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Reference Library 39,121
Rare Books and Manuscripts 21,255
Prints and Drawings 7,292
Paintings and Sculpture 155

Creator

Unknown artist 7,447
Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 189
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 149
John Murray (Firm) 143
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 141
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 130
Christie & Manson 126
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 123
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 99
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 95
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 91
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 89
Blake, William, 1757–1827 87
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 86
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 85
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 71
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Constable, John, 1776–1837 70
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 69
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 67
Ward, Lock & Co 67
Fine Art Society 66
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852 66
Tate Gallery 66

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 39,121
Accessible in the Study Room 28,547
Not on view 140
On view 15

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 61,478
Free to Use 6,172

Image Available

unavailable 60,616
available 7,034

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 268

Classification

Books 53,390
Prints 6,101
Drawings & Watercolors 1,744
Articles & Chapters 1,621
Periodicals 966
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 754
Archives & Manuscripts 708
Maps & Atlas (printed) 509
Music (printed) 250
Photographs 225
Videos 211
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 194
Computer Files 149
Postcards 131
Paintings 129
Visual Materials 73
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 44
Posters 26
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 25
Dissertations & Theses 24
Sculptures 19
Ceramics 7
Musical Sound Recordings 7
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 4
Painted Objects 4
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Kits 1
PrintsVisual Materials 1

Collective Title

A Voyage Round Great Britain 104
London Cries: A Volume of Seventy-Seven Drawings 75
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 56
[One of] Sixty-seven sheets of elevations, ground plans, and ornamentation from several Gothic structures. One loose drawing. 51
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 46
A Collection of Surveys of Scottish Estates of the Earl of Selkirk 39
Views Taken at Exmouth and in Its Vicinity 31
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 26
A Book of Sundry Prints 25
Subjects copied from Barker's Rustic Figures 23
Porfolio of Sixteen Designs after Greek Vases 16
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 14
A Collection of 13 Rococo Designs for Furniture and Ornamental Work 13
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestoke House, Park and Surroundings 12
Sketchbook, 10 September, 1819 12
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Twelve Prints, Representing the Surprising Events in the Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 12
Eleven Designs for Houses and Shops 10
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 9
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 9
Eight Drawings of Hunting and Coaching 8
Views of Bencoolen 8
Black Bess 7
Dogs Drawn from Nature 7
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 7
"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 6
The Victorious Battles of the Immortal Prince, John Duke of Marlborough 5
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestone House, Park and Surroundings 4
Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 4
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 4

Period

20th century 27,310
19th century 16,969
21st century 14,620
18th century 5,130
17th century 669
18th century-19th century 341
15th century 328
16th century 248
19th century-20th century 109
17th century-18th century 71
unknown period 22
14th century 3
13th century 1
16th century-17th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 1,577
graphite 794
laid paper 705
watercolor 703
black ink 469
line engraving 430
etching (printing process) 364
pen 321
mezzotint 224
brown ink 219
gray wash 164
oil paint 135
painting (technique) 125
stipple engraving 117
gouache 105
hand coloring 75
canvas 70
lithography 68
gray ink 67
black chalk 61
brown wash 56
albumen process 46
aquatint 45
card 38
gelatin silver process 36
white chalk 31
scratching out 29
red chalk 27
paper 26
wood engraving (process) 25

Height [cm]

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Work Type

wood engraving 1,880
engraving 1,491
lithograph 1,347
exhibition catalog 1,305
ephemera 1,231
drawing 1,196
intaglio print 1,169
aquatint 1,152
auction catalog 1,103
watercolor 1,018
artists' book 902
chromolithograph 693
etching 618
history 618
map 476
woodcut 460
catalog 429
photograph 420
armorial bookplates (provenance) 400
photomechanical print 338
accordion fold format (binding) 337
recreation 336
advertisement 321
private press books (publishing) 315
drawing book 296
botanical illustration 274
memorial card 268
ink drawing 265
incunabula 263
cut-paper work 261

Genre

architectural subject 967
landscape 541
portrait 438
genre subject 413
cityscape 205
animal art 177
marine art 146
figure study 126
religious and mythological subject 111
literary theme 82
military art 66
historical subject 63
cartographic material 53
sporting art 44
botanical subject 35
still life 35
frontispiece 5

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,079
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 858
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 856
architectural subject 822
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 747
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 684
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 667
Rare books -- Catalogs. 650
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 605
Great Britain. 578
Art, British -- Catalogs. 494
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 478
Furniture -- Catalogs. 444
landscape 409
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 380
portrait 354
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Auction catalogs. 340
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 328
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 321
Incunabula in Yale Library. 300
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 295
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 284
Drawing -- Technique. 284
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 283
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 281
Grief. 271
England. 264
Art -- Catalogs. 259

Subject Period

19th century 3,916
20th century 3,610
18th century 1,486
17th century 703
21st century 338
16th century 279
15th century 58
17th-18th centuries 25
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 14
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
Silurian 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2
10e siècle 1
16th-17th centuries 1
16th-18th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 9,531
England 6,568
London 2,091
London (England) 1,295
Europe 795
Scotland 753
United States 634
France 508
Ireland 486
Italy 464
United Kingdom 447
India 412
Wales 333
Australia 241
Edinburgh (Scotland) 212
Edinburgh 190
Germany 170
England London 144
Oxford (England) 130
Middle East 129
Asia 122
Canada 116
Switzerland 114
Netherlands 113
Rome 111
Egypt 109
Spain 99
Kent (England) 94
America 89
Thames River (England) 88

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 429
Blake, William, 1757–1827 372
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 205
Constable, John, 1776–1837 185
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 178
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 174
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 151
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 149
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 146
Morris, William, 1834–1896 135
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 133
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 124
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 120
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 118
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 113
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 111
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 84
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 84
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 83
Hockney, David, born 1937 79
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 75
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 72
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 69
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 68
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 66
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 65
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 64
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 62
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 60
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 60

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 139
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 138
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 115
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 78
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 65
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 55
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 39
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 28
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 24
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 23
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 23
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 21
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 21
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 18
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 17
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 16
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019) 15
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 14
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 14
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 11
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 11
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 10
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 10
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 10
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 8
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 8
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25) 8
John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) 8
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 7
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 7

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5,565
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 384
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 304
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 253
Yale Center for British Art 153
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 85
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 52
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 49
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 42
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael Zinman 42
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 34
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 33
22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 31
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 28
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 25
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 25
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 20
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935 17
22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist 15
22709619810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 12
22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9

Language

English 55,613
French 950
German 656
Latin 416
Italian 277
Dutch 100
Spanish 89
Undetermined 66
Japanese 46
Russian 29
Multiple languages 22
Welsh 20
Swedish 17
Portuguese 16
English, Middle (1100-1500) 10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 10
Polish 9
Danish 8
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 8
Chinese 7
Hebrew 6
Efik 5
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Low German 4
Norwegian 4
Estonian 3
Scots 3
Afrikaans 2
Dakota 2
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 2

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Accessible in the Study Room
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29
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
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Constable, John, 1776–1837

Letter to John Thomas Smith

1797, between January 16 and March 23
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
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Alphabet

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

No. [blank] of Liber studiorum

[1807-1819]
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
after Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Brown's Parakeet

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Temptation of Christ

1795-1796
On view
unknown artist

Teyoninhokarawen (Major John Norton)

ca. 1805
Attributed to Robert Scaddan, 1720–1802

Portrait of a Man, called Tobias Smollett

ca. 1750
unknown artist

An Unknown Man

ca. 1720
unknown artist

Canal under construction, possibly the Bude Canal

ca. 1840
unknown artist

Sunset on the Beach at Sark

ca. 1850
On view
unknown artist

A Mallard, Black Bird and Tree Sparrow

ca. 1700
unknown artist

Portrait of a Woman

ca. 1565
unknown artist

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

ca. 1804
unknown artist

Seapiece with Boats: Evening

ca. 1815
unknown artist

The Interior of Westminster Abbey

ca. 1714
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape with Figures and Cattle

1806 to 1807
unknown artist

A Horse Frightened by a Lioness

ca. 1800
unknown artist

Trentham Park

ca. 1801
unknown artist

Crickhowell, Breconshire

ca. 1800
unknown artist

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

ca. 1834
unknown artist

Coast with Cliffs and Boats

early 19th century
unknown artist

Landscape with Lake and Two Figures Riding

ca. 1820
unknown artist

Street with Church and Figures

1822 to 1825
unknown artist

Yacht Racing on the Solent

ca. 1827
unknown artist

?Petit Andeleys on the Seine

1822 to 1825
unknown artist

Landscape with Lake

1828 to 1829
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape with Figures by a Lake

1825 to 1830
unknown artist

Avenue with Figures

ca. 1807
unknown artist

Landscape with Trees, Building in left middle distance

early 19th century
unknown artist

Man on a White Horse

early 19th century
unknown artist

Landscape with Trees on a Slope

early 19th century
unknown artist

The Billiard Room

ca. 1725

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