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Reference Library
1,154
Rare Books and Manuscripts
335
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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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1,154
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335
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Under Certain Circumstances
1,460
Free to Use
27
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Unavailable
1,442
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45
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2024-2025
2
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Books
1,325
Archives & Manuscripts
42
Articles & Chapters
39
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
16
Prints
14
Periodicals
13
Computer Files
12
Maps & Atlas (printed)
10
Videos
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Drawings & Watercolors
2
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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unknown
1,486
female
1
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20th century
614
21st century
556
18th century
186
19th century
121
17th century
25
16th century
1
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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
9
graphite drawing
8
catalog
7
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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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18th century
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1,487
16th century
1
17th century
1
19th century
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
525
England
306
London (England)
51
France
46
London
38
Europe
36
United States
36
Ireland
25
Scotland
24
India
21
Italy
21
Russia
10
Virginia
8
Canada
7
China
7
Dublin (Ireland)
7
Rome (Italy)
7
Switzerland
7
England London
6
Great Britain America
6
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Associated People
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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English
1,404
French
27
German
21
Italian
8
Dutch
4
Latin
4
Icelandic
1
Multiple languages
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Polish
1
Undetermined
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Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
The Chippendale director
1990
502
Williams, Iolo Aneurin, 1890–1962
The shorter poems of the eighteenth century
1923
503
Gerzina, Gretchen
Black England
c1995
504
Myrone, Martin
Bodybuilding
2005
505
Exhibition of early English watercolours
1979
506
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838–1903
A history of Ireland in the eighteenth century
1913-1919
507
Murray, Grace A.
Personalities of the eighteenth century
1927
508
Franklin, Colin
A catalogue of early colour printing from chiaroscuro to aquatint
1977
509
Perry, Victoria
A bittersweet heritage
2022
510
Goddard, Richard (Richard Neal Basire)
"The Genius and abilities of the greatest and most rival nations"
[2024]
511
The English prize
2012
512
Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Eighteenth century vignettes
1892
513
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1998
514
Picard, Liza, 1927–
Dr. Johnson's London
2000
515
Toronto Public Libraries
A bibliography of Canadiana
1934
516
White, Elizabeth, 1950–
Pictorial dictionary of British 18th century furniture design
1990
517
Mitchell, Timothy, 1943–
Art and science in German landscape painting, 1770-1840
c1993
518
Hart, Vaughan, 1960–
Sir John Vanbrugh
c2008
519
Carey, Juliet
Theatres of life
2007
520
Davidson, Marshall B
The Horizon history of the world in 1776
[1975]
521
Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
English seventeenth-century verse
[1973-74, c1969]
522
Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne
1882
523
Wilcox, Scott, 1952–
British watercolors
c1985
524
Bickham, Troy O
Savages within the empire
2005
525
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
The British and the grand tour
c1985
526
Postle, Martin
Angels & urchins
1998
527
Atherton, Herbert M
Political prints in the age of Hogarth ;
1974
528
Aufgeklärt bürgerlich
2006
529
Engel, Laura
The art of the actress
2024
530
Smart, Alastair, 1922–
Allan Ramsay
1992
531
Cash, Arthur H. (Arthur Hill), 1922–2016
Laurence Sterne
1992
532
Spring exhibition of oil paintings by English artists of the 18th and 19th century, March 16th to April 3rd, 1965
1965
533
Le Siécle de l'élégance
1959
534
Kökeritz, Helge, 1902–
Shakespeare's pronunciation
1953
535
Atlas of early American history
1976
536
Bindman, David, 1940–
Am I not a man and a brother?
1994
537
Sutton, Denys
The cunning eye of Thomas Rowlandson
538
Harris, Eileen
The country houses of Robert Adam
2007
539
Solkin, David H
Richard Wilson and the British landscape
1978
540
Blackwell, Caitlin
Art of power : masterpieces from the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart
2017
541
Strong, Roy
The Stuart image
2023
542
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782
An Italian sketchbook
1968
543
Payne, Christiana
The agricultural landscape in English painting, c.1785-1885
544
Pargellis, Stanley, 1898–1968
Bibliography of British history;
1951
545
Freed, Eugenie R., 1935–
"A portion of his life"
c1994
546
Georgian Group (London, England). Symposium (1994)
The picturesque in late Georgian England
c1994
547
A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800
1997
548
Dupuy, Pascal, 1955–
L'angleterre face à la revolution
549
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
The letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford
1935
550
Coutu, Joan Michèle, 1964–
Persuasion and propaganda
c2006
551
Blake and conflict
2009
552
Mitchell, Elizabeth Kathleen, 1971–
Death by Hogarth
c1999
553
Shanes, Eric
The golden age of watercolours
c2001
554
Camden, Carroll, 1903–
Restoration and eighteenth-century literature;
[1963]
555
Sharp, Richard, 1953–
The engraved record of the Jacobite movement
1996
556
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1996
557
Freeman, Rosemary
English emblem books
1948, t.p. 1970
558
Enlightening the British
2003
559
Pinto, John A
Speaking ruins
2012
560
Otto, Peter, 1953–
Multiplying worlds
2011
561
Allen, Brian, 1952–
British artists and travellers in Italy in the later 1770s
562
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
The watercolor drawings of Thomas Rowlandson
1947
563
Griffiths, Antony
German printmaking in the age of Goethe
c1994
564
Mainz, Valérie
Sensing sculpture at the time of the French Revolution
[2006]
565
Temmem, Julie
Les élv̀es étrangers de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture à Paris au XVIII seècle
1999?
566
Watkin, David, 1941–2018
The architect king
[2004]
567
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1995
568
Landscapes of retrospection
c1999
569
Shefrin, Jill
Such constant affectionate care
2003
570
Guest, Harriet
Empire, barbarism, and civilisation
2007
571
Flynn, Carol Houlihan, 1945–
The body in Swift and Defoe
1990
572
British landscape painting
1992
573
Exhibition of 18th and 19th century English watercolours from 8th March unti 26th March, 1966
1966
574
Yarker, Gwen
Georgian faces
c2010
575
18th and 19th century British drawings and watercolours
2011
576
Fame & friendship
2014]
577
Hart, Vaughan, 1960–
Nicholas Hawksmoor
c2002
578
Jonckheere, Koenraad
The auction of King William's paintings, 1713
2008
579
Stafford, Barbara Maria, 1941–
Artful science
c1994
580
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's correspondence with Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Mrs. Harris
1974
581
Floryan, Margrethe
Gardens of the tsars
c1996
582
Angelica Kauffman
[2020]
583
Maggs Bros
A catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland
1944
584
Müller, Anja, 1969 Sept. 24–
Framing childhood in eighteenth-century English periodicals and prints, 1689-1789
c2009
585
Underdown, David
Fire from heaven
1992
586
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Private correspondence of Chesterfield and Newcastle, 1744-46
1930
587
Coltman, Viccy
Fabricating the antique
2006
588
Watt, Patrick (Military historian)
Wild and majestic
2019
589
Roman, Cynthia E
Is it any good?
c2023
590
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Check-list or brief catalogue of the library of Henry E. Huntington (English literature to 1640)
1919
591
Eighteenth-century art worlds
2019
592
Graziani, Irene
William Keable, Joseph Nollekens e James Barry
[2020]
593
Strobel, Heidi A., 1968–
The artistic matronage of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)
c2011
594
Bayard, Jane
From drawing to painting
1982
595
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859–1944
A Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640
1926
596
Fothergill, Brian
Beckford of Fonthill
1979
597
Reade, Aleyn Lyell, 1876–
Johnsonian gleanings
1922-
598
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
599
Engel, Laura
Artful nature
[2020]
600
Marlais, Michael Andrew
Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the origins of French landscape painting
2004
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