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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Creator
Christie & Manson
126
Christie, James, 1773–1831
117
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
95
Christie, Manson & Woods
77
Britton, John, 1771–1857
52
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
48
Phillips, H., -1840
41
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
30
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
28
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
27
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
24
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
23
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
23
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
22
Morris, William, 1834–1896
22
Burnet, John, 1784–1868
21
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
21
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
21
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
20
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
20
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10,628
Available
416
New Additions
2023-2024
88
Classification
Books
8,875
Archives & Manuscripts
505
Prints
452
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
385
Maps & Atlas (printed)
173
Drawings & Watercolors
112
Music (printed)
112
Periodicals
87
Photographs
75
Visual Materials
44
Articles & Chapters
41
Postcards
6
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
5
Videos
4
Paintings
1
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unknown
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Period
19th century
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20th century
115
18th century
90
17th century
19
16th century
13
15th century
8
21st century
3
Materials & Techniques
wove paper
16
ceramic (material)
11
daguerreotype (process)
9
molding (forming)
9
albumen process
4
ink
4
silk (textile)
4
watercolor (paint)
4
engraving (action)
3
graphite (color)
3
lithography
3
weaving
3
graphite
2
graphite (mineral)
2
ivory (material)
2
sterling silver
2
transfer printing
2
wove paper.
2
albumen process.
1
carving (processes)
1
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Work Type
wood engraving
1,402
lithograph
1,151
aquatint
883
engraving
728
auction catalog
630
ephemera
582
chromolithograph
556
etching
302
chromoxylograph
220
recreation
218
armorial bookplates (provenance)
200
watercolor
191
steel engraving
188
drawing book
182
advertisement
178
photograph
176
ink drawing
175
memorial card
168
map
166
botanical illustration
165
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Subject Terms
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
562
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
558
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
484
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
408
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
363
London Institution -- Ownership.
234
Painting, British -- Catalogs.
234
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph.
229
Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
186
Grief.
172
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
168
Drawing -- Technique.
165
Middle Hill Press -- Publisher.
160
Satire, English.
159
Drawing books -- Specimens.
155
Decorative arts -- Catalogs.
131
Voyages and travels.
128
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
120
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
109
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
108
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Subject Period
19th century
1,281
18th century
92
20th century
75
17th century
18
16th century
17
15th century
9
11th century
2
12th century
2
15th and 16th centuries
2
Alfred, 871-899
2
Silurian
2
To 500
2
13th century
1
18h century
1
19h century
1
6th century
1
Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
1
To 332 B. C
1
To 332 B.C
1
[18--]
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
2,385
England
1,185
London
743
London (England)
292
France
181
Edinburgh (Scotland)
166
Italy
125
Scotland
116
United States
107
India
95
Edinburgh
93
Europe
82
Wales
76
Switzerland
62
Ireland
57
Oxford (England)
57
Egypt
54
Paris (France)
52
Germany
49
Brighton (England)
48
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Associated People
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
58
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
48
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
30
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852
29
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
27
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
26
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
22
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
22
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
21
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
19
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
19
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
18
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830
18
Britton, John, 1771–1857
17
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792,
17
Raphael, 1483–1520
16
Jesus Christ
15
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830
13
Silenus (Mythological character)
13
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910
12
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Exhibition History
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
107
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
70
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
54
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
14
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
13
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
10
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
10
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
10
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
10
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)
9
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
5
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
4
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
4
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
4
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
4
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014)
3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
3
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15-August 10, 2014)
2
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
2
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
152
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson
99
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
93
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
92
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
72
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
51
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
27
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
26
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judy Sirota Rosenthal and Philip B. Rosenthal, Yale BA 1967, MA 1970, PhD 1974
19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
18
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elizabeth and Horace Tower in memory of Cynthia Gay Wright
13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931
12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
11
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Language
English
10,356
French
275
German
94
Latin
37
Italian
28
No linguistic content
19
Undetermined
13
Spanish
12
Swedish
9
Dutch
8
Russian
5
Efik
3
Multiple languages
3
Scots
3
Danish
2
English, Middle (1100-1500)
2
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
1
Hebrew
1
Japanese
1
Norwegian
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Russell, John, -1494
Propositio Johannis Russell
1909
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
The metamorphoses of Ovid
1968
3
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Vocabulary in French and English
1964
4
De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484
1922
5
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
The boke of Saint Albans,
1881
6
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans
1975
7
Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Der Fasciculus medicinae des Johannes de Ketham, Alemannus
1923
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Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur
1934
9
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519
Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 =
1903
10
The first map of Australia
[1856]
11
Wyngaerde, Anton van den, d. 1571
Van den Wyngaerde's View of London (circa 1550)
1881-1882
12
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia
MCMXXIX [1929]
13
Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
A short treatise of hunting
1897
14
G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668
Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners
1821
15
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany
1932
16
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
A compendium of the East
1937
17
The fables of Aesop
MCMXXVI [1926]
18
Carr family
Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material,
1699-1981
19
The genealogy of the lairds of Ednem and Duntreth , from the year 1063 to the year 1699
MDCCCXXXIV [1834]
20
Album of printed items documenting English lotteries, 1569-1826
circa 1700-1900
21
Collection of engraved portraits
22
Album of English bookplates
approximately 1700-1950?
23
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Theodore & Honoria
1985
24
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens,
1708-1875,
25
[Collection of 36 vocal and piano scores]
[1716-1820]
26
Order of the Bath
Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath
1725, reprinted 1812
27
Le Gallois, Pierre, fl. 1680
A critical and historical account of all the celebrated libraries in foreign countries,
1826
28
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
A general system of horsemanship
1970
29
Society of Antiquaries of London
Vetusta Monumenta
n.d.]
30
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Joshua Reynolds archive,
1749-1816
31
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
James Bruce archive,
ca. 1750-ca.1850
32
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Lucina sine concubitu
MCMXXX [1930]
33
[Advertisements of publishers of architectural books]
[ca. 1750]-1841
34
The Critical review, or, Annals of literature
1756-1817
35
The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politicks, and literature for the year ..
[1762?]-1838
36
Taylor, Henry, 1825–1888
Collection of designs for Worcester porcelain,
ca. 1770-ca. 1880
37
Bainbridge family
Bainbridge deer park management archive,
1760-1821
38
Ashmolean Museum
Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii à Wood
1824
39
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
The antiquities of Athens
MDCCLXII-MDCCXXX [1762-1830]
40
[Composite atlas of Caribbean charts]
1763-1808
41
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
42
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence,
1767-1917
43
Notebook of paint recipes
1767-1840
44
Surveyors' account book, Parish of Healaugh
1768-1837
45
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Antiquities of Ionia,
1769-1915
46
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts
47
St. Leger, Anthony, 1731–1786
Anthony St. Leger account book
1772-1835 (bulk 1772)
48
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Human passions delineated in above 120 figures
[1858]
49
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729–1824
The Atlantic Neptune
[1774-1800?]
50
Rushout, Anne, approximately 1768–1849
Anne Rushout commonplace book
circa 1776-circa 1832
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