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Reference Library 39,460
Rare Books and Manuscripts 21,352
Prints and Drawings 7,293
Paintings and Sculpture 155

Creator

Unknown artist 7,448
Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 191
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 150
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 144
John Murray (Firm) 143
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 131
Christie & Manson 126
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 123
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 99
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 95
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 91
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 91
Blake, William, 1757–1827 87
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 86
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 85
Arts Council of Great Britain 72
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 68
Tate Gallery 68
Fine Art Society 67
Ward, Lock & Co 67
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852 66

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 39,460
Accessible in the Study Room 28,645
Not on view 140
On view 15

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 61,912
Free to Use 6,174

Image Available

unavailable 61,043
available 7,043

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 264

Classification

Books 53,618
Prints 6,103
Drawings & Watercolors 1,749
Articles & Chapters 1,627
Periodicals 981
Archives & Manuscripts 777
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 759
Maps & Atlas (printed) 509
Videos 303
Music (printed) 250
Photographs 227
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 194
Computer Files 151
Postcards 139
Paintings 129
Visual Materials 74
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 27,598
19th century 17,028
21st century 14,703
18th century 5,135
17th century 670
18th century-19th century 339
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
watercolor 703
laid paper 695
black ink 469
line engraving 391
etching (printing process) 342
pen 321
mezzotint 224
brown ink 219
gray wash 164
oil paint 135
painting (technique) 125
stipple engraving 115
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
steel engraving 31
white chalk 31
scratching out 29
red chalk 27
paper 26

Height [cm]

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Work Type

wood engraving 1,883
engraving 1,495
lithograph 1,347
exhibition catalog 1,300
ephemera 1,242
drawing 1,202
intaglio print 1,156
aquatint 1,153
auction catalog 1,105
watercolor 1,033
artists' book 905
chromolithograph 694
etching 620
history 613
map 477
woodcut 460
photograph 436
catalog 427
armorial bookplates (provenance) 400
photomechanical print 339
recreation 339
accordion fold format (binding) 337
advertisement 322
private press books (publishing) 315
drawing book 296
botanical illustration 277
ink drawing 275
memorial card 268
cut-paper work 264
incunabula 263

Genre

architectural subject 966
landscape 539
portrait 438
genre subject 411
cityscape 205
animal art 177
marine art 145
figure study 125
religious and mythological subject 108
literary theme 77
military art 67
historical subject 62
cartographic material 53
sporting art 44
botanical subject 35
still life 35
frontispiece 5

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,080
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 860
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 859
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. 654
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 605
Great Britain. 578
Art, British -- Catalogs. 493
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 478
Furniture -- Catalogs. 451
landscape 408
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 380
portrait 354
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Auction catalogs. 343
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 337
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 321
Incunabula in Yale Library. 300
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 295
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 290
Drawing -- Technique. 285
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 284
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 283
Grief. 271
Art -- Catalogs. 262
England. 260

Subject Period

19th century 3,945
20th century 3,651
18th century 1,497
17th century 703
21st century 344
16th century 276
15th century 59
17th-18th centuries 25
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
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
58 B.C.-511 A.D 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D 2
Silurian 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2
10e siècle 1
16th century, 1
16th-17th centuries 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 9,631
England 6,599
London 2,083
London (England) 1,299
Europe 796
Scotland 755
United States 635
France 509
Ireland 487
Italy 465
United Kingdom 447
India 414
Wales 333
Australia 241
Edinburgh (Scotland) 212
Edinburgh 190
Germany 172
England London 141
Asia 135
Middle East 130
Oxford (England) 130
Switzerland 117
Canada 115
Rome 114
Netherlands 113
Egypt 111
Spain 99
Kent (England) 94
America 89
Paris (France) 88

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 434
Blake, William, 1757–1827 377
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 207
Constable, John, 1776–1837 185
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 184
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 172
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 152
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 142
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 139
Morris, William, 1834–1896 137
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 135
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 124
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 123
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 119
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 113
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 111
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 84
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 84
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 84
Hockney, David, born 1937 81
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 78
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 75
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 73
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 69
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 65
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 64
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 62
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 61
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 59
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 59

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) 117
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) 29
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 5,567
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 383
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 304
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 254
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; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 20
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 19
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 55,985
French 958
German 671
Latin 420
Italian 280
Dutch 100
Spanish 89
Undetermined 65
Japanese 46
Russian 29
Multiple languages 23
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) 5
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

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
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
unknown artist

The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

ca. 1765
unknown artist

The Wolverhampton Racecourse

1837
unknown artist

A Woman, Previously Thought to Be Anne, Lady Cavendish

ca. 1725
unknown artist

View of Horse Guards and Whitehall

ca. 1750
unknown artist

Aeneas and the Sibyl

ca. 1800
unknown artist

The Hermitage

ca. 1772
unknown artist

Sunny Landscape with Trees and Monument on a Hill

ca. 1830
unknown artist

An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

ca. 1590
unknown artist

William Paulet, first Marquess of Winchester (1474/5?–1572)

ca. 1575
unknown artist

Sir Percival Hart (1496–1580)

ca. 1565
unknown artist

Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester (1532/3–1588)

ca. 1595
unknown artist

Landscape Sketch with Mountains

ca. 1920
unknown artist

Tantallon Castle (?), a study

ca. 1830
unknown artist

Upright Landscape

ca. 1830
unknown artist

Katherine Knollys (née Carey), Lady Knollys

1562
On view
unknown artist

Study of Birds

ca. 1840
unknown artist

Portrait of the Artist

1733 or after
unknown artist

Windsor Castle Seen from the Thames

ca. 1700
unknown artist

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg

1841 to 1844
unknown artist

Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays

ca. 1840
unknown artist

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

ca. 1670
unknown artist

Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"

ca. 1780
unknown artist

A View of Lambeth

ca. 1770
unknown artist

An Unknown Man, Aged 29, Possibly of the Kempe Family

1589
unknown artist

An Unknown Young Man

ca. 1622
On view
John Dixon, ca. 1740–1810 or 1811

Lee Priory, Kent

1785
unknown artist

The Old Parish Church and Village, Hampton-on-Thames, Middlesex, 18th... [Read more]

late 18th century

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