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Reference Library 1,166
Rare Books and Manuscripts 290
Archives 102

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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821 105
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 12
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 9
Boswell, James, 1740–1795 8
Paulson, Ronald 6
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 5
Pointon, Marcia R 5
Alexander, David (David S.) 4
Alexander, William, 1767–1816 4
Bindman, David, 1940– 4
Boydell, John, 1719–1804 4
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978– 4
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 4
Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822 4
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002 4
Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944– 4
Storff, Paul Auguste de 4
Black, Jeremy, 1955– 3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983 3
Craske, Matthew 3
Engel, Laura 3
Hallett, Mark, 1965– 3
Hauptman, William, born 1945 3
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 3
Laird, Mark 3
Langford, Paul 3
Leppert, Richard D 3
Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001 3
Mason, George Henry 3
Mowl, Tim 3

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Accessible in the Reference Library 1,166
Accessible in the Study Room 392

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 1,556

Image Available

unavailable 1,556

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 7

Classification

Books 1,313
Archives and Manuscripts 102
Articles & Chapters 37
Archives & Manuscripts 33
Videos 16
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 13
Computer Files 12
Periodicals 12
Maps & Atlas (printed) 9
Prints 7
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 1

Collective Title

Period

20th century 616
21st century 563
18th century 158
19th century 114
17th century 19
16th century 1

Materials & Techniques

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Width [cm]

Work Type

history 56
engraving 41
exhibition catalog 29
map 22
ink drawing 21
wood engraving 21
watercolor 20
aquatint 19
armorial bookplates (provenance) 16
etching 14
private press books (publishing) 14
biographie 12
criticism, interpretation, etc 11
biography 9
catalog 9
commonplace book 9
poem 9
graphite drawing 7
mezzotint 7
annotations (provenance) 6
drawing book 6
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 6
account book 5
botanical illustration 5
diarie 5
historical fiction 5
portrait 5
art 4
auction catalog 4
cut-paper work 4

Genre

Subject Terms

Authors, English 102
First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797 102
Gout 102
Medicine 102
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 102
Physicians 102
Politics and government 102
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. 43
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. 39
Great Britain. 37
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 33
England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. 27
English poetry -- 18th century. 27
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 23
Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 23
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 22
Art, British -- 18th century. 21
English wit and humor, Pictorial. 18
London (England) -- History -- 18th century. 18
Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions. 18
England. 17
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. 17
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603–1714. 17
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. 17
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref) 17
Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- England -- Exhibitions. 17
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography. 15
English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- Bibliography. 15
Aesthetics, British -- 18th century. 14
English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- History and criticism. 13

Subject Period

18th century 1,556

1789-1820 102
19th century 2
16th century 1
17th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 614
England 312
London (England) 48
France 43
London 38
Europe 37
United States 32
Ireland 25
Scotland 24
Italy 20
India 16
Russia 10
Virginia 8
Canada 7
Rome (Italy) 7
Switzerland 7
Dublin (Ireland) 6
England London 6
Great Britain America 6
North America 5
Paris (France) 5
China 4
Groebritannien 4
Guernsey 4
Isle of Wight (England) 4
New England 4
Rome 4
West Indies 4
Bath (England) 3
Germany 3

Associated People

Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 101
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 101
Piozzi, Gabriele Mario, 1740-1809 40
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 23
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 20
Blake, William, 1757–1827 19
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 16
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 16
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788 11
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 11
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792 8
Garrick, David, 1717–1779 8
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797 8
Boswell, James, 1740–1795 7
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744 7
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805 6
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 6
Romney, George, 1734–1802 6
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 6
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745 6
Beckford, William, 1760–1844 5
Piozzi, John Salusbury 5
Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797 4
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796 4
Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728–1799 4
Flaxman, John, 1755–1826 4
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820 4
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 4
Hunter, William, 1718–1783 4
Mostyn, Cecilia Margaretta Thrale, 1777-1857 4

Exhibition History

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 2
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 2
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 2
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 1

Credit Line

22738165790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22770966170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22606801030008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22609529050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22609529070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22609529090008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22610299640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22611222480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22612473440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22612473470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22612478060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22614573550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22615981610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22618319950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22618901400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22621907450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971 1
22622588400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22623832360008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22631618130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22631655790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22633019180008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22634529810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22634852450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22634852470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22635805510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22636032680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22636795070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637306530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642827130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22643012690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 1,374
French 25
German 21
Italian 7
Dutch 4
Latin 4
Icelandic 1
Multiple languages 1
Norwegian 1
Polish 1
Undetermined 1

Archival Collections

Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray 102

Archival Collection Level

object 101
collection 1

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Romney, George, 1734–1802

Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773

1773
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Romney, George, 1734–1802

Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802

2002
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Gainsborough

2002
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough

1962
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Prints published by W. Hogarth

1762
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

William Hogarth's A harlot's progress

[1995?]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth

1824
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Anecdotes of William Hogarth,

[1970?]
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Turner's modern world

2020
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821

Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray

1795-1816
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A harpy and his brothers

[2023]
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Exhibition of 18th and 19th century English watercolours from 15th June until... [Read more]

1965
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great,

1894
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821

Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray,

1795, April 16-1816, September 10
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Wentworth Castle Conference (2010)

Wentworth Castle and Georgian political gardening

2012
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Wilton, Andrew

British watercolours, 1750-1880

2011
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Grey, Booth, 1740–1802

Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey

1790s
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The eighteenth century woman

c1982
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The English masters

2006
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The English masters

[2006]
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The English masters

[2006]
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Sense & sensation

c2003
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Burton, John Hill, 1809–1881

A history of the reign of Queen Anne

1880
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William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism

1988
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Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876–1962

England under the Stuarts

1928
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Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805–1875

History of England from the peace of Utrecht to the peace of Versailles,... [Read more]

1851-54 [v.1, 1853]
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The English masters

[2006]
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Takeda, Sharon Sadako.

Fashioning fashion

2010
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Nussbaum, Felicity

Rival queens

c2010
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Phillips, H., -1840

A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes)

[1823]
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Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours

1984
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Bath, Michael

Speaking pictures

1994
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George Morland

2015
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The secret life of things

c2007
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Yale University. Art Gallery

The critique of reason

[2015]
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Spevack, Marvin

The Harvard concordance to Shakespeare

1973
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Toil and plenty

1993]
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British watercolors

[1987]
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An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age

1999
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Check-list or brief catalogue of the library of Henry E. Huntington (English... [Read more]

1919
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Eighteenth-century art worlds

2019
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625

Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde

1622
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Payne, Christiana

The agricultural landscape in English painting, c.1785-1885
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Georgian Group (London, England). Symposium (1994)

The picturesque in late Georgian England

c1994
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Strobel, Heidi A., 1968–

The artistic matronage of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818)

c2011
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Atlas of early American history

1976
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Labat, maître d'armes

The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword

MDCCXXXV [1735]
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Freed, Eugenie R., 1935–

"A portion of his life"

c1994
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Lowth, Robert, 1761 or 1762–1822

Billesdon Coplow, hunt

[1800]
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A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800

1997
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Coutu, Joan Michèle, 1964–

Persuasion and propaganda

c2006
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Pargellis, Stanley, 1898–1968

Bibliography of British history;

1951
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Mitchell, Elizabeth Kathleen, 1971–

Death by Hogarth

c1999
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Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842

The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion

1823
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Vanns, Michael A

Witness to change

2003
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Lloyd, Stephen, 1961–

The intimate portrait

2008
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Arthur Ackermann & Son

Pleasures and pastimes, bosoms and breeches

1991
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The blind spot

[2017]
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The great period of British watercolour from Turner to Burne-Jones

c2004
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Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–

"Lonely as a cloud"

2010
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Bryant, Julius

Magnificent marble statues

2013
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Black, Jeremy, 1955–

Italy and the grand tour

2003
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Fitzgerald, Alison

"Seen with great delight"

[2025]
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821

Supper at Beaucaire

MCMXLV [1945]
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Tarleton, Lieutenant-General (Banastre), 1754–1833

A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the southern provinces of North... [Read more]

MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Spence, Cathryn

Thomas Robins the Elder (1716-1770)

[2006]
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Watt, Tessa

Cheap print and popular piety, 1550-1640

1996, c1991
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Nicholson, Robin, 1966–

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the making of a myth

2002
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Hagstrum, Jean H

The sister arts;

[1968, c1958]
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De Gomme, Bernard, 1620–1685

Plans for fortification and harbor works at Dunkirk

1661-1662?
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Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870

A Tale of Two Cities

1964
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Laird, Mark

The dominion of flowers

[2024]
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Land, nation and culture, 1740-1840

2004
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784

The patriot

1774
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Of the moment

2006
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Fairest isle

1989]
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Riggs, Timothy A., 1942–

Witnesses to an age in transformation

2006
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Figures of empire

2014
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Hauptman, William

La Suisse sublime

c1991
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Christie, Manson & Woods

The collector

[2020]
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Massing, Ann

Painting restoration before La Restauration

2012
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A catalogue of letters and other historical documents exhibited in the... [Read more]

1903
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Travel and tourism in Britain, 1700-1914

©2014
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Parry, Graham

The Golden Age restor'd

c1981
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Davis & Long Company

English watercolors

[1980]
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Lippincott, Louise, 1953–

Arthur Pond and the London art world, 1700-1760

1981
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Craven, Wayne

Colonial American portraiture

1986
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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795–1881

The French revolution

1900
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745

The letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford

1935
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Simpson, Miss

Sketchbook of drawings and designs by Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's... [Read more]

circa 1795
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Graziani, Irene

William Keable, Joseph Nollekens e James Barry

[2020]
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Eighteenth and nineteenth century British drawings and watercolours

1996
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Sharp, Richard, 1953–

The engraved record of the Jacobite movement

1996
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Camden, Carroll, 1903–

Restoration and eighteenth-century literature;

[1963]
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Aymonino, Adriano

Paper Palaces

[2013]
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Agents of space

2016
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Visualizing slavery & British culture in the eighteenth century

2014
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Fairman, Elisabeth R

Pleasures and pastimes

1990
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McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899–

Studies in Shakespeare, bibliography, and theater

1969
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Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942

Thomas Gainsborough

2016

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