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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
2
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
2
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
2
A.J.K.H.
1
Birch, G
1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
1
Boughey, Anastasia Elizabeth, ca. 1817–1893
1
Byron, Jane
1
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
1
Cowell, John
1
Crompton-Stansfield, Mary Evelyn Maude, 1862–1946
1
D. C
1
Davison, William, 1798–1870
1
Dawes, Charles Thomas, 1793–1863
1
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
1
Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
1
Fuller, Edmund George, 1858–1940
1
G. C. T
1
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
1
Hamilton, Frederick William, Sir, 1815–1890
1
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
65
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Under Certain Circumstances
60
Free to Use
5
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Unavailable
47
Available
18
New Additions
2024-2025
1
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Drawings & Watercolors
38
Archives & Manuscripts
21
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
1
Prints
1
Creator Gender
unknown
65
Period
19th century
60
18th century
5
20th century
4
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ink
1
wove paper
1
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ink drawing
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sketchbook
65
watercolor
37
graphite drawing
36
travel sketche
17
landscape drawing
12
wash drawing
10
albums (books)
9
portrait
8
caricature
6
children's art
6
marine drawing
6
botanical illustration
5
humorous picture
4
lithograph
4
view
4
engraving
3
scientific illustration
3
albumen print
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
2
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
5
Italy -- Pictorial works.
5
Ships in art.
5
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
4
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Devon (England) -- Pictorial works.
3
Women in natural history.
3
Animals in art.
2
Botany -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Bristol (England) -- Pictorial works.
2
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813.
2
Butterflies -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
2
Caterpillars -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain.
2
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881.
2
Dogs -- Pictorial works.
2
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
2
Drawing -- Technique.
2
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Subject Period
19th century
14
20th century
2
18th century
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
28
Italy
5
Devon (England)
3
France
3
Switzerland
3
Bristol (England)
2
England
2
Germany
2
Hampshire (England)
2
India
2
Land's End (England)
2
Lynmouth (England)
2
Scotland
2
Yorkshire (England)
2
Alnwick (England)
1
Barnstaple (England)
1
Basel (Switzerland)
1
Bath (England)
1
Bern (Switzerland)
1
Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
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Associated People
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
3
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
2
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
2
Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
2
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
2
Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852–1928
1
Backhouse, Edward, 1808–1879
1
Backhouse, John Mounsey
1
Backhouse, Lucy Backhouse, 1812–1872
1
Backhouse, Rachel, 1826–1898
1
Backhouse, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1810–1857
1
Backus family
1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848–1930
1
Barclay, Ann Ford, 1822–1913
1
Barclay, Elizabeth Gurney
1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
1
Brand, John, 1744–1806
1
Brookes, Samuel, d. 1838 or 9
1
Browne, William, 1590–approximately 1645
1
Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
1
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
4
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
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English
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Luxmoore, Mary
Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay
circa 1830
2
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
3
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
4
Stapley, W. B.
Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley
1855-1870
5
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks
1805-1822
6
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Sketchbook
circa 1830
7
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
North & south Devonshire
1840
8
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Drawings of houses and gardens
1736-1743
9
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
Sketchbook
circa 1811
10
A.J.K.H.
Album of comic sketches
1869-1873
11
Hancock, John, 1804–1839
Drawings and notebooks on porcelain painting
circa 1821-1836
12
Album of watercolors of British birds
circa 1820-circa 1830
13
Cowell, John
Sketches of John & George from home
June 25th, 1842
14
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877
Album of maritime and figure sketches
1849 September 4-1850 April 22
15
Album of animal drawings and lithographs
1832-1834
16
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Record books
1829-1864
17
Album of domestic interiors and figures in fashionable dress
circa 1860
18
Moser, Robert James, 1828–1908
Drawings of London street life
1888
19
Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Sketchbooks of tours in Italy
1792, July 21-1793, April 12
20
Davison, William, 1798–1870
Album of maritime sketches at Hartlepool
1831-1854
21
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby
circa 1859-1872
22
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
23
G. C. T
Out for a holiday
1880, August 10-1881, August 15
24
Boughey, Anastasia Elizabeth, ca. 1817–1893
Album of embroidery designs
circa 1840
25
Sketchbook of English cathedral sculpture and women's hats
approximately 1876
26
[Views of St. Mary's Church and Nash's Field, Herriard]
[1836]
27
Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
Cecilia Fitzgerald-de-Ros sketchbook
1820s
28
Paget, John, 1811–1898
Album of drawings, etchings, and watercolors
1829-1843 (bulk 1832-1834)
29
Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life
1869-1872
30
Artist's sketchbook,
circa 1809?
31
Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795–1837
Sixty-four original designs & drawings illustrative of Cowper's poems &c. by H. St. Storer
1822
32
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Charles Robert Leslie collection,
circa 1812-1900
33
Madocks, John Edward, 1760–1806
Archery
1787
34
Fuller, Edmund George, 1858–1940
Edmund G. Fuller sketchbooks
approximately 1892-1923
35
Specimens of architecture, Grecian & Gothic
circa 1830
36
Richardson, A. G
Specimens of drawing
1862
37
Crompton-Stansfield, Mary Evelyn Maude, 1862–1946
Yorkshire sketchbook
approximately 1880
38
Mouton
[Sketchbook from travels in Switzerland and France]
[September 1869]
39
Maxwell, James Scott, ca. 1845–1922
Sketchbook of British and American steam yachts, sailing vessels, paddle steamers, and warships
1888-1889
40
Kultur, civilization, marooned
circa 1912
41
Birch, G
Original sketches by an officer
1840?
42
John Hardman & Co
John Hardman & Co. album of stained glass designs
ca. 1850-ca. 2000
43
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
Italy sketchbook
1843
44
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Sketchbook, with copies of work by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, and other artists
1840-1841
45
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Sketches of Lynmouth, Bath and Clifton
approximately 1834-approximately 1849
46
Byron, Jane
[Drawing book]
1801
47
Hamilton, Frederick William, Sir, 1815–1890
Drawings of mosaics, carvings, and other patterned ornament
1878 April-1886 July
48
[Drawings of English landscapes and villages]
[1864-1865]
49
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Mary Leighton collection,
1824-1860
50
Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865–1916
Ironclads of the world
1884-1889
51
D. C
[Sketchbook of views in Britain]
1834-1861
52
Heathorn, Thomas Bridges, 1831–1911
The griffinage of the Hon. Newman Strange
1862
53
Mountlove, Anna
Sketchbook
1867-1869
54
[Mr. Brisk's travels in Scotland]
[1845]
55
Dawes, Charles Thomas, 1793–1863
Diary, sketchbook, and translation of Virgil's Aeneid
ca. 1813-ca.1863
56
Sketchbook containing views of Boulogne and the south of England, including Folkestone, Dover, and Brighton
1860s
57
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Sketchbooks
1866-1900
58
R. W.
Album of landscapes, figures, and copies
1850-1851
59
Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
[Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures]
[ca. 1829?]
60
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810
61
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Album of sketches in the Rhine River Valley and Switzerland
1844-1891
62
Martin, Charles William, 1850–1895
Drawings by Charles William Martin
1866
63
Horton, Westley, 1846–1910
Illustrations to The rime of the ancient mariner
1891
64
Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
A book of maps
1777
65
Backhouse and Mounsey collection,
1819-1856