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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
3
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
3
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
2
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
2
A. & S. Henry & Co
1
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
1
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
1
Bainbridge family
1
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961
1
Benedict-Jones, Linda
1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, 1818–1880
1
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956
1
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
1
Britton, John, 1771–1857
1
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
1
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
1
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
99
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Under Certain Circumstances
96
Free to Use
3
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Unavailable
89
Available
10
New Additions
2023-2024
1
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Archives & Manuscripts
86
Books
10
Prints
2
Dissertations & Theses
1
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19th century
59
20th century
41
18th century
17
21st century
6
16th century
1
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correspondence
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ink drawing
16
photograph
15
graphite drawing
9
watercolor
7
wood engraving
7
diarie
6
engraving
6
clippings (information artifacts)
5
drawings (visual works)
5
ephemera
5
private press books (publishing)
5
albumen print
4
artists' book
4
commonplace book
4
notebook
4
photograph album
4
prospectuse
4
scrapbook
4
clipping
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Painters -- Great Britain.
14
Artists -- Great Britain.
9
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
9
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
6
Painting -- Great Britain.
5
Painting, British -- 19th century.
5
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
5
Art, British.
4
Artists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
4
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
4
Photography.
4
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 -- Correspondence.
4
Sculpture -- Great Britain.
4
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519 -- Correspondence.
3
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898.
3
Circle Press.
3
King, Ron, 1932–
3
Painting, British.
3
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
3
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900. Modern painters.
3
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19th century
13
20th century
4
16th century
3
18th century
3
Associated Places
Great Britain
45
England
8
London
4
Italy
3
India
2
Papal States
2
Africa, North
1
Antwerp (Belgium)
1
Belgium
1
Birmingham
1
Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
1
British Isles
1
Brussels (Belgium)
1
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
1
Carthage (Extinct city)
1
Cassiobury Park (Watford, England)
1
China
1
China Sea
1
Church buildings Great Britain
1
Cyprus
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Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
5
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
4
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
4
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547
3
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Hunt, William Holman, 1827–1910
3
King, Ron, 1932–
3
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896
3
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
3
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961
2
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821–1893
2
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806–1861
2
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
2
Clark, Kenneth, 1903–1983
2
Constable, John, 1776–1837
2
Courtney, Cathy
2
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
2
Heaton, Ellen, 1816–1894
2
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
2
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Exhibition History
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
1
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
17
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Courtesy Linda Benedict-Jones
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cathy Courtney
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Campbell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda Brownrigg; Friends of British Art Fund
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ron King and Willow Legge
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Salter Family
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
1
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29
1773 January 29
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse
[1753]
3
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Letter to John Thomas Smith
1797, between January 16 and March 23
4
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Clare Leighton collection,
1949-1953
5
Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital"
1837
6
Field, William, 1854–1932
William Field scrapbook
1895
7
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
Letter from Thomas Clarkson to Thomas Middleditch
1842?
8
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874–1962
Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta
1921
9
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Mary Linwood letter, to an unidentified recipient, July 27, about trilobite and fossil specimens she has obtained
circa 1830? July 27
10
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785
1785
11
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant letters to Kenneth Clark and Jane Clark,
ca. 1920-1969
12
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letters to his sister Mrs. Mary Gibbon,
1777-1781
13
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Edward Lear archive,
ca. 1840-1985
14
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Joshua Reynolds archive,
1749-1816
15
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
153 letters from W.H. Hudson
1923
16
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin letters to Thomas Goff Lupton,
1845-1873
17
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens,
1708-1875,
18
Southall, Joseph E
Joseph Southall archive,
1898-1910
19
Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient
1836 December 28
20
Christie, John, 1945–
John Christie archive,
1975-1995
21
Royle, Amy Mabel Fanshawe, 1863–1951
Eaton Mascott alphabet
circa 1894?-1918
22
Taylor, W. B., fl. 1854
Letter to Charles Taylor, with watercolor Union Jack
1854 March 31
23
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
Letter from Albert, Prince Consort, to Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
1860 April 13
24
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence,
1767-1917
25
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray,
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
26
Shepperson, Matthew, 1785–1874
Matthew Shepperson archive,
1810-1869
27
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878–1957
Paul Oppé letters to Janet Camp Troxell,
1950-1957
28
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Messer Pietro mio
1985
29
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Harriet & Mary
1944
30
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
31
Clifford, Edward, 1844–1907
Edward Clifford scrapbooks
circa 1870-circa 1925
32
Pleasonton, John H.
John H. Pleasonton letter to his father, 1823 June 13
1823 June 13
33
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
Ethel Beatrice Angear archive
1891-1923 (bulk 1914-1918)
34
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
John Le Capelain letter to J.J. Gabousel
1841 May 2
35
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Ken Campbell archive,
1975-2003
36
Hunikin, Ch. L
Ch. L. Hunikin letter to "My Dear Mary" of Castelton near Newport
1814 June 14
37
Miles & Edwards (London)
Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence,
1832-1875
38
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Shaw-Ede
1942
39
Caldecote Journal
1854-1855
40
Shirley Smith, Richard
Roger W. Moss collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith,
1961-2011
41
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, 1818–1880
Album of letters to David Roberts
circa 1813-circa 1864
42
Garnett-Botfield, Helen Stella Alexandrina, 1887–1962
Alexandrina Garnett-Botfield album of the Aston Hall Auxiliary Military Hospital
1918
43
Art notices
1883-1927
44
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1834]
45
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898
Philip Hermogenes Calderon correspondence from John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton,
1886-1896
46
Whyte family correspondence,
1880-1892
47
Courtney, Cathy
Cathy Courtney collection of artists' books ephemera,
ca. 1977-2003
48
Letters concerning paintings in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1828-1841
49
Britton, John, 1771–1857
John Britton archive,
1839-1851
50
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Charles Robert Leslie collection,
circa 1812-1900
51
Wareing, Alfred, 1876–1942
Alfred Wareing archive,
ca. 1891-2007
52
Royal College of Art (Great Britain). Sketch Club
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection,
1934-1937
53
Pegasus Club (England)
Pegasus
1900 January-1901 March
54
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Edward Burne-Jones Letters to Cormell Price,
1852-1862
55
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton,
1850-1864,
56
King, Ron, 1932–
Daniel King Circle Press archive,
1967-2003
57
Norris, Robert Provo, d. 1851
Robert Provo Norris Collection,
1846-1854
58
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
Photography
ca. 1853-1857
59
Wootton, Stanley, 1895–1986
Stanley Wootton archive,
1933-1934
60
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Edward Burne-Jones letters to John Ruskin,
1862-ca. 1889
61
Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis,
1863-1914
62
Benedict-Jones, Linda
Linda Benedict-Jones archive,
1972-1992 (bulk 1981-1982)
63
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR
1750-1778
64
Jones family
Jones family archive
1805-1945
65
Riley, Bridget, born 1931
Letter from Bridget Riley to Rose Gerlach, 1964 September 15
1964 September 15
66
Bainbridge family
Bainbridge deer park management archive,
1760-1821
67
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton,
1855-1875
68
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Poetry Box archive,
ca. 2001-2003
69
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
Robert Bruce letter concerning the wax sculpture of his mother, Rose Bruce
1807
70
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
71
Porcher, Edwin A., 1824–1878
Edwin Augustus Porcher collection
1849-1861
72
Smith, Sam, 1908–
Sam Smith collection,
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
73
Fisher, John, 1788–1832
Archdeacon John Fisher letters to John Constable
1822-1830
74
Love, William, engineer
Patent application for a minesweeping device
1914-1915
75
Wicksted, Charles, 1796–1870
Charles Wicksted commonplace book
1833-circa 1870
76
Letters to Richard Redgrave,
ca. 1840-ca. 1880
77
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Shelley at Oxford
1944
78
Pugin family archive,
ca. 1790-1870
79
James I, King of England, 1566–1625
Letter from James I to an unidentified recipient
circa 1590?
80
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
James Bruce archive,
ca. 1750-ca.1850
81
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Hubert von Herkomer archive,
1862-1943
82
Letter to Anthony Abbott on the mixing and use of paint colors
1838 October 4
83
Parker, Henry Perlee, 1795–1873
Henry Perlee Parker collection,
1822-1970
84
Nash, Paul, 1889–1946
Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley
1909-1951, bulk 1909-1912
85
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld
1953
86
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Letters to Edmund Cartwright
September 20, 1797 and February 16, 1798
87
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to William Houghton Clabburn,
1863-1865
88
Clutterbuck, Robert, 1772–1831
Collection of letters to Robert Clutterbuck concerning his History and antiquities of the county of Hertford,
1808-1827
89
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956
Frank Brangwyn archive,
ca. 1900-1920
90
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures
1797-1803
91
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Letters to his son
1973
92
A. & S. Henry & Co
A. & S. Henry & Co. letter to I. Edmondson & Co., requesting samples of woolen goods
1846 February 6
93
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Joseph Wright of Derby letter to Daniel Daulby
1789 July 15
94
Grimston, Rose Armatrude Frances, 1859–1927
Grimston family correspondence,
1872-1889
95
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin letters to John Henry Le Keux,
1854-1860
96
Sandby, Thomas, 1723–1798
Thomas Sandby letter to Sir William Chambers
1769 September
97
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Family records collected by William Dorset Fellowes
circa 1842-circa1845
98
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1828-1829]
99
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999
Paul and Rachel Mellon dealer files,
1933-1997