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Reference Library 35,119
Rare Books and Manuscripts 14,716

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Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 158
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Victoria and Albert Museum 145
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 138
Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
John Murray (Firm) 103
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 81
Blake, William, 1757–1827 78
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 66
Ward, Lock & Co 63
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 61
Britton, John, 1771–1857 57
Fine Art Society 52
Arts Council of Great Britain 51
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 50
Tate Gallery 50
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 47
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 46
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 45
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 43
Hockney, David, born 1937 43
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dilnot, John 41
National Trust (Great Britain) 41

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Accessible in the Reference Library 35,119
Accessible in the Study Room 14,716

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 49,003
Free to Use 672

Image Available

unavailable 48,853
available 822

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 185

Classification

Books 49,675

Collective Title

Period

20th century 23,532
21st century 13,555
19th century 10,417
18th century 2,005
17th century 249
16th century 52
15th century 37

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

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Work Type

wood engraving 1,731
exhibition catalog 1,223
auction catalog 1,081
aquatint 999
lithograph 932
engraving 905
artists' book 750
history 597
chromolithograph 459
ephemera 436
etching 415
catalog 407
armorial bookplates (provenance) 323
private press books (publishing) 314
drawing book 273
chromoxylograph 233
accordion fold format (binding) 220
photomechanical print 211
advertisement 189
criticism, interpretation, etc 185
steel engraving 178
exhibition catalogue 174
prospectuse 164
auction catalogue 156
publishers' advertisement 154
biographie 153
woodcut 152
publisher's advertisement 143
soft-ground etching 139
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 130

Genre

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,038
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 854
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 737
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 686
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 683
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 665
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 599
Rare books -- Catalogs. 585
Great Britain. 556
Art, British -- Catalogs. 489
Furniture -- Catalogs. 420
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 378
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 353
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Auction catalogs. 343
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 320
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 274
Drawing -- Technique. 260
England. 249
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 247
Art -- Catalogs. 240
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 240
Silver -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 217
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 213
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 207
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 207
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 202

Subject Period

20th century 3,261
19th century 3,255
18th century 1,267
17th century 596
21st century 308
16th century 238
15th century 47
17th-18th centuries 18
11th century 14
15th and 16th centuries 13
12th century 6
14th century 6
Geschichte 4
Alfred, 871-899 3
13th century 2
58 B.C.-511 A.D 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
To 400 2
To 500 2
10e siècle 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18h century 1
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1
19h century 1
19th Century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 7,617
England 5,534
London 1,787
London (England) 955
Scotland 605
United States 528
Ireland 422
Europe 406
India 301
Italy 281
France 249
Wales 228
Australia 224
Edinburgh (Scotland) 190
Edinburgh 171
England London 133
Oxford (England) 111
Middle East 109
Canada 97
Egypt 78
Oxford 78
Bath (England) 76
Dublin 76
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
New York (State) 75
Lake District (England) 72
Kent (England) 71
China 70
Devon (England) 70
Germany 70

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 358
Blake, William, 1757–1827 325
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 166
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 161
Constable, John, 1776–1837 154
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 138
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 123
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 122
Morris, William, 1834–1896 118
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 114
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 109
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 109
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 93
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 92
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 80
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 75
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 72
Hockney, David, born 1937 69
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 66
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 64
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 64
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 63
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 60
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 57
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 53
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 53
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 50
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 49
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 125
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 80
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 60
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 52
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 27
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 27
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 22
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 20
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 15
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 15
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 13
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 13
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 6
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 6
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 5
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 4
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 4
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 4
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 3
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 3
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 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
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus: Relics of Old London (Yale Center for British Art, May 11, 2016-August 14, 2016) 1
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 1
English Prize: The Capture of the “Westmorland,” an Episode of the Grand Tour (Yale Center for British Art, October 4, 2012-January 13, 2013) 1

Credit Line

22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 5
22809639860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22781117950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22826544530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22651990110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22653444540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22738147590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 3
22809675040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22826534440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 3
22895863350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22960435500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3

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Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition... [Read more]

[1802]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1853
Accessible in the Study Room
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Hogarth moralized

1831
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
Webb, W., active 1813

Three advertisements for American Fluid leather treatment, manufactured by W.... [Read more]

not before 1813
Accessible in the Study Room
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)

The Regency. Ramsgate

1953
Accessible in the Study Room
South Bank Centre

Summer of smiles

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Prosser, George Frederick

Select illustrations of Hampshire

1833
Accessible in the Study Room
Grüner, Ludwig, 1801–1882

Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches and palaces in Italy

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Nightingall, Miles

A catalogue of the genuine collection of pictures, of Mrs. Gamberini, widow of... [Read more]

[1775]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874

The Alhambra court in the Crystal Palace

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Malton, James, 1761–1803

The young painter's maulstick

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Dean's new magic picture book

[between 1857 and 1865]
Accessible in the Study Room
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Behar amateur lithographic scrap book

[1828?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu

1939
Accessible in the Study Room
Kennion, E

An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and... [Read more]

1844
Accessible in the Study Room
Freemasons. Chilterns Lodge, No. 4634 (Buckinghamshire, England)

Ladies' Festival : Wednesday, 6th November, 1929 : Wharncliffe Rooms,... [Read more]

1929
Accessible in the Study Room
Luard, John, 1790–1875

Views in India, Saint Helena,

[1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gentleman's monthly magazine of fashion and costumes de Paris

1853-1858
Accessible in the Study Room
Gooch, Thomas, 1750–1802

The life and death of a race-horse

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Douglas, Helen, 1952–

Leda and the swan

[2011]
Accessible in the Study Room
Seller, John, active 1658–1698

A new system of geography

[1685]
Accessible in the Study Room
The New album of Waverly views

[approximately 1850]
Accessible in the Study Room
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Ingpen, Abel, -1854

Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign... [Read more]

1839
Accessible in the Study Room
Switzerland in miniature

1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

[1907]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837

A new description of Blenheim

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840

Modern London

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy

[ca. 1801]
Accessible in the Study Room
Tomlinson, Kellom

The art of dancing explained by reading and figures

MDCCXXXV [1735]
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840

Oriental scenery

1812-1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Taylor, John, 1808–1887

Letters on India

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Eben, Frederic, Baron

The Swedish army

[1808]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

Cygnea cantio

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
Fittler, James, 1758–1835

Scotia depicta, or, the antiquities, castles, public buildings, noblemen... [Read more]

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
The compleat drawing-master;

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779

Buck's antiquities; or venerable remains of above four hundred castles, monasteries,... [Read more]

1774
Accessible in the Study Room
Hull General Cemetery (Kingston upon Hull, England)

[Advertisement for Hull General Cemetery, Spring Bank, citing charges,... [Read more]

[approximately 1880]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887

London labour and the London poor

1861-1862
Accessible in the Study Room
A gentleman's park dissected

18--]
Accessible in the Study Room
Temple, R. (Richard), active 1809–1811

Sixteen views of places in the Persian Gulph taken in the years 1809-10

1813
Accessible in the Study Room
A correct plan and elevation of the famous French raft

Feby. 1st 1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Corporal Violette!!

[1815?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Hodges, William, 1744–1797

Choix de vues de l'Inde

[1788]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, William, -1757

The gentlemen's or builder's companion

1736]
Accessible in the Study Room
Andrews, James, 1806–1876

Floral tableaux

MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Accessible in the Study Room
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861

Description of a view of Macao in China

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Gartside, Mary

An essay on a new theory of colours,

1808

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