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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Alexander, David (David S.)
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Black, Jeremy, 1955–
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Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
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Craske, Matthew
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Engel, Laura
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Hauptman, William, born 1945
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Langford, Paul
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Leppert, Richard D
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Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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Mowl, Tim
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Myrone, Martin
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Namier, L. B. (Lewis Bernstein), 1888–1960
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Pepys, Samuel, 1633–1703
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exhibition catalog
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Great Britain.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- Bibliography.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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England.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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English wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
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Canaletto, 1697–1768
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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Div copy 1 Richard DeLong Hymnal Collection;
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Croome Park.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellie Hughes.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Aptekar Reeve.
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Thacker, Christopher
Building towers, forming gardens
2002
2
Coaching days of England
1966
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802
2002
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
5
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
6
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Alexander Pope
1985
7
Colley, Linda
Britons
1992
8
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
The roots of romanticism
1999
9
Filtenborg, Troels, 1951–
Between formula and freestyle
2014
10
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
11
Luxury in the eighteenth century
2003
12
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Colorful impressions
c2003
13
White, Jerry, 1949–
London in the eighteenth century
2012
14
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
15
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
16
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
17
"My highest pleasures"
2007
18
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd
2007
19
Hollweg, Pia
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien
c2008
20
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti
c2008
21
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
2008
22
Malcolmson, Robert W
Popular recreations in English society, 1700-1850
1973
23
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1994
24
The restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906
2017
25
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660,
1945
26
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
A preface to eighteenth century poetry
1948
27
Olson, Roberta J. M
Fire in the sky
1998
28
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
'Candidates for fame'
c2005
29
Craske, Matthew
The London trade in monumental sculpture and the development of the imagery of the family in funerary monuments of the period 1720-1760
1992
30
Miller, Amy
Dressed to kill
2007
31
British Museum
Light, time, legacy
[2015]
32
Alexander, David (David S.)
Painters and engraving
1980
33
Moore, Robert Etheridge, 1919–1992
Hogarth's literary relationships
1948
34
Brown, Iain Gordon
Poet & painter
c1984
35
Pool, J. Lawrence (James Lawrence), 1906–
Fighting ships of the Revolution on Long Island Sound, 1775-1783
c1990
36
Beasley, Jerry C
A check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749
[1972]
37
Realism through informality
[1983]
38
Plumb, J. H. (John Harold), 1911–2001
Georgian delights
1980
39
Longaker, John Mark, 1900–
English biography in the eighteenth century
1931
40
Herdt, Anne de
Silhouettes et découpures genevoises des 18e et 19e siècles
1985
41
Wonderwall
[2009]
42
Watkin, David, 1941–2018
The architect king
[2004]
43
18th and 19th century drawings and watercolours
2009
44
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Painting in England 1700-1850
1963
45
Temmem, Julie
Les élv̀es étrangers de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture à Paris au XVIII seècle
1999?
46
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
Flesh in the Age of Reason
2004
47
Pratt, Stephanie, 1958–
American Indians in British art, 1700-1840
c2005
48
Splendour!
2017
49
Brigstocke, Hugh
Refocusing the Grand Tour
[2010]
50
Landscapes of retrospection
c1999
51
Freeman, Rosemary
English emblem books
1948, t.p. 1970
52
Newby, Evelyn
The diary of Joseph Farington
1998
53
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
54
English accents
c2004
55
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Mrs. Harris
1974
56
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
The watercolor drawings of Thomas Rowlandson
1947
57
Griffiths, Antony
German printmaking in the age of Goethe
c1994
58
Shefrin, Jill
Such constant affectionate care
2003
59
"The stage's glory"
c2011
60
Beach, Laura
Spreading canvas
[2016]
61
Enlightening the British
2003
62
Guest, Harriet
Empire, barbarism, and civilisation
2007
63
MacLeod, Anne, 1951–
From an antique land
2012
64
Celebrating Britain
2015
65
Spevack, Marvin
The Harvard concordance to Shakespeare
1973
66
Jonckheere, Koenraad
The auction of King William's paintings, 1713
2008
67
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1995
68
Stafford, Barbara Maria, 1941–
Artful science
c1994
69
Jennings, Mary Adelaide Smith
A Kentish country house;
1894
70
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1995
71
Sheridan, Betsy, 1758–1837
Betsy Sheridan's journal
[1960]
72
Mainz, Valérie
Sensing sculpture at the time of the French Revolution
[2006]
73
Mount, Harry
The reception of Dutch genre painting in England, 1695-1829
1991
74
Nevile, Pran
Beyond the veil
2000
75
Otto, Peter, 1953–
Multiplying worlds
2011
76
Allen, Brian, 1952–
British artists and travellers in Italy in the later 1770s
77
Barker, N. J
Some notes on the bibliography of William Hayley
1960-1962
78
Palmeri, Frank
The cartoon
79
Pinto, John A
Speaking ruins
2012
80
Trading paintings and painters' materials 1550-1800
2019
81
Enlightenment
c2003
82
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
83
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
84
1776
2019
85
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
86
Clayton, Tim
The English print, 1688-1802
©1997
87
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
88
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
89
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
90
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
91
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
92
Eighteenth century English books
1976
93
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
The art of dress
1995
94
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1995
95
An eighteenth century collection of British prints
1997
96
Dolan, Brian
Ladies of the Grand Tour
2001
97
Allen, Brian, 1952–
British watercolours, c.1770-1870
2018
98
Woodfield, Ian
Music of the Raj
2000
99
Kerr, Wm. (William)
Restoration verse, 1660-1715
1930
100
Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945–
The body in Swift and Defoe
1990
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