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Reference Library 13,784
Prints and Drawings 964
Rare Books and Manuscripts 892
Paintings and Sculpture 49
Frames 3

Creator

Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 382
Sotheby's (Firm) 157
Christie, Manson & Woods 132
Selkirk, Neil, born 1947 125
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 58
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 50
Southam, Jem, born 1950 47
Fraser, Peter, born 1953 46
Dixon, Jane, born 1963 45
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 43
Parker, Cornelia, 1956– 30
The, Paragon Press 30
Florio, Jason, born 1965 29
Bush, Tracey 28
Douglas, Helen, 1952– 28
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 28
Dilnot, John 24
Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, born 1977 24
Hirst, Damien, born 1965 23
Hockney, David, born 1937 23
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022 23
Alan, Cristea Gallery 22
Emin, Tracey, born 1963 22
Ackroyd, Norman, 1938– 21
Fox, Anna, born 1961 21
Shaw, George, born 1966 21
Morpeth, Sarah 20
Yale Center for British Art 20
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline 19
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 18

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 13,784
Accessible in the Study Room 1,856
Not on view 45
On view 4

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 15,676

Image Available

unavailable 14,906
available 770

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 96

Classification

Books 14,029
Photographs 736
Videos 184
Prints 180
Computer Files 137
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 104
Periodicals 84
Drawings & Watercolors 77
Paintings 31
Sculptures 18
Articles & Chapters 15
Maps & Atlas (printed) 12
Dissertations & Theses 11
Postcards 10
Archives & Manuscripts 7
Visual Materials 5
Frames 3
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Musical Sound Recordings 2
Kits 1
Music (printed) 1
Posters 1

Collective Title

Photographers Photographed 301
Lobbyists 60
Snapshots 53
Nazraeli Monograph 42
Regeneration 41
The Painter's Pool 37
City Index 36
This Is Libya 28
Men Like Me 25
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 22
Fly 20
Flora 17
Back to the Village 16
Ratcliffe Power Station 16
Jane Eyre Series 14
Twelve Short Walks 14
Nourishment 13
Jane Eyre, The Guardians 10
Portrait of A.D.(Tony) Nuttall 10
Creole Portraits III: “Bringing Down the Flowers” 6
Heraclitus III: 7 Days on the Colorado 6
The City of London Drawings 5
Quadra 1 - 4 4
The Camouflage Suite 4
Under False Colours 4
Between Visible and Invisible 3
Getting Ready for the Ball Triptych 3
High Summer 2
Shock and Awe 2
The Longue Durée 2

Period

21st century 15,676

20th century 173
19th century 23
18th century 5

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 559
ink jet printing 417
collage 330
photographic paper 329
mixed media 326
gelatin silver process 179
chromogenic processes 152
graphite 54
toning (photography) 52
etching (printing process) 48
rubbing 41
dye coupler processes 38
photogravure 38
graph paper 36
painting (technique) 28
lithography 20
Pigment printing 19
canvas 16
acrylic paint 15
color printing 14
oil paint 14
charcoal 13
watercolor 8
paper 7
screen printing 7
Mylar 6
gouache 6
panel (wood) 6
wood 5
wood block printing 5

Height [cm]

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Work Type

exhibition catalog 799
photograph 768
history 448
digital print 429
artists' book 416
auction catalog 237
catalog 174
criticism, interpretation, etc 172
accordion fold format (binding) 129
biographie 97
intaglio print 95
exhibition catalogue 92
cut-paper work 90
biography 75
drawing 72
pictorial work 67
photomechanical print 49
art 43
guidebook 39
interview 38
illustrated work 36
ephemera 33
wood engraving 32
planographic print 31
catalogues d'exposition 29
painting 28
botanical illustration 25
map 24
periodical 24
postcard 23

Genre

portrait 587
abstract art 188
architectural subject 145
landscape 145
genre subject 75
still life 70
cityscape 56
cartographic material 46
botanical subject 37
literary theme 15
figure study 12
military art 9
animal art 6
historical subject 2
religious and mythological subject 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 638
Rare books -- Catalogs. 460
Great Britain. 389
Art, British -- Catalogs. 376
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 355
portrait 352
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 332
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 314
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 285
Furniture -- Catalogs. 283
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 224
Auction catalogs. 204
Silver -- Catalogs. 192
Art -- Catalogs. 182
Women in natural history. 162
Ceramics -- Catalogs. 157
England. 155
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 154
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 122
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 121
Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Catalogs. 116
Maps -- Catalogs. 110
Photography, Artistic. 98
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 97
Painting, Irish -- Catalogs. 89
abstract art 86
Art, European -- Catalogs. 85
Watercolor painting, British -- Catalogs. 85
Art, British. 80
England -- London. 80

Subject Period

20th century 1,959
19th century 1,080
18th century 557
21st century 338
17th century 199
16th century 124
15th century 12
17th-18th centuries 7
Geschichte 4
11th century 2
14th century 1
15th and 16th centuries 1
20th centuy 1
21th century 1
England 1
Great Britain 1
India 1
London 1
New York (State) 1
Republic, 265-30 B.C 1
South America 1
Spain 1
United States 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 2,179
England 1,271
London 253
United States 216
London (England) 171
Europe 165
Scotland 155
Ireland 148
Australia 94
India 89
England London 82
France 51
Canada 50
Italy 47
Wales 43
Middle East 32
Connecticut 29
New York 29
Edinburgh 28
New Haven 27
Germany 26
New York (State) 26
California 19
Tripoli 19
Venice (Italy) 18
Bristol 17
Jamaica 17
Libya 16
Thames River (England) 16
Brighton 15

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 133
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 74
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 70
Blake, William, 1757–1827 67
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 57
Constable, John, 1776–1837 56
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 48
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 45
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 45
Morris, William, 1834–1896 45
Hockney, David, born 1937 44
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 41
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 41
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 40
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 39
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 39
Hirst, Damien, born 1965 37
Emin, Tracey, born 1963 36
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 36
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 28
Gormley, Antony, Sir, born 1950 26
Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903–1975 26
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 25
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 23
Hodgkin, Howard, Sir, 1932–2017 23
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 23
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022 22
Scully, Sean, 1945– 22
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941 20
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 19

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 49
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 49
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 46
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-12 - 2020-12-15) 20
George Shaw : A Corner of a Foreign Field (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-10-04 - 2018-12-30) 15
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 12
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 5
Rebecca Salter (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-02-03 - 2011-05-01) 4
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Deluge (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-12-18 - 2019-03-24) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2
Prospects of Empire : Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2014-11-17 - 2015-05-01) 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
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020-03-14 - 2021-01-18) 1
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2021-12-01 - 2022-03-27) 1
An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain (The Amon Carter Museum, 2021-04-17 - 2021-08-08) 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: The Provocation of Conditions (Yale Center for British Art, 2021-06-21 - 2021-08-23) 1
British Subjects : Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1996-2009 (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 2009-09-13 - 2010-01-31) 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
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) 1
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 1
Ori Gersht (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-11-06 - 2007-12-21) 1
Ori Gersht , History Repeating (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2012-08-28 - 2013-01-06) 1
Printing Darkness (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-06-20 - 2025-12-07) 1
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 1
Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 691
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 104
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Andria Derstine 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 21
Yale Center for British Art, Laura and James Duncan, Yale BA 1975, and Friends of British Art Fund, in honor of Gillian Forrester 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Priseman Seabrook Collection 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brigitte Graneau 13
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation, Iola S. Haverstick Fund 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard Hamilton 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Artist 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist, through the Foster Art & Wilderness Foundation 6
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Driek's parents, Gertrude Bersch Bestebreurtze and Arie D. Bestebreurtze 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Michael's parents, Edith Silker Zirinisky and Nahman Zirinsky 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 4
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund 4
22960448240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 3
Yale Center for British Art 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barford Sculptures, Ltd. 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 3
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund, with additional support from Francis O’Brien 3
22652020100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22653420300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Folio Society 2
22826422130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22861684240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22895859820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22976297410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss 2
Yale Center for British Art, Director's Discretionary Fund 2

Language

English 14,051
French 146
German 111
Italian 59
Spanish 35
Japanese 15
Dutch 14
Multiple languages 9
Chinese 7
Portuguese 6
Russian 5
Undetermined 4
Estonian 3
Polish 3
Swedish 3
Dakota 2
Hungarian 2
Welsh 2
Catalan 1
Croatian 1
Danish 1
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 1
Hebrew 1
Slovak 1
Vietnamese 1

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Tracey Emin, born 1963

I Followed you to the end

2024
On view
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born 1977

Any Number of Preoccupations

2010
Carol Rhodes, 1959–2018

Houses, Gardens

2007
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

The Sea Brought Them, 6/28/00

2000
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Study I, November 2011

November, 2011
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Study IV, December 2011

December, 2011
Nick Mead, born 1968

Untitled 3

2013
Eileen Hogan, born 1946

Ian Hamilton Finlay

2012
Sheila Girling, 1924–2015

Light Lunch

2006
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Color Studies, October 2011

October, 2011
Mark Leonard, born 1954

Constable Working Study, October 2011

October, 2011
Sir Christopher Le Brun, born 1951

Kingdom

2015
Tom Wood, born 1955

Cock and Bull, a Portrait of Teddy

2013
George Shaw, born 1966

Mum's

2018
Ansel Krut, born 1959

Narcissi

2015
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Night Song 27.4.06

2006
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

Iron Shore (6/26/01)

2001
On view
Cecily Brown, born 1969

The Hound with the Horses' Hooves

2019
Jules Clarke

Dancing on Ice

2011
Nathan Eastwood, born 1972

Time Passing

2013
Sean Williams, born 1966

Our Bloody Hell

2017
Katy Moran, born 1975

Black Bear

2008
Susan Gunn, born 1965

Black Gesso Study, Space IV

2008
Alex Hanna, born 1964

Bubble 6

2014
Marguerite Horner, 1954

Glimpse

2010
Simon Burton, born 1973

Divine

2014
Simon Carter, born 1961

Yacht

2009
Damien Hirst, born 1965

Forgive

2003
Kehinde Wiley, born 1977

Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite

2017
Accessible in the Study Room
Open house London

[2011]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

Bethany seeds

2013
Accessible in the Study Room
Brown, Hannah (Bookbinder)

Butterflies

made in 2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

Pond life

2014
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

Moth collection

2013
Accessible in the Study Room
Douglas, Helen, 1952–

Field notes

2006
Accessible in the Study Room
Project Ocean

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
South Bank Centre

Summer of smiles

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

Antmothbeetlemillipedespider

2006
Accessible in the Study Room
Cockburn, Julie

[Flower book

[2005]
Accessible in the Study Room
Michael Landy, Born 1963

Nourishment, Portfolio of 12 Etchings

2002
Accessible in the Study Room
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–

The poetry box

[2003]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cockburn, Julie

Butterflies

2004
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall Source Photograph 1

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall Source Photograph 2

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall Source Photograph 3

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

A.D.Nuttall's Room in New College, Oxford

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall, Stage 3 Proof

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall, Stage 5 Proof

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall Source Photograph 2, Color Corrected

2004 to 2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011

Tony Nuttall, Stage 1 Proof

2004 to 2005

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