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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
5
Alexander, David (David S.)
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
4
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
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Bindman, David, 1940–
3
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
3
Craske, Matthew
3
Engel, Laura
3
Hauptman, William, born 1945
3
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
3
Langford, Paul
3
Leppert, Richard D
3
Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
3
Mowl, Tim
3
Myrone, Martin
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Namier, L. B. (Lewis Bernstein), 1888–1960
3
Pepys, Samuel, 1633–1703
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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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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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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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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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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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England
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of author.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.
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Coaching days of England
1966
2
Thacker, Christopher
Building towers, forming gardens
2002
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
Willis, Sam
Fighting at sea in the eighteenth century
2008
15
Greene, Susan W., 1942–
Wearable prints, 1760-1860
[2014]
16
Caravaggio to Canaletto
[2013]
17
Eglin, John, 1962–
Venice transfigured
2001
18
Blake, Nicholas
The illustrated companion to Nelson's navy
2000
19
Buckridge, Steeve O
The language of dress
2004
20
Bickerton, L. M
Eighteenth century English drinking glasses
2000, c1971
21
Eisler, William Lawrence, 1948–
The construction of the image of Martin Folkes, 1690-1754
22
Martin, Simon
Poets in the landscape
c2007
23
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
24
Peterson, Richard S., 1938–
Laurel crown and ape's tail
25
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
'Candidates for fame'
c2005
26
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
27
British Museum
Light, time, legacy
[2015]
28
Morris, Edward
The Liverpool Academy and other exhibitions of contemporary art in Liverpool 1774-1867
c1998
29
Leach, Stephen D.
The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett
2023
30
Steward, James Christen
The new child
1995
31
Vaughan, Alden T., 1929–
Transatlantic encounters
2006
32
Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)
Queer gardens
33
Jourdain, Margaret
Some eighteenth-century picture frames
34
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
The commerce of cartography
2005
35
Gilman, Todd
The theatre career of Thomas Arne
c2013
36
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
Reynolds
[2014]
37
Peltz, Lucy
Facing the text
[2017]
38
Taylor, David Francis
The politics of parody
[2018]
39
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse,
1926
40
Smith, Greg
The emergence of the professional watercolourist
c2002
41
Isaac, Peter C. G
Checklist of books & periodicals printed by William Bulmer
1961
42
Sharp, Rosalie
China to light up a house
[2015-2016]
43
Taylor, Clare, 1962–
The design, production and reception of eighteenth-century wallpaper in Britain
2018
44
Braham, Helen
A century of silver
2003
45
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
A preface to eighteenth century poetry
1948
46
Olson, Roberta J. M
Fire in the sky
1998
47
William Blake
1997
48
Elledge, Scott
Eighteenth-century critical essays
[1961]
49
Bentley, G. E. (Gerald Eades), 1930–
Blake records
c2004
50
Bawdy bodies
[2016]
51
Haslam, Fiona
From Hogarth to Rowlandson
1996
52
Eger, Elizabeth
Brilliant Women
c2008
53
Clarke, Stephen, 1949–
The Strawberry Hill Press & its printing house
2011
54
Quilley, Geoff
Empire to nation
c2011
55
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
English society in the eighteenth century
1991
56
Lahikainen, Amanda
Money and materiality in the golden age of graphic satire
[2022]
57
Table settings
c2010
58
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
59
Dare to know
2022
60
McInnis, Maurie Dee
In pursuit of refinement
c1999
61
Painting Ireland
2006
62
Myrone, Martin
Bodybuilding
2005
63
Brett, Vanessa
Bertrand's toyshop in Bath
2014
64
Jones, Colin, 1947–
Madame de Pompadour
2002
65
Gerzina, Gretchen
Black England
c1995
66
Paulson, Ronald
Hogarth's harlot
2003
67
The lustrous trade
c2000
68
Notorious muse
c2003
69
Exhibition of early English watercolours
1979
70
Land, nation and culture, 1740-1840
2004
71
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
The Chippendale director
1990
72
Brookes, Patricia, 1933–
The Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, 1760-1801
1989
73
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
74
Great Irish households
2022
75
Bryant, Christopher
A new light on John Singleton Copley's portraits of Major General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Samuel Adams
2014?
76
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
77
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
78
A treasure house in Farmington
1999
79
Fussell, Paul, 1924–2012
The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism;
1965
80
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd
2007
81
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti
c2008
82
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
2008
83
The restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906
2017
84
Miller, Amy
Dressed to kill
2007
85
Hollweg, Pia
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien
c2008
86
Exhibition of 18th and 19th century English watercolours from 16th March until 3rd April, 1965
1965
87
Bromwich, David, 1951–
The intellectual life of Edmund Burke
2014
88
The Spooner collection of British watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery
2005
89
Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der europäischen Druckgraphik im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert =
2007
90
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Letter and Report on the discoveries at Herculaneum
c2011
91
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
92
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
93
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
94
British prints
[1989]
95
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
96
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
97
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
98
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
99
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
100
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
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