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Rare Books and Manuscripts 158

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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795 21
Foster, Tony, born 1946 6
Dadd, Frank, 1851–1929 4
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881 3
Bonnell, Mandy 2
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908 2
A.J.K.H. 1
Alexander, Mary 1
Alpenny, Joseph Samuel, 1787–1858 1
Angel, Marie 1
Angus, Sarah 1
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889 1
Birch, G 1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary 1
Bulstrode, Christopher Stone, 1818–1894 1
Bunsen, Frances Waddington, Baroness, 1791–1876 1
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844 1
Byng, Cecilia Georgiana, approximately 1802–1881 1
Churchyard, Harriet, 1836–1926 1
Coates, Sarah, 1810–1840 1
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872 1
Cowen, Martin 1
Crompton-Stansfield, Mary Evelyn Maude, 1862–1946 1
Davison, William, 1798–1870 1
Davy, Henry, active 1829 1
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751–1832 1
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747 1
Dilnot, John 1
Dudley, Robert, active 1858–1893 1
Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853 1

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 158

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 129
Free to Use 29

Image Available

unavailable 108
available 50

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 1

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 158

Collective Title

Period

19th century 109
18th century 32
20th century 13
21st century 9
15th century 1
17th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 16
drawings 6
watercolors 6
watercolor (paint) 4
graphite (color) 3
graphite (mineral) 3
ink 3
graphite 2
charcoal (material) 1
crayons (drawing material) 1
vellum (parchment) 1

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

watercolor 84
sketchbook 77
ink drawing 62
graphite drawing 59
botanical illustration 27
travel sketche 26
landscape drawing 23
gouache 21
wash drawing 16
ornithological illustration 15
view 12
portrait 11
caricature 10
drawings (visual works) 10
scientific illustration 10
albums (books) 8
drawing 7
diarie 6
pattern book 6
children's art 5
humorous picture 5
marine drawing 5
sketche 5
engraving 4
copies (derivative objects) 3
landscape 3
periodical illustration 3
photograph 3
plan 3
satires (visual works) 3

Genre

Subject Terms

Women in natural history. 26
Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793. 20
Flowers -- Pictorial works. 20
Butterflies -- Pictorial works. 14
Birds -- Pictorial works. 13
Insects -- Pictorial works. 10
Shells -- Pictorial works. 8
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain. 7
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Description and travel. 6
English wit and humor, Pictorial. 6
Needlework -- Patterns. 6
Rafting (Sports) -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico). 6
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 5
Lace and lace making -- Great Britain. 5
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. 4
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- 19th century. 4
Devon (England) -- Pictorial works. 4
Grand tours (Education) 4
Graphic (London, England) -- Illustrations. 4
Italy -- Pictorial works. 4
Ruins. 4
Ships in art. 4
South African War, 1899–1902 -- Pictorial works. 4
Waterfronts. 4
White work embroidery -- Patterns. 4
Brambles -- Pictorial works. 3
Broderie anglaise. 3
Castles & palaces. 3
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881. 3
Drawing -- Study and teaching. 3

Subject Period

19th century 14
18th century 2
20th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 43
England 7
Italy 7
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) 6
Switzerland 6
Devon (England) 5
France 5
Germany 4
Kent (England) 4
Yorkshire (England) 4
Belgium 3
Hampshire (England) 3
Bristol (England) 2
Broadstairs (England) 2
Cornwall (England : County) 2
Dover (England) 2
Durham (England : County) 2
Hertfordshire (England) 2
Highlands (Scotland) 2
Land's End (England) 2
London 2
Lynmouth (England) 2
Naples (Italy) 2
Ramsgate (England) 2
Rome (Italy) 2
Scotland 2
Surrey (England) 2
Wales 2
Alban Hills (Italy) 1
Alnwick (England) 1

Associated People

Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793 20
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881 3
Angus, Sarah 1
Asche, Oscar, 1871–1936 1
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768–1840 1
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732–1799 1
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889 1
Benson, Frank R. (Frank Robert), 1858–1939 1
Bevan, A. W. R 1
Blackburne, Anna, 1740–1793 1
Blackburne, John, 1754–1833 1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary 1
Brock, D. W. E. (David William Errington), 1907– 1
Brookes, Samuel, d. 1838 or 9 1
Bunsen, Frances Waddington, Baroness, 1791–1876. Views of Rome and the environs 1
Bunyan, John, 1628–1688 1
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796 1
Byng, Cecilia Georgiana, approximately 1802–1881 1
Carmichael, J. W., 1799 or 1800–1868 1
Coates family 1
Coates, Rachel, 1806–1852 1
Coates, Sarah, 1810–1840 1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834 1
Collingwood, Daniel, 1634?-1681 1
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872 1
Cosby, John Hamilton Wilder, 1821 or 1822–1883 1
Cubitt, Joseph 1
Davison, William, 1798–1870 1
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751–1832 1
Deane, Arthur 1

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 10
Tony Foster : Watercolor Diaries, Cornwall to Colorado (Yale Center for British Art, May 30, 2019-August 25, 2019) 6
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 1

Credit Line

22608220660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22610384190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22621126910008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22624624960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624636880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624677380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624678200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624698420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624700200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22624748570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013) 1
22626329650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22627322450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22627336400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22627555480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22628575700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22628719060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22631833240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22631855210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22643554050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22645524580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22646919600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22649721700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22651540150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22651991410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22652025480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22661961490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22664135260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22666169160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell 1
22674001520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22674300290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1

Language

English 158

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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
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Album of watercolors of British birds

circa 1820-circa 1830
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

?Subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), male, and eggs, with strawberry (Fragaria... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877

Album of maritime and figure sketches

1849 September 4-1850 April 22
Accessible in the Study Room
Illustrations to the novels of Walter Scott

1830s?
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), with raspberry (Rubus... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) from the natural history cabinet of Anna... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava), male, with Marsh gentian (Gentiana... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Grand tour watercolor albums

1793-1842
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
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

?House wren (Troglodytes aedon) and eggs, with a specimen from the... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881

North & south Devonshire

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), from the natural history... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus L.), with tiphiid wasp... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747

Drawings of houses and gardens

1736-1743
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
[Sketchbook of London actors and opera singers in character]

[1903]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Gyfford, E

Original drawings for Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes

[not after 1807]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stapley, W. B.

Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley

1855-1870
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) female, and eggs, with Cowberry... [Read more]

circa 1768
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
Lucknow from the Gomti

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
Jervis, Anne Sarah Paget, 1801–1886

Drawings of England and India

1817-1852
Accessible in the Study Room
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks

1805-1822
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and eggs, with bramble (Rubus L.)... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889

Scraps collected from all books, at all times, in all places and on all subjects

circa 1841-1872
Accessible in the Study Room
Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853

Sketchbooks

1826-1851
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) and eggs, with red currant (Ribes cf.... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Reid, Jane Caroline, 1797–1834

Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata

between 1821 and 1831
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

?White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus), with bramble (Rubus... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
A.J.K.H.

Album of comic sketches

1869-1873
Accessible in the Study Room
Moser, Robert James, 1828–1908

Drawings of London street life

1888
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
Drawing folder with watercolors

ca. 1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Drawings by wards of the Adult Orphan Institution, London

1831
Accessible in the Study Room
Trollope, Robert, -1686

Osbourne's Fort

1676
Accessible in the Study Room
Album of drawings

ca. 1900-1903
Accessible in the Study Room
Bunsen, Frances Waddington, Baroness, 1791–1876

Sketchbook of views of Rome and its environs

1817-1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Double flower cultivar of Wood anemone (Anemone cf. nemorosa L.... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Portraits of Cape Town figures

ca. 1828
Accessible in the Study Room
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854

Sketchbook

circa 1830
Accessible in the Study Room
Yelloly, Sophia Mary, 1811–1840

Yelloly family watercolor albums

1827-1839
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

cf. Soldanella L., with holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) and (Lepidoptera... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

European robin (Erithacus rubecula) and eggs, with wild strawberry (Fragaria... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795

Caesalpinoid legume, possibly a species of Caesalpinia L.; Blackburn's Earth... [Read more]

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?

Sketchbook

circa 1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800

Original watercolors for A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of... [Read more]

1789

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