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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
3
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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
Available
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
2
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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
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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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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
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Polish
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Folger Shakespeare Library
Letterwriting in Renaissance England
c2004
702
Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)
Sister arts
c2011
703
Pickpocketing the rich
2002
704
O'Connell, Sheila
London
c2003
705
Kramer, Jack, 1927–
Women of flowers
c2005
706
Lowell Libson Ltd
Recent acquisitions
2019
707
Art on the line
c2001
708
Stewart, Margaret (Art historian)
The architectural, landscape and constitutional plans of the Earl of Mar, 1700-32
[2016]
709
Foxon, David F. (David Fairweather)
English verse 1701-1750
1975
710
British landscape painting
1994
711
Christie, Manson & Woods
The collector
[2020]
712
Figures of empire
2014
713
Ponzi, Frank
Ísland á átjándu öld
c1980
714
Davis & Long Company
English watercolors
[1980]
715
Hauptman, William
La Suisse sublime
c1991
716
Roscoe, Edward Stanley, 1849–1932
The English scene in the eighteenth century,
1912
717
A catalogue of letters and other historical documents exhibited in the library at Welbeck;
1903
718
Draper, James David
Playing with fire
c2004
719
Of the moment
2006
720
Travel and tourism in Britain, 1700-1914
©2014
721
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1990
722
Scarisbrick, Diana
Elihu Yale
2014
723
Massing, Ann
Painting restoration before La Restauration
2012
724
Riggs, Timothy A., 1942–
Witnesses to an age in transformation
2006
725
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
English society in the eighteenth century
1982
726
Hart, Katherine W
James Gillray
1994
727
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Memoirs of the Court of England, from the revolution in 1688 to the death of George the Second
1901
728
Pfau, Thomas, 1960–
Wordsworth's profession
c1997
729
Conway, Alison Margaret
Private interests
2001
730
Cornforth, John, 1937–
Early Georgian interiors
c2004
731
Midgley, Clare, 1955–
Feminism and empire
2007
732
Broglio, Ron, 1966–
Technologies of the picturesque
c2008
733
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
Candidates for fame
2006
734
Howes, Jennifer
Illustrating India
2010
735
White, Jerry, 1949–
A great and monstrous thing
2012
736
Spreading canvas
2016
737
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805–1875
History of England
1870
738
Wroth, Warwick William, 1858–1911
The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century,
1896
739
Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
2003
740
The eighteenth-century body
c2002
741
Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967–
The decline of life
2004
742
Blake, Erin C
Zograscopes, perspective prints, and the mapping of polite space in mid-eighteenth-century England
2000
743
Sandon, John
The Ewers-Tyne collection of Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood
2008
744
Jones, Rica
The making of Gainsborough's early landscapes
[2018]
745
Ground layers in European painting, 1550-1750
2020
746
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Johnson and Boswell in Scotland
1993
747
Alexander, David (David S.)
Affecting moments
1993
748
Yale Center for British Art
Canaletto to Constable
©1998
749
Tobin, Beth Fowkes
Picturing imperial power
1999
750
Martin, Peter, 1940–
A life of James Boswell
2000
751
Wade Martins, Susanna, 1946–
The English model farm
c2002
752
Wade Martins, Susanna, 1946–
Farmers, landlords and landscapes
c2004
753
Lord, Peter, 1948–
The meaning of pictures
c2009
754
Peacock, Molly, 1947–
The paper garden
c2010
755
Huxley, Thomas
Thomas Graham and his Perthshire estates
2012
756
Lemonedes, Heather
British drawings
2013
757
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
An illustrated journey round the world
2007
758
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's correspondence with Sir Horace Mann
1954-1971
759
Barker, Elizabeth E
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool
2007
760
Curran, C. P
Riverstown House, Glanmire, Co. Cork, and the Francini
196-?]
761
Paulson, Ronald
Toward the Constable bicentenary
762
Kirkham, Donald
Sculptural busts of John Wesley
[2019]
763
Grolier Club
Catalogve of original and early editions of some of the poetical and prose works of English writers from Langland to Wither
1963
764
Gent, Lucy
Picture and poetry 1560-1620
1981
765
Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
The diary of Joseph Farington
1978-1984
766
Pepys, Samuel, 1633–1703
The illustrated Pepys
1978
767
Paulson, Ronald
Breaking and remaking
c1989
768
English landscape paintings
[19--?]
769
Cockle, Maurice J. D. (Maurice James Draffen)
A bibliography of military books up to 1642
[1957]
770
Nixon, John, -1818
A Georgian comedy of manners
1994]
771
Isikoff, Erin Lisa
The culture of gentility and the politics of the open elite
1995
772
Buxton, John
Elizabethan taste
1963
773
Hardwick, Mollie
Emma, Lady Hamilton
1969
774
Grossman, Loyd
Benjamin West and the struggle to be modern
2015
775
Glen, Robert
Man or beast?
776
Sykas, Philip Anthony
Fustians in Englishmen's dress
777
Quilley, Geoffrey
The imagery of travel in British painting
1998
778
Avery, Derek
Georgian & regency architecture
c2003
779
Curl, James Stevens, 1937–
Georgian architecture in the British Isles, 1714-1830
2011
780
Agents of space
2016
781
The British slave trade
2007
782
The English prize
2012
783
Forgotten masters
2019
784
Pforzheimer, Carl Howard, 1879–1957
The Carl H. Pforzheimer library,
1940
785
Original eyes
c1991
786
Seidengewebe des 18. Jahrhunderts
2000
787
Fairman, Elisabeth R
Pleasures and pastimes
1990
788
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1996
789
The changing face of childhood
c2007
790
Hanson, Brian, 1953–
Architects and the "building world" from Chambers to Ruskin
2003
791
Display of art in the Roman palace, 1550-1750
[2014]
792
Visualizing slavery & British culture in the eighteenth century
2014
793
Bartolini, Lorenzo, 1777–1850
The Campbell sisters dancing a waltz
794
Gatrell, Vic, 1941–
The first bohemians
2013
795
Prospects of Empire
[2015]
796
Feather, John
The provincial book trade in eighteenth-century England
1985
797
Quintana, Ricardo
Swift
1955
798
Lovell, Margaretta M
Art in a season of revolution
2005
799
Stevens, Andrew, 1956–
Hogarth and the shows of London
c1996
800
Angerstein, R. R. (Reinhold Rücker)
R.R. Angerstein's illustrated travel diary, 1753-1755
2001
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