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Reference Library 4,863
Rare Books and Manuscripts 45

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Christie, Manson & Woods 27
Arts Council of Great Britain 22
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 22
Sotheby's (Firm) 18
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) 17
Victoria and Albert Museum 14
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 13
Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892 12
National Trust (Great Britain) 10
Graves, Algernon 9
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 9
Strong, Roy C 9
Cannon-Brookes, P 8
Girouard, Mark, 1931– 8
Harris, John, 1931–2022 8
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 8
Colvin, Howard Montagu 7
Cork, Richard 7
Lister, Raymond 7
Richard Green (Gallery : London, England) 7
Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham, 1905– 7
Wood, Christopher, 1941–2009 7
British Council 6
Christie's South Kensington, Ltd 6
Fine Art Society 6
Gaunt, William, 1900–1980 6
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 6
Robinson, John Martin 6
Ayres, James 5
British Library 5

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Accessible in the Reference Library 4,863
Accessible in the Study Room 45

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 4,863

Image Available

unavailable 4,863

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 6

Classification

Books 4,532
Articles & Chapters 142
Periodicals 141
Videos 31
Maps & Atlas (printed) 6
Dissertations & Theses 4
Computer Files 2
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 2
Music (printed) 1
Photographs 1

Collective Title

Period

20th century 2,867
21st century 1,826
19th century 197
18th century 10
17th century 2

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

history 252
exhibition catalog 135
biographie 65
catalog 48
biography 41
criticism, interpretation, etc 34
auction catalog 29
pictorial work 24
exhibition catalogue 20
periodical 13
illustrated work 12
art 7
bibliographie 7
portrait 7
source 6
directorie 5
map 5
personal correspondence 5
annotations (provenance) 4
armorial bookplates (provenance) 4
auction catalogue 4
bibliography 4
diarie 4
genealogy 4
interview 4
anecdote 3
aufsatzsammlung 3
booksellers' labels (provenance) 3
dust jacket 3
guidebook 3

Genre

Subject Terms

Great Britain. 518
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 139
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 132
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. 112
Art, British -- Catalogs. 111
Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography. 93
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 91
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 83
Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography. 83
Painting, Victorian -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 82
Art, British. 79
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain. 62
Painting, British. 57
Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain. 57
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. 56
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 46
Great Britain -- Biography -- Portraits. 44
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 44
Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. 42
Auction catalogs. 40
Architecture -- Great Britain. 39
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. 39
Nobility -- Great Britain. 39
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain. 39
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 38
Artists -- Great Britain. 37
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 37
Great Britain -- Biography. 36
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain. 35
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 35

Subject Period

20th century 785
19th century 728
18th century 386
17th century 200
21st century 70
16th century 56
15th century 15
11th century 6
14th century 3
17th-18th centuries 3
12th century 2
13th century 1
15th and 16th centuries 1
17th-18th century 1
20th centuy 1
Geschichte 1
Great Britain 1
To 449 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 4,863

England 68
Ireland 23
London (England) 19
Scotland 15
Groebritannien 14
United States 14
England London 12
Europe 11
France 11
Wales 6
Italy 4
France Great Britain 3
France Paris 3
Great Britain France 3
Great Britain Italy 3
Italy Great Britain 3
London 3
Bath (England) 2
Denmark 2
England Leeds 2
Europe Great Britain 2
Grande-Bretagne 2
Great Britain America 2
Great Britain Europe 2
Great Britain Foreign countries 2
Gro€britannien 2
Mexico 2
Middle East 2
Northamptonshire (England) 2

Associated People

Morris, William, 1834–1896 26
Blake, William, 1757–1827 23
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 23
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 21
Windsor, House of 17
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 16
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792 14
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603 14
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 14
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 14
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491–1547 11
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 11
Stuart, House of 11
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820 10
Constable, John, 1776–1837 9
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 9
Bell, Vanessa, 1879–1961 8
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815–1879 8
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896 8
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 8
Tudor, House of 8
Adam, James, 1732–1794 7
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 7
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 7
Carrington, Dora de Houghton, 1893–1932 7
Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903–1975 7
John, Augustus, 1878–1961 7
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 7
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805 7
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 7

Exhibition History

Credit Line

22606582880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22617838750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22631765680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara and Max Wilk, Yale BA 1941 1
22653784930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22667650850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22672647830008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22674477060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22674477070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22681603200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss 1
22681603220008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss 1
22706775400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22706775410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22722767380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22728855490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22736296530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22744250910008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22744250930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22755077640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross 1
22757372370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22757472090008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22757472100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22762413270008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds 1
22775157770008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22781049660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22797645190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22797645200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22804626890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22836773810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22836773830008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22845113380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 4,863

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Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891

Good Queen Anne

1886
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Ashton, John, 1834–1911

Social life in the reign of Queen Anne

1882
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Dictionary of national biography

1903
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Blake, Quentin, Sir, born 1932

New drawings and prints

2012
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Anecdotes of William Hogarth,

[1970?]
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Fairfax-Lucy, Alice, 1908–

Charlecote and the Lucys

1990
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National Trust (Great Britain)

Properties of the National Trust, 1969

1969
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Lane, Margaret, 1907–1994

The tale of Beatrix Potter

1968
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National Trust (Great Britain)

Treasures from the National Trust

2007
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International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition (13th : 1980 : London)

Catalogue of exhibitions of British coloured books, 1738-1898

1980
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Parker, John, 1923–

Books to build an empire

1960 [c1961]
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Grant, Maurice Harold, b. 1872

A dictionary of British etchers

1952
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Life between islands

2021
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Wilson, David M. (David Mackenzie), 1931–

The forgotten collector

c1984
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Lahikainen, Amanda

Money and materiality in the golden age of graphic satire

[2022]
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Britain through the looking glass

1977
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Arts Council of Great Britain

Information bulletin

-1981
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Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

A general catalogue of books

1880
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Hart, Imogen

Arts and crafts objects

2010
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Guichard, Kenneth M

British etchers, 1850-1940

1981
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Lemmen, Hans van

Coade stone

2006
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Morley, John, 1933–

Death, heaven and the Victorians

1971
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Ashton, John, 1834–1911

Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign,

1903
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Bremner, G. A., 1974–

Building Greater Britain

2022
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Robert Nicholson Publications

Nicholson's guides to the waterways

1974-[1979?]
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Bizup, Joseph, 1966–

Manufacturing culture

2003
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Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of, 1930–

Photographs by Snowdon

c2000
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Sinclair, William Macdonald, 1850–1917

The chapels royal,

1912
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De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972

Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum

1953
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Harris, Eileen

The genius of Robert Adam

c2001
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Upcott, William, 1779–1845

A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English... [Read more]

1978
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Piper, John, 1903–1992

British romantic artists

1946
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Posh

2003
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Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832

Charles Dashwood diaries and commissions relating to Xalapa and... [Read more]
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Whitworth Art Gallery

'Upon a painted ocean'

[1982]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Julie Cope's grand tour

[2017]
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Crouch, David

The birth of nobility

2005
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Frater, Nikki

Rex Whistler

2024
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Bramwell, Valerie

All in the bones

2008
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

The Age of Charles II

[1960]
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Riley, Bridget, born 1931

The eye's mind

c1999
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Broglio, Ron, 1966–

Beasts of burden

2017
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Droth, Martina

The cult of the statuette in late victorian Britain

©2000
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Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839

The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing

1874
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Lister, Raymond

The British miniature

1951
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Abbot Hall Art Gallery

4 exhibitions to celebrate the opening of Abbot Hall Art Gallery

[1962]
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25 years : modern & contemporary British art

[2021]
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Graham, Rigby, 1931–

Romantic book illustration in England, 1943-55

c1965
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Karl Baedeker (Firm)

Great Britain

1901
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Ballads and broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800

c2010

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