The collection

Portrait of James Ward

Gilbert Stuart · 1779

Oil on canvas

CC0

Sketch for "Oath on the Rütli" (recto), Female Figure (verso)

Henry Fuseli · 1779–81 (recto); 1785–90 (verso)

Oil on canvas

CC0

Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl

Louis Jean Desprez · 1779–84

Etching and aquatint in brown on cream laid paper

CC0

Box with lid

China · 1779

Cast and chased gold with rubies, sapphires and jade

CC0

St Christopher, Copy from an Engraving? Verso:Part of a Face: Copy from a Plaster Cast: a Daughter of Niobe?

William Blake · ?c.1779–80

Ink on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

Untitled

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1778

Terracotta

CC0

Portrait of a Woman

Augustin Dubourg · 1778

Ivory

CC0

Lady Caroline Howard

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1778

oil on canvas

Public domain

Baco (Bacchus)

Francisco Goya · 1778

etching on heavy laid paper [first edition impression printed in the Calcografia in 1778-79]

Public domain

Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo of the Otsuya (Otsuya uchi Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo), from the series "Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu)"

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1783

Color woodblock print; oban

CC0

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Oil on canvas

CC0

Mrs. John Taylor

Thomas Gainsborough · c. 1778

oil on canvas

Public domain

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), after a Painting by Greuze of 1777

Charles Paul Jérôme de Bréa · 1777

Ivory

CC0

Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir

Thomas Gainsborough · c. 1782–1783

oil on canvas

CC0

Beaker

David Moseley · c. 1780

Silver

CC0

Portrait of Dorothy Beridge, nèe Gladwin

Joseph Wright of Derby · 1777

Oil on canvas

CC0

Andiron

Paul Revere Jr. · c. 1780

Bell metal

CC0

Untitled

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1777

Terracotta

CC0

Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1777–1779

oil on canvas

Public domain

Untitled

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1776–1883

Wood

CC0

Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste Nini · 1776–1883

Ivory

CC0

Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)

Benjamin West · 1776

oil on canvas

Public domain

Portrait Miniature of Benjamin Franklin

Jacques Thouron · 1776–1883

Ivory

CC0

Madame de Saint-Morys (Eléonore Elisabeth Angélique de Beauterne, 1742–1824)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1776

Oil on canvas

CC0