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Rare Books and Manuscripts 9,369
Reference Library 1,657

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Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 120
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 103
John Murray (Firm) 96
Christie, Manson & Woods 79
Britton, John, 1771–1857 56
Phillips, H., -1840 38
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 33
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 32
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 31
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 30
Adam and Charles Black (Firm) 28
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861 28
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 28
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 24
Morris, William, 1834–1896 23
Burnet, John, 1784–1868 22
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 22
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 22
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863 22
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864 21
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860 21
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 20
Combe, William, 1742–1823 20
National Art Library (Great Britain) 19
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792–1872 19
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892 19
Edward Foster (Firm) 17
Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842 17
Phillips, Mr. 17

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Accessible in the Study Room 9,369
Accessible in the Reference Library 1,657

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Under Certain Circumstances 10,499
Free to Use 491

Image Available

unavailable 10,434
available 556

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 1

Classification

Books 10,990

Collective Title

Period

19th century 10,990

20th century 270
18th century 119
17th century 28
21st century 19
16th century 15
15th century 8

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

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Work Type

wood engraving 1,400
lithograph 980
aquatint 892
auction catalog 632
engraving 579
chromolithograph 454
etching 262
chromoxylograph 223
ephemera 211
armorial bookplates (provenance) 202
drawing book 181
steel engraving 179
advertisement 137
publisher's advertisement 127
soft-ground etching 122
catalog 121
lithotint 121
publishers' advertisement 120
prospectuse 114
stipple engraving 107
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 93
hand coloring 73
photograph 72
photomechanical print 62
broadside 60
panorama 60
map 57
mezzotint 57
juvenile literature 54
recreation 51

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Subject Terms

Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 564
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 558
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 484
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 363
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 325
London Institution -- Ownership. 235
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 235
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 230
Drawing -- Technique. 164
Middle Hill Press -- Publisher. 160
Drawing books -- Specimens. 156
Satire, English. 138
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 131
Voyages and travels. 131
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 117
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher. 116
Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance. 107
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 106
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 104
Drawing -- Study and teaching. 98
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate. 95
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 91
Art -- Private collections. 89
Murray, John -- Publisher. 89
Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance. 89
English wit and humor, Pictorial. 88
Painting -- Technique. 82
Decoration and ornament. 79
Prints, European -- Catalogs. 79
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. 78

Subject Period

19th century 1,000
18th century 97
20th century 48
17th century 23
16th century 19
15th century 9
15th and 16th centuries 3
To 500 3
11th century 2
12th century 2
Alfred, 871-899 2
13th century 1
18h century 1
19h century 1
19th Century 1
6th century 1
Silurian 1
To 332 B. C 1
To 332 B.C 1
To 400 1
[18--] 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 1,852
England 1,242
London 770
London (England) 307
Edinburgh (Scotland) 159
France 143
Italy 123
Scotland 122
India 117
United States 95
Edinburgh 88
Wales 73
Europe 72
Ireland 61
Oxford (England) 58
Egypt 51
Glasgow (Scotland) 50
Hammersmith 50
Brighton (England) 46
Lake District (England) 43
Paris (France) 43
Spain 42
Turkey 42
Middle East 41
Switzerland 40
Yorkshire (England) 40
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) 39
China 37
Russia 36
Devon (England) 35

Associated People

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 50
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 48
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 45
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 34
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 30
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 28
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 26
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832 26
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 23
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 22
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 21
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 20
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852 20
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 19
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 18
Raphael, 1483–1520 18
Britton, John, 1771–1857 17
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640 17
Morland, George, 1763–1804 15
Jesus Christ 14
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830 13
Franklin, John, 1786–1847 12
Glover, John, 1767–1849 12
Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682 12
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610–1685 12
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841 12
Both, Jan, 1618?-1652 11
Etty, William, 1787–1849 11
Teniers, David, 1610–1690 11
Titian, approximately 1488–1576 11

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 119
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 75
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 28
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 22
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 16
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 13
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 13
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 10
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2026-01-08 - 2026-05-31) 10
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 10
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 8
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 8
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 6
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 4
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 3
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 2
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 2
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 1
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus: Relics of Old London (Yale Center for British Art, May 11, 2016-August 14, 2016) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 1

Credit Line

22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22653444540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22738147590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 3
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22809675040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22826534440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 3
22895863350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22960435500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22968184970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22652018380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler 2
22652018520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler 2
22652025280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22653395040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 2
22653398230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22653398580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2

Language

English 10,415
French 246
German 63
Latin 40
Italian 26
Undetermined 15
Dutch 6
Spanish 5
Swedish 5
Russian 4
Scots 3
Hebrew 2
Multiple languages 2
Danish 1
Efik 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
Norwegian 1
Polish 1
Portuguese 1
Welsh 1

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Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)

London and its environs in the nineteenth century

[1829, i.e. 1829-1831]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857

Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871

Skelton's Engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Clark, W. A. V. (William A. V.)

Ten views in the island of Antigua

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Lucas, Thomas J

Pen & pencil reminiscences of a campaign in South Africa

[1861]
Accessible in the Study Room
Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795–1849

Sketches of character

1837[-1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874

Designs for mosaic and tessellated pavements

MDCCCXLII [1842]
Accessible in the Study Room
Marquez y Encheandia, Luis

Las cofradias de Sevilla

1888?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Sketches of the New Road in a journey from Calcutta to Gyah

1830
Accessible in the Study Room
Austin & Seeley

Collection of ornaments at Austin & Seeley's artificial stone works

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Edwards, James, 1756–1816

A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
Burnes, James, 1801–1862

Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus

1839
Accessible in the Study Room
Spooner's transformations

1838 [-39]
Accessible in the Study Room
MacKenzie, David Maitland, 1800–1875

Classes for oil painting, water colour and pencil drawing, &c., 46,... [Read more]

May, 1843
Accessible in the Study Room
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852

The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875

Views in the eastern archipelago

Augt., 1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Gulflocher, Leopolde

Leopolde Gulflocher, sculpteur en marbre et albatre

[approximately 1815]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gilks, Edward, 1822?-

Edward Gilks, ornamental designer

[1840?]
Accessible in the Study Room
White, George Francis, 1808–1898

Views in India

1836-1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845

The Linwood gallery of pictures in needle-work

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Parnell & Banner

Parnell & Banner

[approximately 1850]
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
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836–1919

Snow-flakes and the stories they told the children

[1862]
Accessible in the Study Room
Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery

Report of a professional tour of officers of the Royal Artillery in 1865

1866
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, William, 1769–1837

A voyage round Great Britain

1814-1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831

Select views in Great Britain

[1813?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Lady

Original sketches in the Punjaub

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Patison, Jane M

Gleanings among the British ferns

1858
Accessible in the Study Room
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours

[1801]
Accessible in the Study Room
Armer's (Flookborough, England]

Armer's, Flookborough

[early 19th century]
Accessible in the Study Room
The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Six views of Buxton & neighbourhood

[185-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Williamson, Thomas

Oriental field sports

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870

Sketches in India

1862
Accessible in the Study Room
Gillray, James, 1756–1815

A new edition considerably enlarged, of Attitudes faithfully... [Read more]

[1807]
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811

[African scenery and animals]

[1804-1805]
Accessible in the Study Room
Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew

West Indian scenery

1838-1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874

Examples of encaustic tiles, drawn on stone,

1844
Accessible in the Study Room
Pigot, James, 1769–1843

Pigot, engraver & copper plate printer

[between 1810 and 1821]
Accessible in the Study Room
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

The costume of Great Britain

1804 [that is, not before 1819]
Accessible in the Study Room
Schnebbelie, Jacob, 1760–1792

The antiquaries museum

MDCCXCI [1791, i.e. 1800]
Accessible in the Study Room
Richards, J.

The kind-hearted girl

[1845]
Accessible in the Study Room
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

Rowlandson's sketches from nature

[1822]
Accessible in the Study Room
National Festival in honor of the Centenary Birthday of Scotland's immortal... [Read more]

[1859]
Accessible in the Study Room
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818

Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Williamson, Thomas, Captain

The costume and customs of modern India

[1813]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bowler, Thomas William, 1813–1869

The Kafir wars and the British settlers in South Africa

1865
Accessible in the Study Room
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878

Six illustrations to Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin

MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Accessible in the Study Room
Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler,... [Read more]

[approximately 1850]

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