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Rare Books and Manuscripts 93
Reference Library 54

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Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 10
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 8
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011 7
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 6
Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880 4
Leech, John, 1817–1864 4
Wilson, T. C 4
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956 3
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827 3
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 3
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850 3
Heath, William, 1795–1840 3
Carretta, Vincent 2
Clayton, Tim 2
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883 2
Grego, Joseph, 1843–1908 2
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 2
Lisle, Joe 2
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886 2
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843 2
Wardroper, John 2
Wynn Jones, Michael 2
Baker, Kenneth, 1934– 1
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867 1
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786 1
Bowers, G. (Georgina) 1
Brewer, John, 1947– 1
Britton, John, 1771–1857 1
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815–1882 1
Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902 1

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Accessible in the Study Room 93
Accessible in the Reference Library 54

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 143
Free to Use 2

Image Available

unavailable 140
available 5

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Books 145

Collective Title

Period

19th century 88
20th century 45
21st century 13

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

aquatint 17
wood engraving 12
lithograph 11
caricature 10
etching 8
soft-ground etching 7
satire 6
caricatures and cartoon 5
engraving 4
chromolithograph 3
history 3
publishers' advertisement 3
satires (visual works) 3
armorial bookplates (provenance) 2
chromoxylograph 2
crie 2
ephemera 2
hand-colored illustration 2
photomechanical print 2
publisher's advertisement 2
advertisement 1
anastatic printing 1
comic book 1
criticism, interpretation, etc 1
dictionarie 1
dust jacket 1
graphic novel 1
humor 1
humorous comic 1
juvenile literature 1

Genre

Subject Terms

English wit and humor, Pictorial. 145

Satire, English. 63
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. 38
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 17
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Caricatures and cartoons. 10
Caricatures and cartoons -- Social aspects. 9
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons. 8
Caricatures and cartoons. 6
Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance. 6
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878. 5
Lithography -- Specimens -- [ca. 1830]. 5
M'Lean, Thomas -- Publisher. 5
Marriage -- Caricatures and cartoons. 5
Alvey -- Printer. 4
Caricatures and cartoons -- England. 4
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- 19th century. 4
Dixon, Fitz Eugene -- Bookplate. 4
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Caricatures and cartoons. 4
Great Britain. 4
Horsemanship -- Caricatures and cartoons. 4
Political satire, English. 4
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827. 4
Fashion -- Great Britain. 3
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons. 3
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. 3
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor. 3
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works. 3
Hunting -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. 3
Maidment, Brian -- Donor. 3
McLean, Thos. -- Publisher. 3

Subject Period

19th century 35
18th century 14
17th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 75
England 12
London (England) 12
Europe 2
Aristrocracy Great Britain 1
Biarritz (France) 1
Cheshire 1
Glasgow 1
Italy 1
Pyrenees 1
Sicily (Italy) 1
United States 1

Associated People

Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 5
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 4
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 4
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011 3
Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896 2
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820 2
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 2
Keene, Charles, 1823–1891 2
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 2
May, Phil, 1864–1903 2
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 2
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 2
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956 1
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786 1
Carysfort, John Joshua Proby, Earl of, 1823–1858 1
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1982– 1
Chaplin, Florence, 1855–1881 1
Combe, William, 1742–1823 1
Downman, John, 1750–1824 1
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883 1
Frankland, Robert, Sir, 1784–1849 1
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690 1
Leech, John, 1817–1864 1
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519 1
Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854–1904 1
Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836 1
Thelwell, Norman, 1923– 1
Townshend, George Townshend, Marquis, 1724–1807 1
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676–1745 1

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 4

Credit Line

22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22616334680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22633706380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22634450310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22634488330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22634510590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22635496060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22641564300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642045340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642062040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642062050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642064820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22649632370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22667192550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22675775410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22676309500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 1
22681258310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961 1
22693936810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22694507780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22695368590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22695375810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22701611650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22701611670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22703833190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22707746540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross 1
22709723390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22709754370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 1
22709754390008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 1
22709754410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22714658040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 145

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Accessible in the Study Room
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809

Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions

[1800]
Accessible in the Study Room
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956

Rossetti and his circle

[1922]
Accessible in the Study Room
Dean & Son

[Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with... [Read more]

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Leech, John, 1817–1864

Portraits of children of the mobility

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
O'Connell, David

Kate Middleton in her own words

2011
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Lear in Sicily

1938
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

The tragical life and death of Caius Marius, Esqre., late Her Majesty's... [Read more]

1983]
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Accessible in the Study Room
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson

1860
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Du Maurier, Gerald, Sir, 1873–1934

English society

1897
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Leech, John, 1817–1864

Pictures of life and character

[between 1872 and 1890?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
High life and low life

1979
Accessible in the Reference Library
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011

Searle's cats

1987
Image not yet available

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Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

Sporting notions

[1831-1833]
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Progress of intemperance

ca. 1830]
Image not yet available

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Carretta, Vincent

George III and the satirists from Hogarth to Byron

c1990
Image not yet available

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Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting

[1816]
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Miller, John, 1946 July 5–

Religion in the popular prints, 1600-1832

c1986
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders

1820
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Brewer, John, 1947–

The common people and politics, 1750-1790s

c1985
Accessible in the Reference Library
Maidment, Brian

Robert Seymour and nineteenth century print culture

2021
Image not yet available

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Leech, John, 1817–1864

The rising generation

[1848]
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Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878

The bachelor's own book

[1844]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Thelwell, Norman, 1923–

The definitive Thelwell

[2009]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Leigh, Percival, 1813–1889

The fiddle faddle fashion book and beau monde à la française

[1840]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Hogarth in context

c1996
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lisle, Joe

[The essayists]

[1828-1830]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878

Illustrations of time

[1827]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman

1824
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850

My Lord Mayor's album, or, Cockney sports

[1835]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011

Ronald Searle's Big fat cat book

1982
Accessible in the Reference Library
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011

Ronald Searle's non-sexist dictionary

1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

The Townshend album

1974
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Britton, John, 1771–1857

The pleasures of human life

1807
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Wynn Jones, Michael

The cartoon history of Britain

1973
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Heath, William, 1795–1840

Fashion and folly

[1822]
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Accessible in the Study Room
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827

Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are

1825
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Accessible in the Study Room
Quiz

Crinoline

[185-?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011

The predatory bite of the steel nib

2005
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956

Fifty caricatures

MCMXIII [1913]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878

[Collection of prints]

18--]
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Accessible in the Study Room
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

Involuntary thoughts

1823-1824
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson

1854
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Gillray observed

1999
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Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854–1904

The foreign tour of the Misses Brown, Jones, and Robinson

[approximately 1877]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877

The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist

[1873]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827

Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax drawings

1997
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Feaver, William

George Cruikshank

1974
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Leech, John, 1817–1864

Pictures of life and character

1863-1869
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Wynn Jones, Michael

A cartoon history of the monarchy

1978
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880

Characters at the west end of the town

1825

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