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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
12
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
9
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
8
Paulson, Ronald
6
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
5
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
5
Pointon, Marcia R
5
Alexander, David (David S.)
4
Bindman, David, 1940–
4
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
4
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
4
Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
4
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
4
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
4
Storff, Paul Auguste de
4
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
3
Craske, Matthew
3
De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
3
Engel, Laura
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1,460
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27
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1,442
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45
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2024-2025
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Books
1,325
Archives & Manuscripts
42
Articles & Chapters
39
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
16
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14
Periodicals
13
Computer Files
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1,486
female
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20th century
614
21st century
556
18th century
186
19th century
121
17th century
25
16th century
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history
56
engraving
53
ink drawing
32
watercolor
30
exhibition catalog
29
map
28
aquatint
25
wood engraving
21
armorial bookplates (provenance)
20
etching
15
private press books (publishing)
14
biographie
13
commonplace book
10
biography
9
criticism, interpretation, etc
9
ephemera
9
poem
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8
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
48
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
38
Great Britain.
36
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
30
English poetry -- 18th century.
29
England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
26
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
23
Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
23
Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
22
Art, British -- 18th century.
21
London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
20
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
18
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
18
England.
17
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603–1714.
17
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
17
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
17
English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- Bibliography.
16
Fortification -- Great Britain.
16
Great Britain -- Defenses.
16
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16th century
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Great Britain
525
England
306
London (England)
51
France
46
London
38
Europe
36
United States
36
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25
Scotland
24
India
21
Italy
21
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10
Virginia
8
Canada
7
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7
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7
Rome (Italy)
7
Switzerland
7
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6
Great Britain America
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
23
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
19
Blake, William, 1757–1827
17
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
16
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
16
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
12
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
11
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
8
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
8
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
8
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
7
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
7
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
7
Romney, George, 1734–1802
6
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
6
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
6
Beckford, William, 1760–1844
5
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
5
Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
4
Canaletto, 1697–1768
4
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Exhibition History
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
5
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
4
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
3
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
3
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
2
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
1
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
1
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn
1
Yale Center for British Art, Div copy 1 Richard DeLong Hymnal Collection;
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara R. and Richard C. Glowacki, Yale BA 1954
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles R. Caldwell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Croome Park.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellie Hughes.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Aptekar Reeve.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
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1,404
French
27
German
21
Italian
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Dutch
4
Latin
4
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Haslam, Fiona
From Hogarth to Rowlandson
1996
902
Fannin, Bill Bradfield
William Blake's color print series of 1795
1982
903
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
The general correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
c1993-1997
904
Bentley, G. E. (Gerald Eades), 1930–
Blake records
c2004
905
McClure, Ruth K., 1916–
Coram's children
1981
906
Legg, L. G. Wickham (Leopold George Wickham), b. 1877
Matthew Prior: a study of his public career and correspondence,
1921
907
Tadmor, Naomi
Family and friends in eighteenth-century England
2001
908
Graham, Henry Grey, 1842–1906
Scottish men of letters in the eighteenth century
1901
909
The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities
2015
910
Barrell, John
The birth of Pandora and the division of knowledge
1992
911
Empire's nature
c1998
912
Neville, Sylas
Diary, 1767-1788
1950
913
The tyranny of treatment
2003
914
Brownell, Morris R
Samuel Johnson's attitude to the arts
c1989
915
Pointon, Marcia R
Strategies for showing
1997
916
Pressly, William L., 1944–
The artist as original genius
2007
917
18th and 19th century drawings and watercolours
2008
918
Stewart, Rachel, 1959–
The town house in Georgian London
2009
919
Ward, James, 1769–1859
Breadth & quality
2013
920
Simon, Robin, 1947–
Hogarth, France and British art
2007
921
Robinson, John Martin
James Wyatt (1746-1813)
2012
922
Rifkin, Benjamin A.
Gainsborough
2012
923
Anderson, Misty G., 1967–
Sacred satire
2011
924
National Theatre (Great Britain)
Guide to the Maugham collection of theatrical paintings
c1980
925
Schoenbaum, S. (Samuel), 1927–1996
Shakespeare, the Globe & the world
1979
926
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
The Thrales of Streatham Park
1977
927
Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis), 1856–1925
Oxford in the eighteenth century
1908
928
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
1905
929
Bromwich, David, 1951–
The intellectual life of Edmund Burke
2014
930
Joseph Black, 1728-1799
1982
931
William Blake
1997
932
Elledge, Scott
Eighteenth-century critical essays
[1961]
933
Clarke, Stephen, 1949–
The Strawberry Hill Press & its printing house
2011
934
Quilley, Geoff
Empire to nation
c2011
935
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
English society in the eighteenth century
1991
936
Lahikainen, Amanda
Money and materiality in the golden age of graphic satire
[2022]
937
Catharina, de keizerin en de kunsten = Catherine, the empress and the arts
c1996
938
William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum
2018
939
Dolan, Brian
Ladies of the Grand Tour
2001
940
Salomons, Vera
Gravelot,
1911
941
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's miscellaneous correspondence
1980
942
Fairman, Elisabeth R
Pleasures and pastimes
1990
943
The Other Hogarth
c2001
944
McCracken, Grant David, 1951–
Politics and ritual Sotto Voce
945
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool
2008
946
Langford, Paul
Englishness identified
2000
947
Woodfield, Ian
Music of the Raj
2000
948
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
The Georgians
1990
949
Friedman, Terry
The eighteenth-century church in Britain
c2011
950
Cornforth, John, 1937–
English interiors 1790-1848
1978
951
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's correspondence with the Rev. William Cole
1937
952
Lochhead, Marion
The Scots household in the eighteenth century
1948
953
Ayres, Philip J
Classical culture and the idea of Rome in eighteenth-century England
1997
954
Art in bourgeois society, 1790-1850
c 1998
955
Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London
2007
956
Making the news in 18th-century France
2012
957
Victoria and Albert Museum. Circulation Department
English creamware
[1968]
958
Despoix, Philippe
Patagons et Polynésiens
959
Sheridan, Betsy, 1758–1837
Betsy Sheridan's journal
[1960]
960
Drawing in 18th century Britain
1995
961
Jones, Robert W., Dr
Gender and the formation of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
c1998
962
Vincent, Edgar
Nelson
[2003]
963
Living with the Royal Academy
2013
964
Eighteenth-century studies
965
Bibliography of British history, Stuart period, 1603-1714
1970
966
Johnson, A. F. (Alfred Forbes)
A catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages,
1934 (for 1933)
967
Notorious muse
c2003
968
Brett, Vanessa
Bertrand's toyshop in Bath
2014
969
Hagstrum, Jean H
The sister arts;
[1968, c1958]
970
Ogg, David, 1887–1965
England in the reigns of James II and William III
1969
971
Bickerton, L. M
Eighteenth century English drinking glasses
2000, c1971
972
Blake, Nicholas
The illustrated companion to Nelson's navy
2000
973
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
974
Eisler, William Lawrence, 1948–
The construction of the image of Martin Folkes, 1690-1754
975
Johnston, Carol Ann
"Heavenly perspective"
c1992
976
McCreery, Cindy
The satirical gaze
c2004
977
Tracy, Nicholas, 1944–
Britannia's palette
c2007
978
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1995
979
An eighteenth century collection of British prints
1997
980
Turberville, Arthur Stanley, 1888–1945
English men and manners in the eighteenth century
1929
981
Bindman, David, 1940–
The face as index of the soul
2007
982
Baker, Malcolm, 1945–
The marble index
[2014]
983
Chadwick, Esther
The Radical print
2024
984
Greater London Council
Jewellery from the Hull Grundy Collection
1976
985
Anderson, Howard (Howard Peter)
The familiar letter in the eighteenth century
1966
986
Ettesvold, Paul M
The eighteenth-century woman
c1981
987
Fashioning childhood in the eighteenth century
c2006
988
Art and the British empire
2007
989
Collins, Jeffrey Laird
A nation of statues
990
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's correspondence with the Countess of Upper Ossory
1965
991
Bruhn, Thomas P
A journey to Hindoostan
c1987
992
Bleackley, Horace, 1868–1931
Casanova in England
[1923]
993
Clifford, Helen
Silver in London
c2004
994
Romantic metropolis
2005
995
Spence, Cathryn
Thomas Robins the Elder (1716-1770)
[2006]
996
DeMaria, Robert
Samuel Johnson and the life of reading
1997
997
Rasmussen, William M. S. (William Meade Stith), 1946–
Old Virginia
2003
998
Sedgwick, Romney, 1894–
The House of Commons, 1715-1754
1970
999
Wardroper, John
The world of William Hone
c1997
1000
Chertsey Museum
Costume in Chertsey Museum, 1700-1800
1976
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