It is incredible that drawings made hundreds of years ago still feature sights and buildings that are recognisable today.
While our gallery focuses on the Yorkshire Coast, we have included a few other familiar places.
Browse our gallery to see Castle Howard only partially completed and Clifford's Tower in very different surroundings to those in which it stands now.
1. Images of Yorkshire
Circa 1750, Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Built for the Earl of Carlisle by architects Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Images of Yorkshire
circa 1807. Clifford's Tower in York, which is the stone keep of a larger castle complex built by Henry III in the thirteenth century. The moat can be seen in the foreground. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
3. Images of Yorkshire
circa. 1813. A huddle of bathing machines trundle into the sea at Scarborough, allowing demure tourists to swim in total privacy. Original Artwork: A print by J Green from Ackermann's 'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough'. Photo: Rischgitz/Getty Images
4. Images of Yorkshire
A woman falls down the steps at Scarborough, England, 1813. From poetical sketches of Scarborough, By Rowlandson after Green. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images