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Reference Library 23,290
Rare Books and Manuscripts 3,876
Prints and Drawings 2,086
Frames 18
Paintings and Sculpture 2

Creator

Rich, Townsend, 1909–1998 164
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 144
Victoria and Albert Museum 144
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 139
The, Paragon Press 139
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 121
Currie, Ken, born 1960 101
King, Simon, born 1951 98
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 82
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 69
Blake, William, 1757–1827 67
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878–1972 65
Ward, Lock & Co 64
Tate Gallery 63
Hart, Elizabeth Miss, Born 1887 60
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 55
Fine Art Society 53
London, Transport, 1937–2004 53
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 46
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 46
Larkins, William Martin, 1901–1974 45
Childers, Michael, born 1944 44
Unknown artist 43
National Trust (Great Britain) 41
Clark, Thomas A 39
Mee, Arthur, 1875–1943 38
National Gallery (Great Britain) 37
Buckley, Stephen, born 1944 36

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 23,290
Accessible in the Study Room 5,962
Not on view 2

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 29,159

Image Available

unavailable 29,159

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 6

Classification

Books 24,414
Articles & Chapters 1,382
Prints 1,080
Photographs 518
Periodicals 503
Drawings & Watercolors 195
Posters 187
Brass Rubbings 163
Music (printed) 127
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 123
Postcards 99
Archives & Manuscripts 77
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 64
Videos 47
Maps & Atlas (printed) 46
Frames 18
Computer Files 15
Visual Materials 14
Dissertations & Theses 11
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Paintings 3
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 2
Rare Books 1

Collective Title

Monumental Brass Rubbings 163
The Queen Victoria Memorial Panels, Calcutta 31
Ratcliffe Power Station 30
Enid Blyton's Old Testament Bible Plates 25
Yew 20
Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects 18
Venetian Views 17
Vessel 14
Fourteen Works 1982 - 89 13
Stonehenge Portfolio 13
Loop 12
Portraits 12
Ten Etchings 12
September Suite 11
Body and Soul 10
Madron Woodcuts (Half Moons) 10
Portfolio of prints 10
Fugue 9
London 9
The New York Suite 9
The Planted Works 1977-1992 9
First Folio 7
Screen 7
Venice Set 7
Between Visible and Invisible 6
A Line of Retreat 5
A Walk to the Studio 5
Light of the World Suite 5
Souvenir 5
The United Kingdom Shows Her Produce 5

Period

20th century 29,159

19th century 350
21st century 173
18th century 99
17th century 28
16th century 14
15th century 7

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 886
etching (printing process) 327
photographic paper 297
gelatin silver process 284
laid paper 271
screen printing 178
rubbing 163
wax crayon 163
collage 157
xerography 143
toning (photography) 117
drypoint 109
graphite 104
linocut 103
watercolor 89
gouache 70
contact printing 53
aquatint 47
lithography 43
color printing 39
dye destruction process 39
ink jet printing 38
artist's proof 33
color lithography 26
pastel 25
carborundum print 24
woodcut (process) 23
black chalk 21
hand coloring 20
lift-ground 20

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Work Type

photograph 490
exhibition catalog 471
artists' book 468
intaglio print 431
planographic print 407
ephemera 370
photomechanical print 370
relief print 327
drawing 323
private press books (publishing) 312
wood engraving 289
poster 184
history 164
collage 156
postcard 119
auction catalogue 116
watercolor 116
sheet music 115
catalog 104
auction catalog 91
chromolithograph 86
exhibition catalogue 86
memorial card 85
accordion fold format (binding) 75
periodical 70
poem 68
livres d'artiste 62
poetry 57
memorials (commemorative) 56
advertisement 54

Genre

architectural subject 707
abstract art 413
landscape 363
genre subject 297
portrait 275
cityscape 147
animal art 68
botanical subject 41
still life 40
historical subject 38
marine art 38
figure study 37
sporting art 21
religious and mythological subject 16
military art 12
literary theme 2
anatomical study 1
cartographic material 1

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 502
architectural subject 338
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 320
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 253
portrait 242
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 230
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 224
Rare books -- Catalogs. 183
Great Britain. 165
Art, Victorian -- Catalogs. 150
Blake, William, 1757–1827. 140
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 140
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 138
Painting, Victorian -- Catalogs. 136
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 134
Auction catalogs. 129
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 125
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 121
Watercolor painting, Victorian -- Catalogs. 121
Drawing, Victorian -- Catalogs. 116
Furniture -- Catalogs. 116
Art, British -- Catalogs. 115
Watercolor painting -- Catalogs. 115
Fox hunting. 113
abstract art 112
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 109
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions. 108
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref) 108
Watercolor painting, British -- Catalogs. 106

Subject Period

20th century 1,543
19th century 1,339
18th century 618
17th century 415
16th century 107
15th century 22
15th and 16th centuries 16
17th-18th centuries 16
11th century 7
12th century 5
14th century 4
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
21st century 2
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
10e siècle 1
13th century 1
16th-17th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1
19th centuries 1
29th century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
Antiquity and middle ages 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 3,929
England 3,196
London 772
London (England) 605
Scotland 378
United States 310
Ireland 229
Europe 226
France 165
India 145
Italy 133
Australia 115
Wales 115
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
England London 58
Germany 57
Edinburgh 54
South Asia 44
New York (State) 43
Middle East 40
Devon (England) 39
Netherlands 38
Oxford 37
Cambridge 36
Glasgow 35
Thames River (England) 35
Guildford 34
New York 33
Oxford (England) 33
California 32

Associated People

Blake, William, 1757–1827 296
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 251
Constable, John, 1776–1837 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 115
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 99
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 97
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 94
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 93
Morris, William, 1834–1896 84
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 77
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 76
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 63
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 59
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 53
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 52
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 51
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 50
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 50
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 45
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 44
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 43
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 38
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 37
Hockney, David, born 1937 35
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 35
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 33
Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825 33
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543 32
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 31
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 31

Exhibition History

Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 49
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 49
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 46
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 37
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 28
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 18
John Walker: The Carter Gift (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 13
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 12
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 11
Head to Toe: Impressing the Body (Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999-11-06 - 1999-12-17) 9
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 9
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers Galleries, 2011-01-26 - ) 9
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-09-16 - 2011-01-02) 9
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 7
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 6
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 4
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 4
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 4
C. R. W. Nevinson (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-02-25 - 2000-05-07) 3
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 2
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 1
Jem Southam - Upton Pyne (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 2008-03-19 - 2008-06-08) 1
Jem Southam - Upton Pyne (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2006-10-28 - 2007-01-14) 1
Jem Southam - Upton Pyne (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-08-28 - 2007-12-30) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 353
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 280
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 169
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich 163
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 141
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 135
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 80
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 57
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 55
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 53
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 45
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 34
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 27
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 25
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj 21
Yale Center for British Art 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the John Golding Artistic Trust, 2017 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elinor Appleton 18
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Israel Family 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 15
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn 14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Anthony and Madeleine Carter 13
Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with Funds Provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sheehan and Friends of British Art Fund 13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Keith C. and Mildred B. Marshall 12
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 11
22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10

Language

English 25,842
German 284
French 282
Italian 88
Dutch 39
Spanish 32
Undetermined 31
Japanese 28
Russian 19
Welsh 17
Latin 15
Portuguese 7
Multiple languages 5
Polish 5
Swedish 5
Danish 4
Norwegian 3
Icelandic 2
Afrikaans 1
Efik 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) 1
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 1
Hebrew 1
Korean 1
Scottish Gaelic 1

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John Walker, born 1939

Remembrance

1971
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John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Wall Dance 24.6.96

1996
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Victoria and Albert Museum

Pierre Culot: ceramics

1974]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965

Painting as a pastime

[1985?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Spink & Son

English paintings, watercolours and prints

1977
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Fine old master paintings

1995
Accessible in the Reference Library
Garrould, Ann

Henry Moore tapestries

1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
The McCormick collection of Victorian paintings

c1989
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Greenfield, Jane

Conservation and preservation at Yale

1980-1981
Accessible in the Reference Library
Rogers, Malcolm

Museums and galleries of London

1983
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Blunt, Anthony, 1907–1983

Nicolas Poussin

1967
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Low, D. A. (Donald Anthony), 1927–

The Regency underworld

2000
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Bold, John

Wilton House and English Palladianism

1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Morris, William, 1834–1896

William Morris by himself

1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Trevelyan, Raleigh

A Pre-Raphaelite circle

1978
Accessible in the Reference Library
Lomax, James

John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian age

c1979
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Church, Michael, 1936–

The classic pedigree 1776-1989

c1990
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Fellman, Bruce

Back to the BAC

1999
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Ferguson, George, 1899–1973

Signs & symbols in Christian art

[1954]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Willett, John

Art in a city

2007
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Tricolour

[1975?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm)

Victorian drawings and watercolours

[1981]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Bamford, Francis

A dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and furniture makers, 1660-1840

1983
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Catalogue, the P.E.N. Club

[1945]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Georgian Britain

1978?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Exhibition

[1976?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Hembry, Phyllis M. (Phyllis May)

The English spa, 1560-1815

1990
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Bury, Adrian, b. 1891

The life and art of Thomas Collier, R. I.,

[1944]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Bookbinder

1987-
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Paris, city of revolution

c1989
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Bellany, John

John Bellany in Cambridge

1991
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Dickinson, Frederick Binley

A lecture on the history of the Church of St. Mary of Ottery

1913
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Photograph album of the Lendrum and Munro families

ca. 1900-1950
Accessible in the Reference Library
Greenacre, Francis

Francis Danby, 1793-1861

c1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Bonython, Elizabeth

King Cole

[1982?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982

Bibliography of William Hazlitt

1931
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Hannan, Thomas, 1863–

Famous Scottish houses
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Africa illustrated

[1991]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Arts Council of England

Sublime

c1999
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Lawrence, A. W. (Arnold Walter), 1900–

Greek architecture

1962, c1957
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
The Trees collection

c1993
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Witt Library

Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

1979-1980]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Catalogue of an exhibition of Mogul (Indo-Persian) miniature paintings

1979
Accessible in the Reference Library
Humphreys, Richard

The British landscape through the eyes of the great artists

c1989
Accessible in the Reference Library
Corbally Stourton, Patrick

Songlines and dreamings

1996
Accessible in the Reference Library
Arnold, Janet, 1932–1998

Patterns of fashion

[1964]-
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
British and Victorian pictures

1996
Accessible in the Reference Library
Hambling, Maggi, born 1945

Towards laughter

c1993
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Holmes, Nicholas, 1949–

The Scott Monument

1979
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Modern British and continental paintings, watercolours,... [Read more]

1995

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