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Rare Books and Manuscripts 18,524
Reference Library 172

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Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 111
Christie, Manson & Woods 77
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Britton, John, 1771–1857 56
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 52
Dilnot, John 50
Rocque, John, -1762 47
Clark, Thomas A 42
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 41
Bush, Tracey 39
Sackett, Colin 37
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 36
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 32
Douglas, Helen, 1952– 31
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 30
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 30
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888 29
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 28
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861 28
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 28
Morris, William, 1834–1896 28
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 27
King, Ronald, 1932– 26
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 26
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864 24
Combe, William, 1742–1823 22
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825 22

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Accessible in the Study Room 18,524

Accessible in the Reference Library 172

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 17,502
Free to Use 1,022

Image Available

unavailable 16,874
available 1,650

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 48

Classification

Books 14,719
Archives & Manuscripts 733
Prints 655
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 637
Maps & Atlas (printed) 378
Music (printed) 225
Periodicals 176
Articles & Chapters 164
Drawings & Watercolors 158
Postcards 137
Photographs 126
Visual Materials 70
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 35
Musical Sound Recordings 5
Videos 5
Paintings 2
Computer Files 1
Dissertations & Theses 1
Kits 1
PrintsVisual Materials 1

Collective Title

Period

19th century 11,065
20th century 3,953
18th century 2,376
21st century 883
17th century 331
16th century 64
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 1,823
engraving 1,256
lithograph 1,222
ephemera 1,202
aquatint 1,100
artists' book 880
auction catalog 757
chromolithograph 648
etching 545
map 384
armorial bookplates (provenance) 352
photograph 331
private press books (publishing) 314
advertisement 307
accordion fold format (binding) 302
exhibition catalog 300
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
postcard 176
game 175

Genre

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 834
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 672
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 664
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 600
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 442
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 426
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 285
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 269
Drawing -- Technique. 268
Grief. 261
Women in natural history. 238
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 224
Satire, English. 193
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 188
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 179
Drawing books -- Specimens. 175
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 160
Fox hunting. 157
Horses. 147
Voyages and travels. 146
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 136
Death. 134
Middle Hill Press -- Publisher. 133
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 130
English wit and humor, Pictorial. 126
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 123
Drawing -- Study and teaching. 119

Subject Period

19th century 1,470
20th century 495
18th century 307
17th century 79
16th century 44
21st century 33
15th century 17
11th century 7
Alfred, 871-899 3
14th century 2
15th and 16th centuries 2
17th-18th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
Silurian 2
12th century 1
13th century 1
17th cenury 1
18h century 1
18th centtury 1
19h century 1
19th Century 1
21th century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
6th century 1
Civil War, 43-31 B.C 1
Republic, 265-30 B.C 1
Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D 1
To 332 B. C 1
To 332 B.C 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 4,522
England 1,991
London 1,201
London (England) 511
United States 234
Edinburgh (Scotland) 188
Scotland 183
France 182
Italy 180
India 165
Edinburgh 127
Ireland 127
Wales 125
Europe 110
Oxford (England) 90
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Egypt 65
Spain 58
Brighton (England) 56
China 56
Switzerland 56
Oxford 54
Bath (England) 53
Cambridge (England) 53
Glasgow (Scotland) 53
Germany 52
Liverpool (England) 52
Paris (France) 52
Turkey 51
Dublin (Ireland) 50

Associated People

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 87
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 82
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 40
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 39
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 37
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 34
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852 32
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 30
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 29
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 29
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832 25
Shirley Smith, Richard 23
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861 22
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910 22
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830 21
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952 21
Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793 20
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936 20
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 20
Jesus Christ 19
Raphael, 1483–1520 19
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 19
Blake, William, 1757–1827 17
Britton, John, 1771–1857 17
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792, 17
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 16
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 16
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 14
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 14
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 13

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) 24
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

The anatomy of the horse

1766
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
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
Taylor, John, 1808–1887

Letters on India

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814

The high mettled racer

MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Accessible in the Study Room
Eben, Frederic, Baron

The Swedish army

[1808]
Accessible in the Study Room
Thou are all I wish

mid-19th century
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, William, 1769–1837

To George Dance Esquire R.A., architect to the city of London, &c., these... [Read more]

January 1st, 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
John Sanderson & Co

Splendid show of spring fashions

[1890?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

Cygnea cantio

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
Constable & Company (Firm : London, England)

Constable & Compy

[approximately 1850]
Accessible in the Study Room
Carrick, Robert, active 1853–1895

The blue lights

[1853?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)

The Regency. Ramsgate

1953
Accessible in the Study Room
Cook, Jno. (Shoemaker)

Bill for the repair of boots and shoes

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
The mirror of truth

Jany. 1st, 1811
Accessible in the Study Room
The compleat drawing-master;

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Heine, Wilhelm, 1827–1885

Graphic scenes in the Japan Expedition

1856
Accessible in the Study Room
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House

[1846?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ball, Mary Anne

A selection of maps

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Laurie's new and entertaining game of the golden goose

[1831]
Accessible in the Study Room
Townend, Thomas

Billhead of Thomas Townend, London hatter, for hats purchased by Charles... [Read more]

1849
Accessible in the Study Room
To my love

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bodington, John, -1727

Reward notice for recovery of a silver quart tankard

1727
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Bath Hotel (Bournemouth, England)

[Lunch and dinner menu for the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, August... [Read more]

1955
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A gentleman's park dissected

18--]
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Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

The meet

[1880]
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Taylor Institution. Library

The Taylor Building and the University Galleries

June 19th, 1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815

[Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]

[1790]
Accessible in the Study Room
Sherwill, Walter Stanhope

Illustrations of the mode of preparing the Indian opium intended for the Chinese... [Read more]

1851
Accessible in the Study Room
Parry, William, fl. 1825

The last days of Lord Byron

MDCCCXXV [1825]
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840

Modern London

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Fortunio & his seven gifted servants

1846
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Yours unalterably

[1875?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899

Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book

[1870?]
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In affectionate remembrance of James Page

1885

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