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Reference Library 37,643
Rare Books and Manuscripts 18,525

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Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 144
John Murray (Firm) 143
Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 114
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 90
Blake, William, 1757–1827 79
Arts Council of Great Britain 71
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Tate Gallery 67
Ward, Lock & Co 67
Fine Art Society 66
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 66
Britton, John, 1771–1857 58
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 54
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 54
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 53
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Dilnot, John 50
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 50
Rocque, John, -1762 49
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 46
National Trust (Great Britain) 45
Hockney, David, born 1937 44

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Accessible in the Reference Library 37,643
Accessible in the Study Room 18,525

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 54,974
Free to Use 1,022

Image Available

unavailable 54,346
available 1,650

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 226

Classification

Books 49,684
Articles & Chapters 1,547
Periodicals 933
Archives & Manuscripts 733
Prints 656
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 637
Maps & Atlas (printed) 401
Videos 298
Music (printed) 227
Drawings & Watercolors 158
Postcards 137
Photographs 127
Visual Materials 70
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 35
Dissertations & Theses 23
Computer Files 18
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Paintings 3
Kits 1
PrintsVisual Materials 1

Collective Title

Period

20th century 26,224
21st century 14,089
19th century 12,867
18th century 2,459
17th century 346
16th century 68
15th century 39

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 27
ceramic (material) 12
daguerreotype (process) 9
molding (forming) 9
albumen process 6
drawings 6
ink 6
watercolor (paint) 6
watercolors 6
engraving (action) 4
graphite (color) 4
graphite (mineral) 3
silk (textile) 3
transfer printing 3
weaving 3
graphite 2
lithography 2
photographic paper 2
sterling silver 2
vellum (parchment) 2
casting (process) 1
charcoal (material) 1
chromolithography 1
collage 1
collage (technique) 1
crayons (drawing material) 1
die cutting 1
engraving (printing process) 1
felt (textile) 1
gelatin silver process 1

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,824
engraving 1,256
exhibition catalog 1,244
lithograph 1,223
ephemera 1,203
aquatint 1,100
auction catalog 1,082
artists' book 886
chromolithograph 649
history 604
etching 545
catalog 421
map 395
armorial bookplates (provenance) 357
photograph 333
private press books (publishing) 314
advertisement 310
accordion fold format (binding) 302
recreation 298
photomechanical print 295
drawing book 292
watercolor 286
botanical illustration 262
ink drawing 259
memorial card 258
cut-paper work 248
chromoxylograph 245
sheet music 205
memorials (commemorative) 196
steel engraving 193

Genre

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,041
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 854
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 839
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 737
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 683
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 666
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 600
Rare books -- Catalogs. 586
Great Britain. 576
Art, British -- Catalogs. 492
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 463
Furniture -- Catalogs. 434
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 378
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Auction catalogs. 343
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 335
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 321
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 285
Drawing -- Technique. 277
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 275
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 271
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 268
Art -- Catalogs. 261
Grief. 261
England. 255
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 240
Women in natural history. 238
Silver -- Catalogs. 230
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226

Subject Period

19th century 3,759
20th century 3,550
18th century 1,416
17th century 635
21st century 331
16th century 250
15th century 48
17th-18th centuries 21
11th century 14
15th and 16th centuries 13
12th century 6
14th century 6
Geschichte 4
Alfred, 871-899 3
13th century 2
58 B.C.-511 A.D 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D 2
Silurian 2
To 400 2
To 500 2
10e siècle 1
16th-17th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18h century 1
18th centtury 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 9,395
England 6,049
London 1,929
London (England) 1,267
Scotland 694
United States 608
Ireland 478
Europe 448
Italy 352
India 340
France 313
Wales 291
Australia 235
Edinburgh (Scotland) 209
Edinburgh 186
England London 139
Oxford (England) 123
Middle East 115
Canada 110
Germany 102
Egypt 97
Kent (England) 93
Switzerland 88
Thames River (England) 87
Bath (England) 85
Devon (England) 85
Yorkshire (England) 85
Oxford 83
Spain 83
New York (State) 82

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 385
Blake, William, 1757–1827 364
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 197
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 177
Constable, John, 1776–1837 168
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 152
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 136
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 135
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 133
Morris, William, 1834–1896 132
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 125
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 119
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 106
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 104
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 98
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 84
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 83
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 82
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 76
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 75
Hockney, David, born 1937 74
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 68
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 67
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 62
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 61
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 57
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 57
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 55
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 53
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 52

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 127
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 115
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 106
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 73
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 54
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 41
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 29
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 25
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 23
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 21
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 19
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019) 15
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 15
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 14
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 14
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 11
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 8
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 7
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 6
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 6
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 6
Tony Foster : Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado (Yale Center for British Art, May 30, 2019-August 25, 2019) 6
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 5
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 4
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 4
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 4
“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) 4
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 3
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25) 3
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 3

Credit Line

22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 31
22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22960469820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980 6
22651991360008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 5
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 5
22809639860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22653444540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711723710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 4
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711752060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22781117950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22826544530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22960470130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman 4
22651990110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3

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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition... [Read more]

[1802]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1853
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Constable, John, 1776–1837

Letter to John Thomas Smith

1797, between January 16 and March 23
Accessible in the Study Room
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Hogarth moralized

1831
Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Alphabet

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

No. [blank] of Liber studiorum

[1807-1819]
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
The Weald, Sutton Valence

[approximately 1960]
Accessible in the Study Room
[The Weald, Sutton Valence]

[appoximately 1960]
Accessible in the Study Room
Fenton, Ellen, born ca. 1813

Ellen Fenton diaries

1854-1862
Accessible in the Study Room
Rowe, Miss.

Rowe collection of botanical specimens,

1861-1862
Accessible in the Study Room
[Photograph of a milkman and wagon.]

[1915]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)

Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera,

1912-1914
Accessible in the Study Room
Rorer, Abigail.

Bufo the First

2005
Accessible in the Study Room
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989

Clare Leighton collection,

1949-1953
Accessible in the Study Room
Boys Clothing House (London, England)

The Boys Clothing House, A.B. Joseph & Co.

[approximately 1864?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847

Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria

1796-1803
Accessible in the Study Room
Seville, William, 1797–1866

Extraordinary talent, for a short time only ... you may have a correct likeness ...... [Read more]

[approximately 1830]
Accessible in the Study Room
Rio, Antonio del

Description of the ruins of an ancient city

1822
Accessible in the Study Room
A Merry Christmas to you

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), with hazel (Corylus avellana L.), oak... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845

Miss Linwood's Gallery of pictures in worsted

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Accept these flowers thus gracefully combined ... thus in unison let our loves... [Read more]

mid-19th century
Accessible in the Study Room
Wallis's new railway game, or, Tour through England and Wales

[approximately 1844]
Accessible in the Study Room
Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857

To Godfrey Wentworth Junr. Esqre. this series of sketches of the interior &... [Read more]

Sept. 1, 1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731

New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane,

1749
Accessible in the Study Room
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779

[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales,... [Read more]

1726-42
Accessible in the Study Room
Officer's photograph album of British military hospitals and camps

1917-1918
Accessible in the Study Room
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]
Accessible in the Study Room
Watson (Clothier)

Bill for clothes, notions, and fabrics, 1801

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900

Vere Foster's Copy books

[approximately 1897?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 1778–1823

Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and... [Read more]

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Harper & Brothers

Harper's Magazine for September (Vol. 77, No. 460), published Aug. 1888

1888
Accessible in the Study Room
May the first fruits of your undertakings be timely and bountiful

[1890?]
Accessible in the Study Room
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Costumes of India

[1830]
Accessible in the Study Room
Emergency bulletin

[1926]
Accessible in the Study Room
Blue beard

[1861]
Accessible in the Study Room
First lessons in knitting for home or school

[approximately 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840

Oriental scenery

1795-1807 [that is, 1808]
Accessible in the Study Room
The artist's vade mecum

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
Brookes's Menagerie (London, England)

Original Menagerie, New Road, near Fitzroy Square, London

between 1803 and 1813?
Accessible in the Study Room
Boucher, François, 1703–1770

Nouveau livre de vases

Oct. 22, 1771
Accessible in the Study Room
[Greeting card with movable flower]

[1850?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856

Going to a fight

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Jas. Middleton, portable writing desk and dressing box manufacturer

[approximately 1830?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Crimson topaz hummingbird (Topaza pella), male, with Cyclamen (cf.... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
English, Joseph, 1798 or 1799–1871

Account book of Joseph English, undertaker

1829-1837

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