Collection: Reference Library / Work Type: history / Subject Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: Great Britain.

1. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

Creator:: Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 192 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Robert Adam : country house design, decoration, & the art of elegance / Jeremy Musson ; photography by Paul Barker ; foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins.

Creator:: Musson, Jeremy
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

Creator:: Weiss Gallery (London, England)
Date:: [2001?]
Physical Description:: 54 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Art in Britain 1660-1815 / David H. Solkin.

Creator:: Solkin, David H.
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 377 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Creator:: Sheldon, Esther K.
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: x, 530 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Splendour! : art in living craftsmanship / foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; edited by Adam Busiakiewicz and John Martin Robinson with assistance from David McKinstry ; with photography by Justin Paget.

Splendour! : art in living craftsmanship / foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; edited by Adam Busiakiewicz and John Martin Robinson with assistance from David McKinstry ; with photography by Justin Paget.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Britain and the Continent, 1660-1727 : political crisis and conflict resolution in mural paintings at Windsor, Chelsea, Chatsworth, Hampton Court and Greenwich / Christina Strunck.

Britain and the Continent, 1660-1727 : political crisis and conflict resolution in mural paintings at Windsor, Chelsea, Chatsworth, Hampton Court and Greenwich / Christina Strunck.

Creator:: Strunck, Christina
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 527 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum / edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis ; with the assistance of María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum / edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis ; with the assistance of María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 437 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. A bittersweet heritage : slavery, architecture and the British landscape / Victoria Perry.

Creator:: Perry, Victoria
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Art of power : masterpieces from the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart / Caitlin Blackwell with contributions by Peter Black and Oliver Cox.

Creator:: Blackwell, Caitlin
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 144 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 204 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Romantic mediations : media theory and British romanticism / Andrew Burkett.

Creator:: Burkett, Andrew, 1977–
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: xvi, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. The garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 / Maynard Mack.

Creator:: Mack, Maynard, 1909–2001
Date:: [1969]
Physical Description:: xviii, 341 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Spreading canvas : eighteenth-century British marine painting / edited by Eleanor Hughes ; with contribution by Eleanor Hughes ... [and 7 others].

Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: xiii, 298 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Gardens of court and country : English design, 1630-1730 / David Jacques.

Creator:: Jacques, David, 1948–
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: ix,406 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Travel and the British country house : cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century / edited by Jon Stobart.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xiii, 248 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander.

Creator:: Alexander, David (David S.)
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xii, 1,047 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. This realm of England, 1399 to 1688 / Lacey Baldwin Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Lacey Baldwin, 1922–2013
Date:: ©1983
Physical Description:: xv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Court, country, city : British art and architecture, 1660-1735 / edited by Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, and Martin Myrone.

Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 544 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Enriching architecture : craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760 / edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes ; with a foreword by Glenn Adamson.

Enriching architecture : craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760 / edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes ; with a foreword by Glenn Adamson.

Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 362 pages : illustrations (black and white and colour) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Pomp and piety : everyday life of the aristocracy in Stuart England / Ben Norman.

Creator:: Norman, Ben (Writer on early modern England)
Date:: 2023
Physical Description:: 287 pages : illustrations (color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Robert Adam and his brothers : new light on Britain's leading architectural family / edited by Colin Thom.

Creator:: Georgian Group (Symposium) (2015), creator
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: ix, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779 : a celebration of British craftsmanship and design.

Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 56 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.

24. The conversation piece : making modern art in 18th century Britain / Kate Retford.

Creator:: Retford, Kate, 1974–
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: xi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 : [exhibition and label text].

Date:: [2006]
Physical Description:: 85 unnumbered leaves ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. Enlightened princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world / edited by Joanna Marschner, David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford.

Enlightened princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world / edited by Joanna Marschner, David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xix, 571 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Nature's favourite child : Thomas Robins and the art of the Georgian garden / Cathryn Spence.

Creator:: Spence, Cathryn
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 312 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

2. Robert Adam : country house design, decoration, & the art of elegance / Jeremy Musson ; photography by Paul Barker ; foreword by Sir Simon Jenkins.

3. A noble visage : a catalogue of early portraiture 1545-1660.

4. Art in Britain 1660-1815 / David H. Solkin.

5. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

6. Splendour! : art in living craftsmanship / foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; edited by Adam Busiakiewicz and John Martin Robinson with assistance from David McKinstry ; with photography by Justin Paget.

7. Britain and the Continent, 1660-1727 : political crisis and conflict resolution in mural paintings at Windsor, Chelsea, Chatsworth, Hampton Court and Greenwich / Christina Strunck.

8. William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum / edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis ; with the assistance of María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.

9. A bittersweet heritage : slavery, architecture and the British landscape / Victoria Perry.

10. Art of power : masterpieces from the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart / Caitlin Blackwell with contributions by Peter Black and Oliver Cox.

11. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

12. Romantic mediations : media theory and British romanticism / Andrew Burkett.

13. The garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 / Maynard Mack.

14. Spreading canvas : eighteenth-century British marine painting / edited by Eleanor Hughes ; with contribution by Eleanor Hughes ... [and 7 others].

15. Gardens of court and country : English design, 1630-1730 / David Jacques.

16. Travel and the British country house : cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century / edited by Jon Stobart.

17. A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820 / David Alexander.

18. This realm of England, 1399 to 1688 / Lacey Baldwin Smith.

19. Court, country, city : British art and architecture, 1660-1735 / edited by Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, and Martin Myrone.

20. Enriching architecture : craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760 / edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes ; with a foreword by Glenn Adamson.

21. Pomp and piety : everyday life of the aristocracy in Stuart England / Ben Norman.

22. Robert Adam and his brothers : new light on Britain's leading architectural family / edited by Colin Thom.

23. Thomas Chippendale 1718-1779 : a celebration of British craftsmanship and design.

24. The conversation piece : making modern art in 18th century Britain / Kate Retford.

25. Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900 : [exhibition and label text].

26. Enlightened princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world / edited by Joanna Marschner, David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford.

27. Nature's favourite child : Thomas Robins and the art of the Georgian garden / Cathryn Spence.