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Reference Library 36,695
Rare Books and Manuscripts 17,085

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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) 82
Blake, William, 1757–1827 81
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 74
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 70
Ward, Lock & Co 63
Britton, John, 1771–1857 57
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 55
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 55
Fine Art Society 53
Arts Council of Great Britain 52
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 52
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Tate Gallery 51
Hockney, David, born 1937 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 47
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 46
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 43
National Trust (Great Britain) 42
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dilnot, John 41

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Accessible in the Reference Library 36,695
Accessible in the Study Room 17,085

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 52,864
Free to Use 754

Image Available

unavailable 52,712
available 906

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 205

Classification

Books 53,618

Collective Title

Period

20th century 24,634
21st century 14,021
19th century 10,993
18th century 2,336
17th century 400
15th century 309
16th century 159
13th century 1
14th century 1

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,784
exhibition catalog 1,278
auction catalog 1,104
engraving 1,072
aquatint 1,038
lithograph 1,013
artists' book 762
history 605
chromolithograph 482
etching 464
ephemera 441
woodcut 422
catalog 413
armorial bookplates (provenance) 363
private press books (publishing) 315
drawing book 277
incunabula 260
fragments (object portions) 247
chromoxylograph 236
accordion fold format (binding) 232
photomechanical print 217
advertisement 193
criticism, interpretation, etc 188
steel engraving 181
exhibition catalogue 176
prospectuse 175
auction catalogue 159
biographie 158
publishers' advertisement 155
map 150

Genre

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,076
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 858
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 747
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 702
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 684
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 666
Rare books -- Catalogs. 653
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 604
Great Britain. 558
Art, British -- Catalogs. 490
Furniture -- Catalogs. 437
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 380
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 354
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Auction catalogs. 343
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 320
Incunabula in Yale Library. 298
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 283
Drawing -- Technique. 267
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 263
England. 253
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. 248
Art -- Catalogs. 241
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 241
Silver -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 221
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 218
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 217

Subject Period

19th century 3,378
20th century 3,329
18th century 1,331
17th century 656
21st century 320
16th century 262
15th century 58
17th-18th centuries 22
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 15
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 4
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
19th-20th centuries 2
58 B.C.-511 A.D 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2
10e siècle 1
16th-18th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 7,760
England 5,638
London 1,796
London (England) 970
Scotland 620
United States 549
Europe 446
Ireland 426
France 393
Italy 335
India 310
Wales 235
Australia 229
Edinburgh (Scotland) 192
Edinburgh 172
England London 134
Germany 119
Middle East 119
Oxford (England) 117
Canada 101
Egypt 82
Oxford 79
Spain 78
Bath (England) 77
Netherlands 77
Dublin 76
New York (State) 76
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Switzerland 75
China 74

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 406
Blake, William, 1757–1827 336
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 173
Constable, John, 1776–1837 168
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 167
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 156
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 127
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 126
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 124
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 123
Morris, William, 1834–1896 120
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 112
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 109
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 107
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 81
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 75
Hockney, David, born 1937 74
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 73
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 67
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 67
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 65
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 64
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 63
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 59
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 57
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 55
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 54
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 54
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 52
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 50

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 135
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 92
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 61
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 52
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 39
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 30
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) 21
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 18
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 18
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 14
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 13
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 8
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 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
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 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
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 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
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
22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 8
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
22709621880008651|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
22709613400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711768080008651|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
22651992110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3

Language

English 49,675
French 833
German 578
Latin 328
Italian 253
Dutch 78
Spanish 70
Japanese 43
Undetermined 43
Russian 26
Multiple languages 19
Welsh 19
Portuguese 13
Swedish 13
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 9
Polish 8
Chinese 7
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 7
English, Middle (1100-1500) 6
Hebrew 6
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 5
Danish 4
Low German 4
Estonian 3
Norwegian 3
Scots 3
Dakota 2
Hungarian 2
Icelandic 2
Romance (Other) 2

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Accessible in the Study Room
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
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Views in Rome and its environs

1841
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
Taylor, John, 1808–1887

Letters on India

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814

The high mettled racer

MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Accessible in the Study Room
Eben, Frederic, Baron

The Swedish army

[1808]
Accessible in the Study Room
John Sanderson & Co

Splendid show of spring fashions

[1890?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

Cygnea cantio

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)

The Regency. Ramsgate

1953
Accessible in the Study Room
The compleat drawing-master;

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Heine, Wilhelm, 1827–1885

Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition

1856
Accessible in the Study Room
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House

[1846?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828

A series of subjects from the works of the late R. P. Bonington

1829
Accessible in the Study Room
Bodington, John, -1727

Reward notice for recovery of a silver quart tankard

1727
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Bath Hotel (Bournemouth, England)

[Lunch and dinner menu for the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, August... [Read more]

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
A gentleman's park dissected

18--]
Accessible in the Study Room
Taylor Institution. Library

The Taylor Building and the University Galleries

June 19th, 1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Sherwill, Walter Stanhope

Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese... [Read more]

1851
Accessible in the Study Room
Parry, William, fl. 1825

The last days of Lord Byron

MDCCCXXV [1825]
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840

Modern London

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899

Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book

[1870?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832

The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
James, H. G. (Henry Gould), -1842

This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings... [Read more]

[1821]
Accessible in the Study Room
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet, both hunting-horses and running horses

1599
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]

[approximately 1970?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
Benazech, Peter Paul, ca. 1730–ca. 1783

Six views of the ruins of Balbec; Four views of the ruins of Palmyra

ca. 1750
Accessible in the Study Room
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
The art of drawing without a master

[1768]
Accessible in the Study Room
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy,

1754
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
Le Lacheur, Madame, active 1845

Novel and interesting exhibition of fancy shell-work!

[1845]
Accessible in the Study Room
Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893

Wild flowers

1852-53
Accessible in the Study Room
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887

London labour and the London poor

1861-1862
Accessible in the Study Room
Hofland, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1777–1843

Fourteen views of the mansion and garden seats of White-Knights,

[1819?]
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
Phillips, John, 1800–1874

Mexico illustrated

1848
Accessible in the Study Room
Wright, T

Some account of the life of Richard Wilson, esq., R. A.

1824
Accessible in the Study Room
Stukeley, William, 1687–1765

Itinerarium curiosum, or, An account of the antiquities and remarkable curiositys... [Read more]

MDCCXXIV [1724]
Accessible in the Study Room
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)

Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile

[1799]
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, Nicholas

You're never alone in the ocean

1981.]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837

A new description of Blenheim

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798

Some account of London

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy

[ca. 1801]

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