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Reference Library
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
9
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
8
Paulson, Ronald
6
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
5
Pointon, Marcia R
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Alexander, David (David S.)
4
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
4
Bindman, David, 1940–
4
Boydell, John, 1719–1804
4
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
4
Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
4
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
4
Storff, Paul Auguste de
4
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
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Craske, Matthew
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Engel, Laura
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Hallett, Mark, 1965–
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Books
1,301
Articles & Chapters
40
Archives & Manuscripts
33
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
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Computer Files
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Periodicals
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Videos
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
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female
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20th century
614
21st century
553
18th century
157
19th century
108
17th century
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16th century
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history
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engraving
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exhibition catalog
27
map
22
ink drawing
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wood engraving
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watercolor
20
aquatint
19
armorial bookplates (provenance)
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etching
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private press books (publishing)
14
biographie
13
biography
9
commonplace book
9
criticism, interpretation, etc
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poem
9
catalog
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graphite drawing
7
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7
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
43
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
38
Great Britain.
35
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
30
English poetry -- 18th century.
27
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.
19
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
18
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
18
England.
17
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
17
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
17
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Bibliography.
16
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
16
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
16
Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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England
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London (England)
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France
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Europe
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London
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Italy
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16
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10
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7
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7
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England London
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
23
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
19
Blake, William, 1757–1827
17
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
16
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
15
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
11
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
11
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
8
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
8
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
8
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
7
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
7
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
6
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
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
4
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Exhibition History
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
2
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
2
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
1
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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 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 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 Gloria Scheuer
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 Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Virgil R. & Mary L. Bierman.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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English
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French
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German
21
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Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
302
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
303
Leppert, Richard D
Music and image
1988
304
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
305
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
306
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
307
Essick, Robert N
William Blake's commercial book illustrations
1991
308
Walker, R. J. B. (Richard John Boileau), 1916–
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century miniatures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen
c1991
309
Willis, Sam
Fighting at sea in the eighteenth century
2008
310
Greene, Susan W., 1942–
Wearable prints, 1760-1860
[2014]
311
Caravaggio to Canaletto
[2013]
312
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
313
Eighteenth century English books
1976
314
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
315
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
316
The history of the book in the West
2010
317
Jefcoate, Graham
Deutsche Drucker und Buchhändler in London, 1680-1811
[2015]
318
Bloom, Harold
The visionary company
1961
319
Eglin, John, 1962–
Venice transfigured
2001
320
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
321
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
322
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
323
Enlightenment
c2003
324
Downes, Kerry
St George's, Bloomsbury
2008
325
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
326
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
327
1776
2019
328
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
329
Britiske mestere 1730-1850
[1949]
330
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
331
"My highest pleasures"
2007
332
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
333
Pointon, Marcia R
Scandalous jewellery at the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte
2009
334
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
335
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
336
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891–1974
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740
1959
337
Bermingham, Ann
The ideology of landscape
c1982
338
Maps and prints
c1984
339
Gilman, Ernest B., 1946–
The curious perspective
1978
340
Fussell, Paul, 1924–2012
The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism;
1965
341
Regency costume
[1978?]
342
Isaac, Peter C. G
Checklist of books & periodicals printed by William Bulmer
1961
343
Table settings
c2010
344
Sharp, Rosalie
China to light up a house
[2015-2016]
345
Taylor, Clare, 1962–
The design, production and reception of eighteenth-century wallpaper in Britain
2018
346
Dare to know
2022
347
A treasure house in Farmington
1999
348
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse,
1926
349
Smith, Greg
The emergence of the professional watercolourist
c2002
350
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
351
Braham, Helen
A century of silver
2003
352
Brown, Iain Gordon
Poet & painter
c1984
353
Pool, J. Lawrence (James Lawrence), 1906–
Fighting ships of the Revolution on Long Island Sound, 1775-1783
c1990
354
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
'Candidates for fame'
c2005
355
Craske, Matthew
The London trade in monumental sculpture and the development of the imagery of the family in funerary monuments of the period 1720-1760
1992
356
Miller, Amy
Dressed to kill
2007
357
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd
2007
358
Hollweg, Pia
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien
c2008
359
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti
c2008
360
Morris, Edward
The Liverpool Academy and other exhibitions of contemporary art in Liverpool 1774-1867
c1998
361
Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)
Queer gardens
362
Leach, Stephen D.
The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett
2023
363
Jourdain, Margaret
Some eighteenth-century picture frames
364
Studies in eighteenth-century culture
1971-
365
Barker-Benfield, G. J
The culture of sensibility
1992
366
Ogg, David, 1887–1965
England in the reigns of James II and William III
1969
367
Bickerton, L. M
Eighteenth century English drinking glasses
2000, c1971
368
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
The commerce of cartography
2005
369
Buckridge, Steeve O
The language of dress
2004
370
Martin, Simon
Poets in the landscape
c2007
371
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
372
Peltz, Lucy
Facing the text
[2017]
373
Taylor, David Francis
The politics of parody
[2018]
374
Peterson, Richard S., 1938–
Laurel crown and ape's tail
375
Eisler, William Lawrence, 1948–
The construction of the image of Martin Folkes, 1690-1754
376
Purefoy, Henry, 1697–1762
Purefoy letters
1931
377
London Museum
Men's costume, 1750-1800
1973
378
Blake, Nicholas
The illustrated companion to Nelson's navy
2000
379
Gilman, Todd
The theatre career of Thomas Arne
c2013
380
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
Reynolds
[2014]
381
Moore, Robert Etheridge, 1919–1992
Hogarth's literary relationships
1948
382
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1994
383
Beasley, Jerry C
A check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749
[1972]
384
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
A preface to eighteenth century poetry
1948
385
Olson, Roberta J. M
Fire in the sky
1998
386
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
2008
387
The restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906
2017
388
British Museum
Light, time, legacy
[2015]
389
Fothergill, Brian
The Strawberry Hill set
1983
390
Marr, George Simpson
The periodical essayist of the eighteenth century,
[1923]
391
Malcolmson, Robert W
Popular recreations in English society, 1700-1850
1973
392
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660,
1945
393
Realism through informality
[1983]
394
Alexander, David (David S.)
Painters and engraving
1980
395
Plumb, J. H. (John Harold), 1911–2001
Georgian delights
1980
396
Longaker, John Mark, 1900–
English biography in the eighteenth century
1931
397
Herdt, Anne de
Silhouettes et découpures genevoises des 18e et 19e siècles
1985
398
Byrd, Max
London transformed
1978
399
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
400
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
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