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Reference Library 23,288
Rare Books and Manuscripts 4,045
Prints and Drawings 108
Paintings and Sculpture 12

Creator

Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Victoria and Albert Museum 144
Unknown artist 120
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 82
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 69
Blake, William, 1757–1827 67
Ward, Lock & Co 64
Tate Gallery 63
Fine Art Society 53
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 51
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 47
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 46
National Trust (Great Britain) 41
Clark, Thomas A 39
Mee, Arthur, 1875–1943 38
National Gallery (Great Britain) 37
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 36
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts 31
Walker Art Gallery 31
Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd 29
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 29
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937 28
Hockney, David, born 1937 28
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 28
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 28
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 26
Constable, John, 1776–1837 26
Dilnot, John 26
Harris, John, 1931–2022 26

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 23,288
Accessible in the Study Room 4,153
Not on view 12

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 27,261
Free to Use 79

Image Available

unavailable 27,105
available 235

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 6

Classification

Books 24,485
Articles & Chapters 1,383
Periodicals 504
Prints 163
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 132
Music (printed) 128
Postcards 114
Archives & Manuscripts 93
Photographs 54
Maps & Atlas (printed) 47
Videos 47
Posters 26
Drawings & Watercolors 17
Computer Files 15
Visual Materials 14
Paintings 12
Dissertations & Theses 11
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 3
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

A New Family Herbal 1
History of More than 300 Animals 1
The History of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green 1
The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham 1

Period

20th century 27,340

19th century 355
21st century 173
18th century 101
17th century 28
16th century 14
15th century 7

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 20
laid paper 11
oil paint 11
painting (technique) 11
lithography 9
glass 8
woodcut (process) 7
gelatin silver process 6
graphite 6
halftone process 4
photomechanical processes: planographic 4
albumen process 3
black ink 3
etching (printing process) 3
Asian paper 2
brown ink 2
ink 2
photographic paper 2
photomechanical reproduction 2
watercolor 2
board 1
brown wash 1
canvas 1
chromolithography 1
color photography 1
drypoint 1
engraving (action) 1
gouache 1
graphite (mineral) 1
gray wash 1

Height [cm]

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Work Type

artists' book 481
exhibition catalog 471
ephemera 469
private press books (publishing) 314
wood engraving 292
photomechanical print 234
history 164
photograph 144
postcard 137
auction catalogue 116
sheet music 116
catalog 106
memorial card 97
chromolithograph 95
auction catalog 91
exhibition catalogue 86
accordion fold format (binding) 79
advertisement 72
periodical 71
poem 69
memorials (commemorative) 66
livres d'artiste 63
lithograph 57
poetry 57
engraving 54
photographic postcard 54
biographie 50
botanical illustration 47
map 47
gelatin silver print 46

Genre

genre subject 32
architectural subject 22
animal art 11
portrait 8
landscape 7
military art 3
sporting art 3
historical subject 2
botanical subject 1
cartographic material 1
cityscape 1
figure study 1

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 515
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 320
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 253
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 230
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Rare books -- Catalogs. 183
Great Britain. 164
Art, Victorian -- Catalogs. 150
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 140
Blake, William, 1757–1827. 139
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 138
Painting, Victorian -- Catalogs. 136
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 134
Auction catalogs. 129
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 125
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 121
Watercolor painting, Victorian -- Catalogs. 121
Drawing, Victorian -- Catalogs. 116
Furniture -- Catalogs. 116
Art, British -- Catalogs. 115
Watercolor painting -- Catalogs. 115
Fox hunting. 113
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 109
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. 108
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref) 108
Watercolor painting, British -- Catalogs. 106
Watercolor painting, English -- Exhibitions. 105
London (England) -- Description and travel. 102
Painting, English -- Exhibitions. 102

Subject Period

20th century 1,566
19th century 1,342
18th century 618
17th century 415
16th century 107
15th century 22
15th and 16th centuries 16
17th-18th centuries 16
11th century 7
12th century 5
14th century 4
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
21st century 2
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
10e siècle 1
13th century 1
16th-17th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1
19th centuries 1
29th century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
Antiquity and middle ages 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 4,007
England 3,194
London 725
London (England) 613
Scotland 371
United States 310
Ireland 228
Europe 204
France 158
Italy 130
Australia 115
Wales 115
India 109
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
England London 59
Germany 58
Edinburgh 56
New York (State) 43
Middle East 40
Devon (England) 39
Netherlands 37
Oxford 37
Cambridge 36
Thames River (England) 36
Glasgow 35
Oxford (England) 35
Guildford 34
New York 33
California 32
Cornwall (England : County) 32

Associated People

Blake, William, 1757–1827 296
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 251
Constable, John, 1776–1837 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 115
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 99
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 97
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 95
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 94
Morris, William, 1834–1896 84
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 77
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 76
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 63
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 59
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 53
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 52
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 52
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 51
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 50
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 45
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 44
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 43
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 38
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 37
Hockney, David, born 1937 35
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 35
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 33
Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825 33
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 33
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543 32
Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891–1959 30

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 17
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 1
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 1
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 41
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 25
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 19
22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
22960469820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 6
22711723710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 4
22960470130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 4
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 3
22652008990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22711731110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22711731170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22781079680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert. 2
22606018760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606039610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606091430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606096070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606107810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606110530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606125190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606224620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22606244240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22606514650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606582880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22606683430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott B. Wilcox, Yale PhD 1985 1
22606930130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972 1
22607144580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 26,006
German 284
French 283
Italian 88
Dutch 39
Spanish 32
Undetermined 31
Japanese 28
Russian 19
Welsh 17
Latin 15
Portuguese 7
Multiple languages 5
Polish 5
Swedish 5
Danish 4
Norwegian 3
Icelandic 2
Afrikaans 1
Efik 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) 1
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 1
Hebrew 1
Korean 1
Scottish Gaelic 1

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unknown artist

Landscape Sketch with Mountains

ca. 1920
unknown artist

Morecambe Sands

undated
unknown artist

Coast with Cliffs and Boats

early 19th century
unknown artist

White Poodle in a Punt

in or after 1984
unknown artist

King Charles Spaniel

in or after 1984
unknown artist

Ringwood, a Brocklesby Foxhound

in or after 1984
unknown artist

A Dog, 'Property of the Earl of Chatham'

in or after 1984
unknown artist

Portrait of a Spanish Dog belonging to Mr. Cosway, chasing a butterfly

in or after 1984
unknown artist

Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel

in or after 1984
unknown artist

Water Spaniel

in or after 1984
unknown artist

Fino, black-and-white Spitz

in or after 1984
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Grossmith & Son

Phul-nana perfume

[ca. 1926?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Underwood & Underwood

Sun Sculpture stereoscope

not before 1901
Accessible in the Study Room
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986

Henry Moore shelter-sketch-book

[1967]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)

[Label for Bacon Brothers "B.B." cigarettes (Turkish)]

[approximately 1910]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

Sailing boats & dhows

[1994]
Accessible in the Study Room
J.S. Fry & Sons

Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie

ca. 1909
Accessible in the Study Room
First lessons in plain sewing for home or school

[approximately 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

The Globe Inn

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Collection of nine printed specimens of silver foil stamped labels
Accessible in the Study Room
John Bartholomew and Son

Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London

[not before 1921]
Accessible in the Study Room
The Princes Restaurant, Piccadilly

[191-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Stay Put this Whitsun

between 1939 and 1945
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Special Excursions to Race Meetings: Westcliff-on-Sea Coach Services

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Go by the Regular Coach Services

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

To Ipswich, Lowestoft and Yarmouth

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Bedford to Yarmouth Clacton & Southend

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Express Coach Services

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Green Line Coach Routes

ca. 1950s
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Bedford-Yarmouth Bedford-Clacton

after 1929
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A Happy New Year to Our Gallant Soldiers

1914-1915
Accessible in the Study Room
Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes

[1935]
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, Nicholas

Four details from a suit of armour

[1979]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mintons Ltd

Minton English bone china

[between 1960 and 1980]
Accessible in the Study Room
Reliance Rubber Company

Plastic gold

1889-1939 [that is, 1939]
Accessible in the Study Room
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)

Antiquities of Ionia,

1769-1915
Accessible in the Study Room
Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]
Accessible in the Study Room
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

[1907]
Accessible in the Study Room
Zoological Society of London

A map of the Zoological Society Gardens in Regents Park commonly called... [Read more]

[approximately 1947]
Accessible in the Study Room
London Transport Executive

[Ticket for 1951 Festival of Britain special bus service]

[1951]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnington Hotel (London, England)

Luncheon

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Riley, Bridget, born 1931

Bridget Riley

[1965]
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Bucks of the First Head
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

[Set of three postcards made to accompany "Estate : a book of collected... [Read more]

1991
Accessible in the Study Room
In loving memory of Emily Clifford, dearly beloved wife of George Clifford

1905
Accessible in the Study Room
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]
Accessible in the Study Room
Reveley, Thomas, active 1904

£5 reward

approximately 1904
Accessible in the Study Room
[Postcard with birthday wishes]

[approximately 1910]
Accessible in the Study Room
Officer's photograph album of British military hospitals and camps

1917-1918

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