourbonnois Grace), from Sterne's "Sentimental Journey"
John Raphael Smith
July 10, 1775
Useful Architecture...in twenty-five designs, with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage houses, farm houses and inns
William Halfpenny
1755
Mrs. Cholmondley (Henrietta Catherine Cholmley)
Richard Purcell
1761
A New Book of Shields Composed of Variety of Ornaments and Trophies Calculated for the Use of Artificers in General
J. Collins
1735–85
The Builder's Companion, And Workman's General Assistant; Demonstrating...All The Principal Rules of Architecture, From The Plan to the Ornamental Finish; ..Also, The Figure, Description, and Use of a new-invented Joint-Rule...
William Pain
1758
Rapture, plate 7 from "Heads Representing the Various Passions of the Soul; as they are Expressed in the Human Countenance: Drawn by that Great Master Monsieur Le Brun"
Anonymous, British, 18th century
1765
A View of the Gardens at Oatlands in Surrey, belonging to the Right Hon-ble. the Earl of Lincoln
Jean Pillement
1750–70
A Connoisseur and Tired Boy
Philip Dawe
November 22, 1773
Frances Anne Crewe (née Greville), Lady Crewe
Richard Purcell
ca. 1762
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
ca. 1760
A Book of Shields
Matthias Lock
February 3, 1768
Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented...
William Halfpenny
1752
The Modern Builder's Assistant: or a Concise Epitome of the Whole System of Architecture
William Halfpenny
1742
Calm
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain
ca. 1745–58
Ornamental Floral Design
Jean Pillement
ca. 1755–75
Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 5)
William Hogarth
1725–68
The Nutting Villager
Robert Sayer
June 10, 1786
A Vestal Virgin
William Humphrey
December 1, 1770
Frances Capel, Countess of Essex
Richard Purcell
1756–66
Starting of Game
Anonymous, British, 18th century
September 21, 1782
Compassion, plate 15 from "Heads Representing the Various Passions of the Soul; as they are Expressed in the Human Countenance: Drawn by that Great Master Monsieur Le Brun"
Anonymous, British, 18th century
1765
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting in the Year 1771
Richard Earlom
May 20, 1772