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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pointon, Marcia R
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Alexander, David (David S.)
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
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Black, Jeremy, 1955–
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Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
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Craske, Matthew
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Engel, Laura
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Hallett, Mark, 1965–
3
Hauptman, William, born 1945
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Langford, Paul
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Leppert, Richard D
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Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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Mowl, Tim
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history
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exhibition catalog
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- Bibliography.
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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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England.
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English wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
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Canaletto, 1697–1768
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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Div copy 1 Richard DeLong Hymnal Collection;
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Croome Park.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellie Hughes.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Aptekar Reeve.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Furniture History Society.
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Coaching days of England
1966
2
Thacker, Christopher
Building towers, forming gardens
2002
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802
2002
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough
1962
5
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
6
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress
[1995?]
7
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
8
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Alexander Pope
1985
9
Colley, Linda
Britons
1992
10
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
The roots of romanticism
1999
11
Hughes, Eleanor
Brave tars and glorious commanders
2016
12
Filtenborg, Troels, 1951–
Between formula and freestyle
2014
13
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
14
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
15
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
16
Enlightenment
c2003
17
Britiske mestere 1730-1850
[1949]
18
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
19
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
20
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
21
1776
2019
22
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
23
Vose Galleries of Boston
An important group of 18th and 19th century English paintings
1961
24
Lenihan, Liam
The writings of James Barry and the genre of history painting, 1775-1809
[2014]
25
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
26
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
27
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
28
British prints
[1989]
29
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
30
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
31
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
32
Clayton, Tim
The English print, 1688-1802
©1997
33
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
34
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
35
Bryant, Christopher
A new light on John Singleton Copley's portraits of Major General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Samuel Adams
2014?
36
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
37
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
38
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
39
Pointon, Marcia R
Scandalous jewellery at the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte
2009
40
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
41
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
42
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
43
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
44
Brookes, Patricia, 1933–
The Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, 1760-1801
1989
45
Brander, Michael
The Georgian gentleman
1973
46
Great Irish households
2022
47
Downes, Kerry
St George's, Bloomsbury
2008
48
"My highest pleasures"
2007
49
The history of the book in the West
2010
50
Jefcoate, Graham
Deutsche Drucker und Buchhändler in London, 1680-1811
[2015]
51
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
52
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
53
Ayres, Philip J
Classical culture and the idea of Rome in eighteenth-century England
1997
54
Art in bourgeois society, 1790-1850
c 1998
55
Making the news in 18th-century France
2012
56
Despoix, Philippe
Patagons et Polynésiens
57
Jones, Robert W., Dr
Gender and the formation of taste in eighteenth-century Britain
c1998
58
Architectural space in eighteenth-century Europe
c2010
59
Solkin, David H.
Art in Britain 1660-1815
[2015]
60
Eighteenth-century studies
61
Bibliography of British history, Stuart period, 1603-1714
1970
62
Johnson, A. F. (Alfred Forbes)
A catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages,
1934 (for 1933)
63
Cornforth, John, 1937–
English interiors 1790-1848
1978
64
Living with the Royal Academy
2013
65
English landscapes
1952
66
Visions of antiquity
c1993
67
Femininity and masculinity in eighteenth-century art and culture
c1994
68
A ramble on copper
[2003]
69
Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London
2007
70
Eighteenth and nineteenth century British watercolours and drawings
1983
71
Victoria and Albert Museum. Circulation Department
English creamware
[1968]
72
Drawing in 18th century Britain
1995
73
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
Dress in eighteenth-century Europe 1715-1789
c2002
74
Pickpocketing the rich
2002
75
O'Connell, Sheila
London
c2003
76
Hoock, Holger
The King's artists
2003
77
Kramer, Jack, 1927–
Women of flowers
c2005
78
Christie, Christopher
The British country house in the eighteenth century
2000
79
Wilcox, Scott, 1952–
The line of beauty
c2001
80
Splendour!
2017
81
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
c1997
82
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
Flesh in the Age of Reason
2004
83
Watkin, David, 1941–2018
The architect king
[2004]
84
Pratt, Stephanie, 1958–
American Indians in British art, 1700-1840
c2005
85
Brigstocke, Hugh
Refocusing the Grand Tour
[2010]
86
18th and 19th century drawings and watercolours
2009
87
Wonderwall
[2009]
88
Trading paintings and painters' materials 1550-1800
2019
89
Langford, Paul
Englishness identified
2000
90
McCracken, Grant David, 1951–
Politics and ritual Sotto Voce
91
Abbott and Holder (Gallery)
George Romney (1734-1802)
[2016]
92
Salomons, Vera
Gravelot,
1911
93
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Horace Walpole's miscellaneous correspondence
1980
94
Fairman, Elisabeth R
Pleasures and pastimes
1990
95
Hunter, J. Paul, 1934–
Before novels
1990
96
Johnston, Carol Ann
"Heavenly perspective"
c1992
97
Guillery, Peter
The small house in eighteenth-century London
c2004
98
Rogger, André
Landscapes of taste
2007
99
Turner and the masters
2009
100
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
The Georgians
1990
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