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Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1773 January 29
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 23 x 38 cm, folded to 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse.
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
[1753]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letter to John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Date:
1797, between January 16 and March 23
Physical Description:
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Clare Leighton collection, 1949-1953.
Creator:
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Date:
1949-1953
Physical Description:
12 linear feet (1 box + 6 oversize)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital" : manuscript.
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
4 items ; various sizes
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William Field scrapbook.
Creator:
Field, William, 1854–1932
Date:
1895
Physical Description:
1 v. (68 p.) ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Letter from Thomas Clarkson to Thomas Middleditch.
Creator:
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
Date:
1842?
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 19 x 23 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.
Creator:
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874–1962
Date:
1921
Physical Description:
1 volume : ill. ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Mary Linwood letter, to an unidentified recipient, July 27, about trilobite and fossil specimens she has obtained : manuscript.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
circa 1830? July 27
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785.
Creator:
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket : engraving ; 7.5 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961
Date:
ca. 1920-1969
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:
1777-1781
Physical Description:
2 letters ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:
ca. 1840-1985
Physical Description:
2 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1749-1816
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
No cover image available
Creator:
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
Date:
1923
Physical Description:
[4], 191, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1845-1873
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:
1708-1875,
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet (6 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Southall, Joseph E
Date:
1898-1910
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
Date:
1836 December 28
Physical Description:
1 item : illustrations ; 20 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, John, 1945–
Date:
1975-1995
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie
No cover image available
Creator:
Royle, Amy Mabel Fanshawe, 1863–1951
Date:
circa 1894?-1918
Physical Description:
1 volume (8 leaves) : illustrations (drawings, watercolors) ; 20 x 29 cm + 1 dance card, 1 letter, and 1 envelope.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, W. B., fl. 1854
Date:
1854 March 31
Physical Description:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 23 cm + 1 watercolor drawing
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
Date:
1860 April 13
Physical Description:
1 item (1 leaf) ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
No cover image available
Date:
1767-1917
Physical Description:
.84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:
1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Shepperson, Matthew, 1785–1874
Date:
1810-1869
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878–1957
Date:
1950-1957
Physical Description:
.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
No cover image available
Creator:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
84 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1987
Physical Description:
[112] p. in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
No cover image available
Creator:
Clifford, Edward, 1844–1907
Date:
circa 1870-circa 1925
Physical Description:
4 volumes
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
No cover image available
Creator:
Pleasonton, John H.
Date:
1823 June 13
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) : 25 x 40 cm, folded to 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
Date:
1891-1923 (bulk 1914-1918)
Physical Description:
1 box
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
Date:
1841 May 2
Physical Description:
1 item (5 pages) ; 23 x 38 cm, folded to 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1975-2003
Physical Description:
30 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Campbell
No cover image available
Creator:
Hunikin, Ch. L
Date:
1814 June 14
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 23 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Miles & Edwards (London)
Date:
1832-1875
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:
1942
Physical Description:
[2], 5-62, [10] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1854-1855
Physical Description:
9 folded sheets ; 28 x 22 cm, or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:
1961-2011
Physical Description:
15 linear feet (circa 500 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
No cover image available
Creator:
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, 1818–1880
Date:
circa 1813-circa 1864
Physical Description:
2 linear feet (1 volume)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Garnett-Botfield, Helen Stella Alexandrina, 1887–1962
Date:
1918
Physical Description:
1 volume : 70 photographs ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1883-1927
Physical Description:
1 volume (30 pages) : illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Date:
[1834]
Physical Description:
8 prints : engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898
Date:
1886-1896
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Date:
1880-1892
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Courtney, Cathy
Date:
ca. 1977-2003
Physical Description:
1.46 linear foot (4 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cathy Courtney
No cover image available
Date:
1828-1841
Physical Description:
1 volume ([50] pages) ; 24 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1839-1851
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:
circa 1812-1900
Physical Description:
2 linear feet (1 box + 5 volumes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Wareing, Alfred, 1876–1942
Date:
ca. 1891-2007
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Salter Family
No cover image available
Creator:
Royal College of Art (Great Britain). Sketch Club
Date:
1934-1937
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box, 90 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Pegasus Club (England)
Date:
1900 January-1901 March
Physical Description:
2 volumes (approximately 118, 150 pages) : illustrations (drawings, watercolors, photographs) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Date:
1852-1862
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1850-1864,
Physical Description:
90 items (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
King, Ron, 1932–
Date:
1967-2003
Physical Description:
30 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ron King and Willow Legge
No cover image available
Creator:
Norris, Robert Provo, d. 1851
Date:
1846-1854
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
No cover image available
Creator:
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
Date:
ca. 1853-1857
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wootton, Stanley, 1895–1986
Date:
1933-1934
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Date:
1862-ca. 1889
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box, 6 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892
Date:
1863-1914
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box, 27 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Benedict-Jones, Linda
Date:
1972-1992 (bulk 1981-1982)
Physical Description:
5 boxes
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Courtesy Linda Benedict-Jones
No cover image available
Creator:
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Date:
1750-1778
Physical Description:
1 v. ([83] p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Jones family
Date:
1805-1945
Physical Description:
6 boxes
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Riley, Bridget, born 1931
Date:
1964 September 15
Physical Description:
1 item (2 sheets) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bainbridge family
Date:
1760-1821
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Date:
1855-1875
Physical Description:
53 letters (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Date:
ca. 2001-2003
Physical Description:
1 linear foot
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda Brownrigg; Friends of British Art Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
1 item ; 28 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The prettiest love letters in the world : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503 to 1519 / translation and preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1987
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
No cover image available
Creator:
Porcher, Edwin A., 1824–1878
Date:
1849-1861
Physical Description:
6 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Sam, 1908–
Date:
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
Physical Description:
4 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
No cover image available
Creator:
Fisher, John, 1788–1832
Date:
1822-1830
Physical Description:
3 letters ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Love, William, engineer
Date:
1914-1915
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
Florence?,
Physical Description:
1 item ([4] pages) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wicksted, Charles, 1796–1870
Date:
1833-circa 1870
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1840-ca. 1880
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Date:
1944
Physical Description:
79, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1790-1870
Physical Description:
3 linear feet (235 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
James I, King of England, 1566–1625
Date:
circa 1590?
Physical Description:
1 item (4 pages) ; 35 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:
ca. 1750-ca.1850
Physical Description:
approximately 1,500 items
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Date:
1862-1943
Physical Description:
21 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
No cover image available
Date:
1838 October 4
Physical Description:
1 sheet (folded) : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Parker, Henry Perlee, 1795–1873
Date:
1822-1970
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet (1 box, 2 volumes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Nash, Paul, 1889–1946
Date:
1909-1951, bulk 1909-1912
Physical Description:
54 items (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
[2], 5-86, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Date:
September 20, 1797 and February 16, 1798
Physical Description:
2 letters (8 pages) ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Date:
1863-1865
Physical Description:
11 items (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Clutterbuck, Robert, 1772–1831
Date:
1808-1827
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (3 volumes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956
Date:
ca. 1900-1920
Physical Description:
6 linear Feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:
1797-1803
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
201, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill., facsims., ports. : 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
No cover image available
Creator:
A. & S. Henry & Co
Date:
1846 February 6
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; sheet 26 x 42 cm, folded to 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:
1789 July 15
Physical Description:
1 item (3 pages)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Grimston, Rose Armatrude Frances, 1859–1927
Date:
1872-1889
Physical Description:
.42 linear feat (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1854-1860
Physical Description:
0.5 linear feet (1 volume)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Sandby, Thomas, 1723–1798
Date:
1769 September
Physical Description:
1 item ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Date:
circa 1842-circa1845
Physical Description:
1 volume (187 pages, with blanks) ; 23 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Date:
[1828-1829]
Physical Description:
8 prints : engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts