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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
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
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
1
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
1
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
1
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
1
Clifford, Edward, 1844–1907
1
Constable, John, 1776–1837
1
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
1
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
1
Field, William, 1854–1932
1
Fisher, John, 1788–1832
1
Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
1
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
1
Garnett-Botfield, Helen Stella Alexandrina, 1887–1962
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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43
Available
9
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Archives & Manuscripts
39
Books
10
Prints
2
Dissertations & Theses
1
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unknown
52
Period
19th century
27
20th century
18
18th century
10
16th century
1
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correspondence
52
ink drawing
9
photograph
7
engraving
5
private press books (publishing)
5
ephemera
4
graphite drawing
4
photograph album
4
scrapbook
4
watercolor
4
wood engraving
4
albumen print
3
commonplace book
3
photomechanical print
3
seal
3
blueprint
2
clippings (information artifacts)
2
gelatin silver print
2
manuscript magazine
2
portrait photograph
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Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
5
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519 -- Correspondence.
3
Artists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.
2
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547. Correspondence.
2
British Red Cross Society.
2
Constable, John, 1776–1837 -- Correspondence.
2
Cooke, W.B. -- ALS from Thomas Hood.
2
Cooke, W.B. -- Publisher.
2
Drawing -- Technique.
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 -- Correspondence.
2
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862 -- Correspondence.
2
Hood, Thomas -- ALS to W.B.Cooke.
2
Humanists -- Italy -- Correspondence.
2
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268–1559 -- Sources.
2
Military nursing -- Great Britain.
2
Nurses -- Great Britain.
2
Papal States -- Nobility -- Correspondence.
2
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
2
Satire, English.
2
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851 -- Correspondence.
2
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19th century
4
16th century
3
18th century
2
20th century
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
13
England
7
London
4
Italy
3
India
2
Papal States
2
British Isles
1
China
1
Cyprus
1
East Bergholt (England)
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Europe
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France
1
Greece
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Herculaneum (Extinct city)
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İzmir (Turkey)
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Japan
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Kolkata (India)
1
Marlborough, Wiltshire
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Naples (Italy)
1
Oxford
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Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547
3
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
3
Constable, John, 1776–1837
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
2
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851
2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
2
Abbott, Anthony, fl. 1838
1
American Eclipse (Race horse), 1814–1847
1
Andras, Catherine, 1775–1860
1
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
1
Attwell, Mabel Lucie, 1879–1964
1
Baldeschi Eugeni, Alessandro, conte
1
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743–1825
1
Biggin, George, 1760–1803
1
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
1
Bruce, Rose, 1728–1806
1
Butler family
1
Butler, Mary, approximately 1740–1819
1
Cartwright, Edmund, 1743–1823
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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
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
4
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, Paul Mellon Collection
1
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English
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French
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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
Field, William, 1854–1932
William Field scrapbook
1895
5
Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital"
1837
6
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760–1846
Letter from Thomas Clarkson to Thomas Middleditch
1842?
7
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874–1962
Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta
1921
8
Lunardi, Vincent, 1759–1806
Admission ticket for the balloon ascension of Vincenzo Lunardi on May 13, 1785
1785
9
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
10
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letters to his sister Mrs. Mary Gibbon,
1777-1781
11
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Messer Pietro mio
1985
12
Taylor, W. B., fl. 1854
Letter to Charles Taylor, with watercolor Union Jack
1854 March 31
13
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878–1957
Paul Oppé letters to Janet Camp Troxell,
1950-1957
14
Royle, Amy Mabel Fanshawe, 1863–1951
Eaton Mascott alphabet
circa 1894?-1918
15
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
16
Fullbrook, Edward, active 1824–1839
Letter from Edward Fullbrook to an unidentified recipient
1836 December 28
17
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841–1922
153 letters from W.H. Hudson
1923
18
Clifford, Edward, 1844–1907
Edward Clifford scrapbooks
circa 1870-circa 1925
19
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Harriet & Mary
1944
20
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
21
Bruce, Robert, 1782–
Robert Bruce letter concerning the wax sculpture of his mother, Rose Bruce
1807
22
Hunikin, Ch. L
Ch. L. Hunikin letter to "My Dear Mary" of Castelton near Newport
1814 June 14
23
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Shaw-Ede
1942
24
Le Capelain, John, 1814?-1848
John Le Capelain letter to J.J. Gabousel
1841 May 2
25
Pleasonton, John H.
John H. Pleasonton letter to his father, 1823 June 13
1823 June 13
26
Angear, Ethel Beatrice, 1877–1949
Ethel Beatrice Angear archive
1891-1923 (bulk 1914-1918)
27
Caldecote Journal
1854-1855
28
Garnett-Botfield, Helen Stella Alexandrina, 1887–1962
Alexandrina Garnett-Botfield album of the Aston Hall Auxiliary Military Hospital
1918
29
Art notices
1883-1927
30
Pegasus Club (England)
Pegasus
1900 January-1901 March
31
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1834]
32
Riley, Bridget, born 1931
Letter from Bridget Riley to Rose Gerlach, 1964 September 15
1964 September 15
33
Letter ordering a camera obscura for Count Alessandro Baldeschi Eugeni
Florence?,
34
Wicksted, Charles, 1796–1870
Charles Wicksted commonplace book
1833-circa 1870
35
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
The prettiest love letters in the world
1987
36
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780
Part of a tour in Greece, & other papers by SR
1750-1778
37
James I, King of England, 1566–1625
Letter from James I to an unidentified recipient
circa 1590?
38
Letters concerning paintings in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1828-1841
39
Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
Letters to Edmund Cartwright
September 20, 1797 and February 16, 1798
40
Fisher, John, 1788–1832
Archdeacon John Fisher letters to John Constable
1822-1830
41
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822
Shelley at Oxford
1944
42
Letter to Anthony Abbott on the mixing and use of paint colors
1838 October 4
43
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Letters to his son
1973
44
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768–1849
Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld
1953
45
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures
1797-1803
46
Love, William, engineer
Patent application for a minesweeping device
1914-1915
47
Sandby, Thomas, 1723–1798
Thomas Sandby letter to Sir William Chambers
1769 September
48
Fellowes, W. D. (William Dorset)
Family records collected by William Dorset Fellowes
circa 1842-circa1845
49
Brewer, Mary, 1796 or 1797–
Photography
ca. 1853-1857
50
A. & S. Henry & Co
A. & S. Henry & Co. letter to I. Edmondson & Co., requesting samples of woolen goods
1846 February 6
51
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Joseph Wright of Derby letter to Daniel Daulby
1789 July 15
52
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Eight implemental heads in colours
[1828-1829]