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Rare Books and Manuscripts 1,207
Reference Library 753
Prints and Drawings 122
Paintings and Sculpture 15

Creator

Unknown artist 137
Christie & Manson 122
Christie, James, 1773–1831 113
Christie, Manson & Woods 71
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 63
Phillips, H., -1840 37
National Gallery (Great Britain) 33
Tate Gallery 23
Victoria and Albert Museum 23
Edward Foster (Firm) 17
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 17
British Institution 16
Phillips, Mr. 13
Coxe, Peter, -1844 11
Foster and Son (London, England) 11
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England) 10
Courtauld Institute of Art 9
Dulwich Picture Gallery 9
Mr. Langford and Son 9
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 9
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 8
Greenwood, John, 1727–1792 8
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842 8
Blake, William, 1757–1827 7
Courtauld Institute Galleries 7
Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774 7
Richardson, William, active 1778–1815 7
Basire, James, 1730–1802 6
Donne, John, 1572–1631 6
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845 6

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 1,329
Accessible in the Reference Library 753
Not on view 13
On view 2

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 1,934
Free to Use 149

Image Available

unavailable 1,905
available 178

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 3

Classification

Books 1,796
Prints 84
Articles & Chapters 43
Drawings & Watercolors 43
Periodicals 19
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 19
Postcards 17
Paintings 15
Archives & Manuscripts 12
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 8
Computer Files 5
Photographs 5
Maps & Atlas (printed) 3
Videos 3
Music (printed) 1
Posters 1

Collective Title

"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 6
"The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster", Brayley and Britton, 1836 2
"A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey ", WJ Loftie, 1894. 1
"History of Westminster Abbey", R. Ackermann, 1871. 1
"Vetusta Monumenta", Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747-1906 1
Environs of London 1
The History of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green 1
“The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster”, Brayley and Britton, 1836. 1

Period

19th century 879
20th century 727
21st century 249
18th century 202
17th century 16
18th century-19th century 7
19th century-20th century 3
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 70
graphite 42
laid paper 25
line engraving 25
watercolor 25
black ink 23
oil paint 15
painting (technique) 15
pen 15
brown ink 12
canvas 12
etching (printing process) 11
pens 10
gray wash 6
lithography 6
aquatint 5
albumen process 4
gouache 4
woodcut (process) 4
card 3
gray ink 3
panel (wood) 3
stipple engraving 3
board 1
cardboard 1
collage 1
green pigment 1
hand coloring 1
pastel 1
red chalk 1

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Work Type

auction catalog 661
private press books (publishing) 173
catalog 87
ephemera 87
wood engraving 83
engraving 63
drawing 50
exhibition catalog 39
lithograph 38
intaglio print 37
poem 34
advertisement 31
auction catalogue 27
photomechanical print 26
watercolor 23
etching 22
drawing book 19
photograph 17
postcard 17
aquatint 15
painting 15
fiction 14
publisher's advertisement 14
armorial bookplates (provenance) 12
annotations (provenance) 11
chromolithograph 11
prices (provenance) 11
translation 10
menu 9
prospectuse 9

Genre

architectural subject 103
cityscape 28
genre subject 15
historical subject 11
landscape 8
marine art 2
military art 2
animal art 1
cartographic material 1
religious and mythological subject 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 654
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 630
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 531
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 408
London Institution -- Ownership. 325
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 320
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 262
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 161
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 142
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 133
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 128
architectural subject 103
Painting -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 90
Prints, European -- Catalogs. 87
Art -- Private collections. 69
Prints, British -- Catalogs. 69
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 64
Art -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 62
Agar, James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis, Earl of Normanton, 1818–1896 -- Bookplate. 59
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate. 55
Painting -- England -- London -- Exhibitions. 39
Bronzes -- Catalogs. 37
Porcelain -- Catalogs. 32
Furniture -- Catalogs. 29
Sculpture, British -- Catalogs. 29
Private libraries -- Catalogs. 28
Exhibitions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 26
cityscape 26
Exhibitions -- England -- London. 25
men 25

Subject Period

20th century 122
19th century 68
18th century 38
17th century 18
16th century 12
21st century 8
11th century 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th centuries 1

Associated Places

London 2,083

England 2,061
United Kingdom 126
City of Westminster 73
Palace of Westminster 56
Greater London 32
Europe 24
Westminster Abbey 19
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 16
House of Commons 15
Lambeth 15
Southwark 13
Thames 13
Vauxhall Gardens 13
St. Paul's Cathedral 11
City of London 9
House of Lords 7
England London 5
London (England) 4
Westminster Hall 4
Buckingham Palace 3
Great Britain 3
Regent's Park 3
Westminster 3
Whitehall 3
Dean's Yard 2
Greenwich 2
Palace of Whitehall 2
Piccadilly 2
Westminster bridge 2

Associated People

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792, 17
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 14
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 13
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 11
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640 10
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 10
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788, 8
Teniers, David, 1610–1690, 8
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641, 8
Blake, William, 1757–1827 7
Etty, William, 1787–1849, 7
Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682, 7
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669, 7
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 7
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782, 7
Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902, 6
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 6
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845 6
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610–1685 6
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640, 6
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 6
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 6
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841, 6
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 5
Both, Jan, 1618?-1652 5
Both, Jan, 1618?-1652, 5
Callcott, Augustus Wall, 1779–1844, 5
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 5
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528 5
Gilmore, Allan, approximately 1765–1841 5

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 4
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 3
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 3
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 2
Penn's England (Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1982-09-05 - ) 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
All The Queen's Horses (National Horse Racing Museum, 2003-04-26 - 2003-08-23) 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
J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21) 1
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03) 1
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 1
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 1
Royal River (National Maritime Museum, 2012-04-27 - 2012-09-09) 1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 1
The Age of William III and Mary II (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1989-02-13 - 1989-04-06) 1
The Age of William III and Mary II (The Grolier Club, 1988-12-13 - 1989-01-29) 1
The Architect and the British Country House (High Museum of Art, 1986-08-03 - 1986-09-27) 1
The Architect and the British Country House (National Academy Museum & School, 1986-05-04 - 1986-06-20) 1
The Architect and the British Country House (The Octagon Museum, 1985-11-05 - 1986-04-06) 1
The Art of Time (Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1999-12-18 - 2000-03-19) 1
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 1
William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30) 1
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-02-14 - 2019-05-20) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 131
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 4
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22826534440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 3
22709601630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709619600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22711725370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22711725670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22738131370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 2
22818957730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22606018760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 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
22606696800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606704000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606724490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606727260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606737970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606839470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606850810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606863460008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606865190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606868050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607144580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607197660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607324760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607356230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 1,929
French 6
German 2
Japanese 1
Latin 1

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unknown artist

View of Horse Guards and Whitehall

ca. 1750
unknown artist

The Hermitage

ca. 1772
unknown artist

The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's

ca. 1670
unknown artist

The Mall

between 1740 and 1750
unknown artist

A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's... [Read more]

between 1790 and 1799
unknown artist

The Interior of Westminster Abbey

ca. 1714
unknown artist

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

ca. 1834
On view
Jan Vorsterman, ca. 1643–after 1685

Greenwich, with London in the distance

ca. 1680
unknown artist

An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

mid-18th century
unknown artist

Thames at Lambeth Palace

after 1745
unknown artist

A Review of the London Volunteer Cavalry and Flying Artillery in Hyde... [Read more]

ca. 1804
unknown artist

The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

ca. 1725
On view
unknown artist

Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

1684
unknown artist

Lincoln's Inn, the Chapel, and Old Hall, London

ca. 1730
unknown artist

Restoration Procession of Charles II at Cheapside

mid-18th century

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