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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pointon, Marcia R
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Alexander, David (David S.)
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
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Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
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Craske, Matthew
3
Engel, Laura
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Hallett, Mark, 1965–
3
Hauptman, William, born 1945
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Langford, Paul
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Leppert, Richard D
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Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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Mowl, Tim
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20th century
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19th century
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18th century
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history
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exhibition catalog
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biographie
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
23
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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England.
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English wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Div copy 1 Richard DeLong Hymnal Collection;
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Croome Park.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellie Hughes.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Aptekar Reeve.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.
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Thacker, Christopher
Building towers, forming gardens
2002
2
Coaching days of England
1966
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802
2002
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough
1962
5
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
6
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress
[1995?]
7
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
8
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Alexander Pope
1985
9
Colley, Linda
Britons
1992
10
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
The roots of romanticism
1999
11
Hughes, Eleanor
Brave tars and glorious commanders
2016
12
Filtenborg, Troels, 1951–
Between formula and freestyle
2014
13
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
14
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
15
Leppert, Richard D
Music and image
1988
16
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
17
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
18
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
19
Essick, Robert N
William Blake's commercial book illustrations
1991
20
Walker, R. J. B. (Richard John Boileau), 1916–
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century miniatures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen
c1991
21
Willis, Sam
Fighting at sea in the eighteenth century
2008
22
Greene, Susan W., 1942–
Wearable prints, 1760-1860
[2014]
23
Caravaggio to Canaletto
[2013]
24
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
25
Eighteenth century English books
1976
26
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
27
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
28
The history of the book in the West
2010
29
Jefcoate, Graham
Deutsche Drucker und Buchhändler in London, 1680-1811
[2015]
30
Bloom, Harold
The visionary company
1961
31
Eglin, John, 1962–
Venice transfigured
2001
32
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
33
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
34
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
35
Enlightenment
c2003
36
Downes, Kerry
St George's, Bloomsbury
2008
37
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
38
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
39
1776
2019
40
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
41
Britiske mestere 1730-1850
[1949]
42
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
43
"My highest pleasures"
2007
44
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
45
Pointon, Marcia R
Scandalous jewellery at the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte
2009
46
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
47
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
48
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891–1974
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740
1959
49
Bermingham, Ann
The ideology of landscape
c1982
50
Maps and prints
c1984
51
Gilman, Ernest B., 1946–
The curious perspective
1978
52
Fussell, Paul, 1924–2012
The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism;
1965
53
Regency costume
[1978?]
54
Isaac, Peter C. G
Checklist of books & periodicals printed by William Bulmer
1961
55
Table settings
c2010
56
Sharp, Rosalie
China to light up a house
[2015-2016]
57
Taylor, Clare, 1962–
The design, production and reception of eighteenth-century wallpaper in Britain
2018
58
Dare to know
2022
59
A treasure house in Farmington
1999
60
The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse,
1926
61
Smith, Greg
The emergence of the professional watercolourist
c2002
62
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
63
Braham, Helen
A century of silver
2003
64
Brown, Iain Gordon
Poet & painter
c1984
65
Pool, J. Lawrence (James Lawrence), 1906–
Fighting ships of the Revolution on Long Island Sound, 1775-1783
c1990
66
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
'Candidates for fame'
c2005
67
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
68
Miller, Amy
Dressed to kill
2007
69
Watercolours and drawings : Lowell Libson Ltd
2007
70
Hollweg, Pia
Anton Raphael Mengs' Wirken in Spanien
c2008
71
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti
c2008
72
Morris, Edward
The Liverpool Academy and other exhibitions of contemporary art in Liverpool 1774-1867
c1998
73
Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)
Queer gardens
74
Leach, Stephen D.
The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett
2023
75
Jourdain, Margaret
Some eighteenth-century picture frames
76
Studies in eighteenth-century culture
1971-
77
Barker-Benfield, G. J
The culture of sensibility
1992
78
Ogg, David, 1887–1965
England in the reigns of James II and William III
1969
79
Bickerton, L. M
Eighteenth century English drinking glasses
2000, c1971
80
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
The commerce of cartography
2005
81
Buckridge, Steeve O
The language of dress
2004
82
Martin, Simon
Poets in the landscape
c2007
83
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
84
Peltz, Lucy
Facing the text
[2017]
85
Taylor, David Francis
The politics of parody
[2018]
86
Peterson, Richard S., 1938–
Laurel crown and ape's tail
87
Eisler, William Lawrence, 1948–
The construction of the image of Martin Folkes, 1690-1754
88
Purefoy, Henry, 1697–1762
Purefoy letters
1931
89
London Museum
Men's costume, 1750-1800
1973
90
Blake, Nicholas
The illustrated companion to Nelson's navy
2000
91
Gilman, Todd
The theatre career of Thomas Arne
c2013
92
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
Reynolds
[2014]
93
Moore, Robert Etheridge, 1919–1992
Hogarth's literary relationships
1948
94
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours
1994
95
Beasley, Jerry C
A check list of prose fiction published in England, 1740-1749
[1972]
96
Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900–
A preface to eighteenth century poetry
1948
97
Olson, Roberta J. M
Fire in the sky
1998
98
A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775
2008
99
The restoration of Blythburgh Church, 1881-1906
2017
100
British Museum
Light, time, legacy
[2015]
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