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Rare Books and Manuscripts
95
Archives
1
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Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
3
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
3
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
2
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
2
A. & S. Henry & Co
1
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
1
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
1
Bainbridge family
1
Benedict-Jones, Linda
1
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956
1
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
1
Britton, John, 1771–1857
1
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
1
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
1
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898
1
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
1
Christie, John, 1945–
1
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
96
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
93
Free to Use
3
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Unavailable
86
Available
10
New Additions
2023-2024
1
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Archives & Manuscripts
83
Books
10
Prints
2
Dissertations & Theses
1
Creator Gender
unknown
96
Period
19th century
58
20th century
39
18th century
17
21st century
5
16th century
1
Work Type
correspondence
96
ink drawing
16
photograph
14
graphite drawing
9
engraving
7
watercolor
7
wood engraving
7
diarie
6
clippings (information artifacts)
5
drawings (visual works)
5
private press books (publishing)
5
albumen print
4
artists' book
4
commonplace book
4
ephemera
4
notebook
4
photograph album
4
scrapbook
4
clipping
3
photomechanical print
3
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Painters -- Great Britain.
13
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
9
Artists -- Great Britain.
8
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
6
Painting -- Great Britain.
5
Painting, British -- 19th century.
5
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
5
Artists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
4
Photography.
4
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Correspondence.
4
Art, British.
3
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
3
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480-1519 -- Correspondence.
3
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
3
Circle Press.
3
King, Ron, 1932-
3
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
3
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters.
3
Sculpture -- Great Britain.
3
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
3
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Subject Period
19th century
13
20th century
4
16th century
3
18th century
3
Associated Places
Great Britain
42
England
8
London
4
Italy
3
India
2
Papal States
2
Africa, North
1
Antwerp (Belgium)
1
Belgium
1
Birmingham
1
Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
1
British Isles
1
Brussels (Belgium)
1
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
1
Carthage (Extinct city)
1
Cassiobury Park (Watford, England)
1
China
1
China Sea
1
Church buildings Great Britain
1
Cyprus
1
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Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
5
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
4
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
4
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547
3
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Hunt, William Holman, 1827–1910
3
King, Ron, 1932–
3
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896
3
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
3
Brown, Ford Madox, 1821–1893
2
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806–1861
2
Constable, John, 1776–1837
2
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
2
Heaton, Ellen, 1816–1894
2
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
2
Hughes, Arthur, 1832–1915
2
Inchbold, John William, 1830–1888
2
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
2
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830–1896
2
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Exhibition History
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
1
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
15
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Courtesy Linda Benedict-Jones
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cathy Courtney
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda Brownrigg; Friends of British Art Fund
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ron King and Willow Legge
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Honolulu Academy of Arts
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Salter Family
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
1
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English
95
French
1
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29
1773 January 29
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse
[1753]
3
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Letter to John Thomas Smith
1797, between January 16 and March 23
4
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Clare Leighton collection,
1949-1953
5
Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital"
1837
6
Field, William, 1854–1932
William Field scrapbook
1895
7
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
Letter from Thomas Clarkson to Thomas Middleditch
1842?
8
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874–1962
Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta
1921
9
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785
1785
10
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Mary Linwood letter, to an unidentified recipient, July 27, about trilobite and fossil specimens she has obtained
circa 1830? July 27
11
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letters to his sister Mrs. Mary Gibbon,
1777-1781
12
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Edward Lear archive,
ca. 1840-1985
13
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Joshua Reynolds archive,
1749-1816
14
Royle, Amy Mabel Fanshawe, 1863–1951
Eaton Mascott alphabet
circa 1894?-1918
15
Southall, Joseph E
Joseph Southall archive,
1898-1910
16
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray,
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
17
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
153 letters from W.H. Hudson
1923
18
Shepperson, Matthew, 1785–1874
Matthew Shepperson archive,
1810-1869
19
Shirley Smith, Richard
Roger W. Moss collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith,
1961-2011
20
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
John Le Capelain letter to J.J. Gabousel
1841 May 2
21
Garnett-Botfield, Helen Stella Alexandrina, 1887–1962
Alexandrina Garnett-Botfield album of the Aston Hall Auxiliary Military Hospital
1918
22
Art notices
1883-1927
23
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Charles Robert Leslie collection,
circa 1812-1900
24
Miles & Edwards (London)
Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence,
1832-1875
25
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
Ethel Beatrice Angear archive
1891-1923 (bulk 1914-1918)
26
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin letters to Thomas Goff Lupton,
1845-1873
27
Christie, John, 1945–
John Christie archive,
1975-1995
28
Pleasonton, John H.
John H. Pleasonton letter to his father, 1823 June 13
1823 June 13
29
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
30
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Harriet & Mary
1944
31
Clifford, Edward, 1844–1907
Edward Clifford scrapbooks
circa 1870-circa 1925
32
Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient
1836 December 28
33
Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens,
1708-1875,
34
Caldecote Journal
1854-1855
35
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Shaw-Ede
1942
36
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence,
1767-1917
37
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Messer Pietro mio
1985
38
Taylor, W. B., fl. 1854
Letter to Charles Taylor, with watercolor Union Jack
1854 March 31
39
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878–1957
Paul Oppé letters to Janet Camp Troxell,
1950-1957
40
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
Letter from Albert, Prince Consort, to Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
1860 April 13
41
Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898
Philip Hermogenes Calderon correspondence from John Everett Millais and Frederic Leighton,
1886-1896
42
Whyte family correspondence,
1880-1892
43
Royal College of Art (Great Britain). Sketch Club
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection,
1934-1937
44
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton,
1855-1875
45
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Poetry Box archive,
ca. 2001-2003
46
Pugin family archive,
ca. 1790-1870
47
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
48
Porcher, Edwin A., 1824–1878
Edwin Augustus Porcher collection
1849-1861
49
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Edward Burne-Jones Letters to Cormell Price,
1852-1862
50
Letters to Richard Redgrave,
ca. 1840-ca. 1880
51
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
Robert Bruce letter concerning the wax sculpture of his mother, Rose Bruce
1807
52
Wareing, Alfred, 1876–1942
Alfred Wareing archive,
ca. 1891-2007
53
Pegasus Club (England)
Pegasus
1900 January-1901 March
54
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1834]
55
Love, William, engineer
Patent application for a minesweeping device
1914-1915
56
Bainbridge family
Bainbridge deer park management archive,
1760-1821
57
Smith, Sam, 1908–
Sam Smith collection,
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
58
Letter ordering a camera obscura for Count Alessandro Baldeschi Eugeni
Florence?,
59
Wicksted, Charles, 1796–1870
Charles Wicksted commonplace book
1833-circa 1870
60
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
James Bruce archive,
ca. 1750-ca.1850
61
Hunikin, Ch. L
Ch. L. Hunikin letter to "My Dear Mary" of Castelton near Newport
1814 June 14
62
Courtney, Cathy
Cathy Courtney collection of artists' books ephemera,
ca. 1982-2003
63
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR
1750-1778
64
Jones family
Jones family archive
1805-1945
65
James I, King of England, 1566–1625
Letter from James I to an unidentified recipient
circa 1590?
66
Riley, Bridget, born 1931
Letter from Bridget Riley to Rose Gerlach, 1964 September 15
1964 September 15
67
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Hubert von Herkomer archive,
1862-1943
68
Letter to Anthony Abbott on the mixing and use of paint colors
1838 October 4
69
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures
1797-1803
70
Parker, Henry Perlee, 1795–1873
Henry Perlee Parker collection,
1822-1970
71
Letters concerning paintings in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1828-1841
72
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld
1953
73
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to William Houghton Clabburn,
1863-1865
74
Clutterbuck, Robert, 1772–1831
Collection of letters to Robert Clutterbuck concerning his History and antiquities of the county of Hertford,
1808-1827
75
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Letters to his son
1973
76
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton,
1850-1864,
77
King, Ron, 1932–
Daniel King Circle Press archive,
1967-2003
78
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Letters to Edmund Cartwright
September 20, 1797 and February 16, 1798
79
Fisher, John, 1788–1832
Archdeacon John Fisher letters to John Constable
1822-1830
80
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Shelley at Oxford
1944
81
Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis,
1863-1914
82
Benedict-Jones, Linda
Linda Benedict-Jones archive,
1972-1992 (bulk 1981-1982)
83
A. & S. Henry & Co
A. & S. Henry & Co. letter to I. Edmondson & Co., requesting samples of woolen goods
1846 February 6
84
Norris, Robert Provo, d. 1851
Robert Provo Norris Collection,
1846-1854
85
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
Photography
ca. 1853-1857
86
Wootton, Stanley, 1895–1986
Stanley Wootton archive,
1933-1934
87
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
Edward Burne-Jones letters to John Ruskin,
1862-ca. 1889
88
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Family records collected by William Dorset Fellowes
circa 1842-circa1845
89
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Joseph Wright of Derby letter to Daniel Daulby
1789 July 15
90
Britton, John, 1771–1857
John Britton archive,
1839-1851
91
Brangwyn, Frank, Sir, 1867–1956
Frank Brangwyn archive,
ca. 1900-1920
92
Nash, Paul, 1889–1946
Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley
1909-1951, bulk 1909-1912
93
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
John Ruskin letters to John Henry Le Keux,
1854-1860
94
Sandby, Thomas, 1723–1798
Thomas Sandby letter to Sir William Chambers
1769 September
95
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1828-1829]
96
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999
Paul and Rachel Mellon dealer files,
1933-1997