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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Alexander, William, 1767–1816
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Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
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Boydell, John, 1719–1804
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Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822
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Storff, Paul Auguste de
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685
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Mason, George Henry
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Archer, James, approximately 1632–approximately 1680
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Beckman, Martin, -1702
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Beverley, Robert, approximately 1673–1722
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Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
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Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
2
Korb, Johann Georg, -1720
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Mason, William, 1725–1797
2
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
2
Phillips, Thomas, -1693
2
Polygraphic Society (London, England)
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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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Available
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Classification
Books
243
Archives & Manuscripts
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Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
16
Prints
14
Maps & Atlas (printed)
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Periodicals
5
Drawings & Watercolors
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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unknown
335
Period
18th century
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19th century
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20th century
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17th century
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21st century
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16th century
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engraving
53
ink drawing
32
watercolor
30
map
28
aquatint
25
wood engraving
21
armorial bookplates (provenance)
20
etching
15
private press books (publishing)
14
commonplace book
10
ephemera
9
poem
9
graphite drawing
8
mezzotint
7
botanical illustration
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drawing book
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extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
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account book
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advertisement
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broadside
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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English poetry -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603–1714.
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Fortification -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Defenses.
16
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
12
English poetry -- 19th century.
8
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
8
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain.
7
Satire, English.
7
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760–1789.
6
Russia -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
6
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century.
5
Hull (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
5
Hull (England) -- Maps.
5
London (England) -- Description and travel.
5
London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
5
Miller, W. -- Publisher.
5
Russia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
5
School notebooks -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
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Associated Places
Great Britain
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England
33
France
24
United States
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London (England)
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London
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Russia
9
India
8
China
7
Italy
6
Canada
5
Europe
5
Hull (England)
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North America
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Virginia
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Great Britain America
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Guernsey
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Isle of Wight (England)
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Scotland
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West Indies
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
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Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
3
Garrick, David, 1717–1779
3
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
3
Beckford, William, 1760–1844
2
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
2
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
2
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
2
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
2
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
2
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
2
Abercorn, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1811–1885
1
Adam (Biblical figure)
1
Adams, Thomas, 1738–1770
1
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665–1714
1
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
1
Archer, Thomas,
1
Aston, Henry Hervey, 1759–1798
1
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719–1772
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Exhibition History
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
5
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
4
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
3
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
3
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
2
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
1
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
1
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara R. and Richard C. Glowacki, Yale BA 1954
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce Marshall Rare Books
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles R. Caldwell
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jock Reynolds
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Virgil R. & Mary L. Bierman.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Language
English
307
French
15
German
4
Latin
4
Dutch
2
Italian
2
Polish
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24 caricatures
1771 [i.e. 1772]
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[Batch of cakes]
1818?]
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[Carriage and harness manufacturer's pattern book]
[179-?]
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[Flower groups]
[1798]
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[Muster order for the enrollment into the Gloucestershire militia]
August 30, 1770
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[Pattern book for English knife and fork handles]
[ca. 1780?]
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Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815
[Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]
[1790]
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Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
[Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput]
1810]
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[The passions delineated]
[1797]
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Jukes, Francis, 1745–1812
[Views in the South Seas]
1787-1788
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Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
A book of maps
1777
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Marlborough Coffee House (London, England)
A catalogue of curious and true original pictures, by the best Italian and other masters
[1712]
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Boydell, John, 1719–1804
A catalogue of historical prints, various subjects, landscapes, sea pieces, views, &c.
1787-1794
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Boydell, John, 1719–1804
A catalogue of more than five thousand copper plates
[1818]
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A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby
1785
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