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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Birch, G
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Cameron, Emy E.
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Carr family
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Churchyard, Harriet, 1836–1926
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Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
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Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
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Davy, Henry, active 1829
1
Fenton, Ellen, b. ca. 1813
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Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
1
Fuller, Edmund George, 1858–1940
1
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
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Hamilton, Frederick William, Sir, 1815–1890
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Hammer, G
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Horton, Westley, 1846–1910
1
Humble, Michael M
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Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
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Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865–1916
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John Hardman & Co
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Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
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2023-2024
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
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unknown
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19th century
48
18th century
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20th century
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17th century
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vellum (parchment)
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watercolor (paint)
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sketchbook
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graphite drawing
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ink drawing
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travel sketche
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landscape drawing
14
albums (books)
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children's art
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botanical illustration
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wash drawing
6
portrait
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view
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engraving
4
caricature
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lithograph
3
marine drawing
3
photograph
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albumen print
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
2
chromolithograph
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Switzerland -- Pictorial works.
4
Women in natural history.
4
Germany -- Pictorial works.
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Italy -- Pictorial works.
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Ships in art.
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Women travelers -- Great Britain.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
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Butterflies -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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Caterpillars -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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Devon (England) -- Pictorial works.
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Domestic space -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
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Entomology -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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France -- Description and travel.
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Germany -- Description and travel.
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Grand tours (Education)
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Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
2
Lepidoptera -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Moths -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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20th century
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18th century
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Great Britain
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Switzerland
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Germany
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Italy
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Devon (England)
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France
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Land's End (England)
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Naples (Italy)
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Belgium
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Broadstairs (England)
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Calabria (Italy)
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Campania (Italy)
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Chudleigh (England)
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
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Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852–1928
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Augustus II, King of Poland, 1670–1733
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Backhouse, Edward, 1808–1879
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Backhouse, John Mounsey
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Backhouse, Lucy Backhouse, 1812–1872
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Backhouse, Rachel, 1826–1898
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Backhouse, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1810–1857
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Backus family
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Balfour, Arthur James, 1848–1930
1
Barclay, Ann Ford, 1822–1913
1
Barclay, Elizabeth Gurney
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Brand, John, 1744–1806
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Brookes, Samuel, d. 1838 or 9
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Browne, William, 1590–approximately 1645
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Carr family
1
Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797–1872
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Carr, Backhouse, 1727 or 8–1796
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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)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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English
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German
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Luxmoore, Mary
Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay
circa 1830
2
Grand tour watercolor albums
1793-1842
3
Yelloly, Sophia Mary, 1811–1840
Yelloly family watercolor albums
1827-1839
4
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks
1805-1822
5
Stapley, W. B.
Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley
1855-1870
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Fenton, Ellen, b. ca. 1813
Ellen Fenton diaries
1854-1862
7
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
North & south Devonshire
1840
8
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Sketchbook
circa 1830
9
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
Sketchbook
circa 1811
10
Album of watercolors of British birds
circa 1820-circa 1830
11
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877
Album of maritime and figure sketches
1849 September 4-1850 April 22
12
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
13
Album of domestic interiors and figures in fashionable dress
circa 1860
14
Churchyard, Harriet, 1836–1926
Sketchbook
late 19th century
15
K. M. T
Flowers of Skye
1899-1901
16
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
17
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
18
Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Sketchbooks of tours in Italy
1792, July 21-1793, April 12
19
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby
circa 1859-1872
20
Birch, G
Original sketches by an officer
1840?
21
John Hardman & Co
John Hardman & Co. album of stained glass designs
ca. 1850-ca. 2000
22
Paget, John, 1811–1898
Album of drawings, etchings, and watercolors
1829-1843 (bulk 1832-1834)
23
Madocks, John Edward, 1760–1806
Archery
1787
24
Drawings of religious orders
circa [1800?]
25
Maxwell, James Scott, ca. 1845–1922
Sketchbook of British and American steam yachts, sailing vessels, paddle steamers, and warships
1888-1889
26
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Charles Robert Leslie collection,
circa 1812-1900
27
Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life
1869-1872
28
Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795–1837
Sixty-four original designs & drawings illustrative of Cowper's poems &c. by H. St. Storer
1822
29
Fuller, Edmund George, 1858–1940
Edmund G. Fuller sketchbooks
approximately 1892-1923
30
Drawings of Peruvian costume
ca. 1820?
31
Kultur, civilization, marooned
circa 1912
32
Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
Cecilia Fitzgerald-de-Ros sketchbook
1820s
33
Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865–1916
Ironclads of the world
1884-1889
34
Ridout, Louisa, 1785–1860
Sketchbook of tradesperson fashions in northern France
1815 December 21-1817 November 18
35
Hamilton, Frederick William, Sir, 1815–1890
Drawings of mosaics, carvings, and other patterned ornament
1878 April-1886 July
36
My likes and dislikes
1872?
37
Hammer, G
Geweih Sammlung in dem Koeniglichem Jagdschloss Mortizburg nach der natur gemalt von Guido Hammer, Dresden, 1863
1863
38
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Sketchbooks
1866-1900
39
R. W.
Album of landscapes, figures, and copies
1850-1851
40
Skelly, Louisa
Sketchbook of a visit to the Continent
[ca. 1850?]
41
Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
[Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures]
[ca. 1829?]
42
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810
43
Humble, Michael M
Sketchbook
1844
44
Davy, Henry, active 1829
Original drawings for A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk
1817-1828
45
Carr family
Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material,
1699-1981
46
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Mary Leighton collection,
1824-1860
47
Wicksteed, Mary Frances
Album of watercolors from travels in Europe
circa 1878-1881
48
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Album of sketches in the Rhine River Valley and Switzerland
1844-1891
49
Cameron, Emy E.
Daily chronicle
1887 August 1-1888 July 12
50
Horton, Westley, 1846–1910
Illustrations to The rime of the ancient mariner
1891
51
Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
A book of maps
1777
52
Backhouse and Mounsey collection,
1819-1856