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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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Pointon, Marcia R
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Alexander, David (David S.)
4
Bindman, David, 1940–
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Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
4
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
4
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
3
Craske, Matthew
3
Engel, Laura
3
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
3
Hauptman, William, born 1945
3
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Langford, Paul
3
Leppert, Richard D
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Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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Mowl, Tim
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20th century
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21st century
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19th century
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18th century
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history
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exhibition catalog
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biographie
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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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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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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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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
14
England.
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English wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- History and criticism.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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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
6
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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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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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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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.
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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
Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough
1962
5
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
6
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress
[1995?]
7
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
8
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Alexander Pope
1985
9
Colley, Linda
Britons
1992
10
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
The roots of romanticism
1999
11
Hughes, Eleanor
Brave tars and glorious commanders
2016
12
Filtenborg, Troels, 1951–
Between formula and freestyle
2014
13
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
14
Luxury in the eighteenth century
2003
15
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Colorful impressions
c2003
16
White, Jerry, 1949–
London in the eighteenth century
2012
17
Table settings
c2010
18
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse,
1926
19
Smith, Greg
The emergence of the professional watercolourist
c2002
20
Isaac, Peter C. G
Checklist of books & periodicals printed by William Bulmer
1961
21
Sharp, Rosalie
China to light up a house
[2015-2016]
22
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
23
Taylor, Clare, 1962–
The design, production and reception of eighteenth-century wallpaper in Britain
2018
24
Dare to know
2022
25
Bloom, Harold
The visionary company
1961
26
A Lady of fashion
1987
27
Fairest isle
1989]
28
Brothers, Ann, 1940–
A Studio portrait
c1993
29
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891–1974
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740
1959
30
Gilman, Ernest B., 1946–
The curious perspective
1978
31
Greene, Susan W., 1942–
Wearable prints, 1760-1860
[2014]
32
A treasure house in Farmington
1999
33
Brown, Iain Gordon
Poet & painter
c1984
34
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd
2007
35
Hollweg, Pia
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien
c2008
36
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1994
37
Beasley, Jerry C
A check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749
[1972]
38
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
A preface to eighteenth century poetry
1948
39
Olson, Roberta J. M
Fire in the sky
1998
40
Pool, J. Lawrence (James Lawrence), 1906–
Fighting ships of the Revolution on Long Island Sound, 1775-1783
c1990
41
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
42
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
The XVIIIth century in London
1920
43
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
44
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
45
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
46
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
47
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
48
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
49
Eighteenth century English books
1976
50
Hotson, Leslie, 1897–1992
Shakespeare by Hilliard
1977
51
British prints
[1989]
52
Clayton, Tim
The English print, 1688-1802
©1997
53
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
54
The history of the book in the West
2010
55
Studies in eighteenth-century culture
1971-
56
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
2008
57
Purefoy, Henry, 1697–1762
Purefoy letters
1931
58
Leach, Stephen D.
The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett
2023
59
Jourdain, Margaret
Some eighteenth-century picture frames
60
Plumb, J. H. (John Harold), 1911–2001
Georgian delights
1980
61
Herdt, Anne de
Silhouettes et découpures genevoises des 18e et 19e siècles
1985
62
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
'Candidates for fame'
c2005
63
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
64
Miller, Amy
Dressed to kill
2007
65
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti
c2008
66
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
67
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
68
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
69
Enlightenment
c2003
70
"My highest pleasures"
2007
71
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
72
1776
2019
73
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
74
Vose Galleries of Boston
An important group of 18th and 19th century English paintings
1961
75
Paulson, Ronald
Hogarth's harlot
2003
76
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
The Chippendale director
1990
77
Smith, Nicholas D., 1975–
An actor's library
2017
78
McInnis, Maurie Dee
In pursuit of refinement
c1999
79
Haslam, Fiona
From Hogarth to Rowlandson
1996
80
Elledge, Scott
Eighteenth-century critical essays
[1961]
81
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
English society in the eighteenth century
1991
82
William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum
2018
83
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
84
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
85
Britiske mestere 1730-1850
[1949]
86
Downes, Kerry
St George's, Bloomsbury
2008
87
Lenihan, Liam
The writings of James Barry and the genre of history painting, 1775-1809
[2014]
88
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
89
Great Irish households
2022
90
Bryant, Christopher
A new light on John Singleton Copley's portraits of Major General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Samuel Adams
2014?
91
Byrd, Max
London transformed
1978
92
Whitworth Art Gallery
'Upon a painted ocean'
[1982]
93
Markham, Sarah
John Loveday of Caversham, 1711-1789
1984
94
Leppert, Richard D
Music and image
1988
95
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
96
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
97
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
98
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
99
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
100
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
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