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Reference Library 37,366
Rare Books and Manuscripts 18,433

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Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
John Murray (Firm) 143
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 141
Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 114
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 88
Blake, William, 1757–1827 79
Arts Council of Great Britain 70
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Ward, Lock & Co 67
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 66
Fine Art Society 65
Tate Gallery 65
Britton, John, 1771–1857 57
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 54
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 53
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 53
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Dilnot, John 50
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 49
Rocque, John, -1762 49
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48
National Gallery (Great Britain) 45
Hockney, David, born 1937 44
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 43

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Accessible in the Reference Library 37,366
Accessible in the Study Room 18,433

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Under Certain Circumstances 54,607
Free to Use 1,021

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unavailable 53,985
available 1,643

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 235

Classification

Books 49,518
Articles & Chapters 1,541
Periodicals 919
Archives & Manuscripts 664
Prints 655
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 634
Maps & Atlas (printed) 401
Music (printed) 227
Videos 208
Drawings & Watercolors 152
Postcards 129
Photographs 125
Visual Materials 69
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 35
Dissertations & Theses 23
Computer Files 17
Musical Sound Recordings 6
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Paintings 3
Kits 1
PrintsVisual Materials 1

Collective Title

Period

20th century 25,979
21st century 14,020
19th century 12,812
18th century 2,447
17th century 345
16th century 68
15th century 39

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 20
ceramic (material) 12
daguerreotype (process) 9
molding (forming) 9
albumen process 6
ink 6
watercolor (paint) 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
casting (process) 1
charcoal (material) 1
collage 1
collage (technique) 1
crayons (drawing material) 1
felt (textile) 1
gelatin silver process 1
glass 1
ivory (material) 1
laid paper 1
linen (material) 1
paper 1
plywood 1

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,821
engraving 1,252
exhibition catalog 1,251
lithograph 1,223
ephemera 1,192
aquatint 1,099
auction catalog 1,080
artists' book 883
chromolithograph 648
history 609
etching 544
catalog 423
map 394
armorial bookplates (provenance) 357
photograph 317
private press books (publishing) 314
advertisement 309
accordion fold format (binding) 302
recreation 296
photomechanical print 294
drawing book 292
watercolor 271
botanical illustration 259
memorial card 258
ink drawing 249
chromoxylograph 245
cut-paper work 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. 835
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. 583
Great Britain. 577
Art, British -- Catalogs. 493
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 463
Furniture -- Catalogs. 430
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 378
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Auction catalogs. 340
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 326
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 321
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 285
Drawing -- Technique. 276
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 274
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 266
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 266
Grief. 261
England. 259
Art -- Catalogs. 258
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 239
Women in natural history. 237
Silver -- Catalogs. 228
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226

Subject Period

19th century 3,735
20th century 3,513
18th century 1,405
17th century 635
21st century 325
16th century 252
15th century 47
17th-18th centuries 21
11th century 14
15th and 16th centuries 13
12th century 6
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
Alfred, 871-899 3
13th century 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 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
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 9,299
England 6,019
London 1,928
London (England) 1,263
Scotland 692
United States 608
Ireland 477
Europe 447
Italy 352
India 337
France 313
Wales 291
Australia 235
Edinburgh (Scotland) 209
Edinburgh 186
England London 142
Oxford (England) 123
Middle East 115
Canada 111
Germany 101
Egypt 95
Kent (England) 93
Thames River (England) 87
Switzerland 86
Bath (England) 85
Devon (England) 85
New York (State) 84
Yorkshire (England) 84
Oxford 83
Spain 83

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 380
Blake, William, 1757–1827 359
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 196
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 171
Constable, John, 1776–1837 168
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 154
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 140
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 137
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 132
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 131
Morris, William, 1834–1896 130
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 116
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 106
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 104
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 97
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 84
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 82
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 82
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 73
Hockney, David, born 1937 72
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 72
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 66
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 64
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 62
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 61
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 59
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 56
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 56
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 55
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 53

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) 112
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) 23
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
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
“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
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 3
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 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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Accessible in the Study Room
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
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786

London and Westminster improved

MDCCLXVU [1766]
Accessible in the Study Room
Wood, William

A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta

MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
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
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
[Almanac for 1881]

[1880]
Accessible in the Study Room
A Merry Christmas to you

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845

Miss Linwood's Gallery of pictures in worsted

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Frederick & Robert Sparrow & Co.

Front views of F. & R. Sparrow & Co.'s original London genuine tea... [Read more]

[1823]
Accessible in the Study Room
Wharam, Ann

Riding. To the public in general, but more particularly to lovers, learners,... [Read more]

[1790?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Silver palace and the golden poppy, or, The water and fire kings

[between 1837-1840]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bullock, W. (William), 1773?-1849

An account of the family of Laplanders;

[1822?]
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
Prince of Wales Theatre (London, England)

[Program for performance by Marion Hood in Dorothy at the Prince of Wales... [Read more]

[approximately 1887]
Accessible in the Study Room
The Illustrated exhibitor,

[1851]
Accessible in the Study Room
W. Mole (Birmingham, England)

W. Mole, 24 Paradise Street, Birmingham

[1850?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818

Vinters in Kent, a seat of James Whatman Esqr

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
McClure, Louisa Agnes, 1884 or 1885–

The Countess Winifred, and her children

1896
Accessible in the Study Room
Dubourg, Matthew

Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its vicinity

1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Cut-paper basket

Great Britain
Accessible in the Study Room
Chinese landskips

[ca. 1752?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Overton, John, 1640–1708?

[Composite world atlas]

[1686?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645

Iconologia, or, Moral emblems

MDCCIX [1709]
Accessible in the Study Room
Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)

Tender feet

[approximately 1851]
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

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

circa 1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Skipper & East (London, England)

Charles Skipper & East, engravers, printers

[between 1833 and 1877]
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
Skelton, William, 1763–1848

Skelton, copper plate printer

[approximately 1800?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Wallis's new railway game, or, Tour through England and Wales

[approximately 1844]
Accessible in the Study Room
Hill, George, Lord, 1801–1879

Facts from Gweedore

1845 [i.e. 1846]
Accessible in the Study Room
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848

Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities

1836
Accessible in the Study Room
A bit of rock from Boston

[approximately 1900]
Accessible in the Study Room
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

Jug with hunting scenes after George Stubbs

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Postmortem portrait of an infant and mother

1850s
Accessible in the Study Room
Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves... [Read more]

[approximately 1860]
Accessible in the Study Room
Christopher Johnson & Co., creator

Christopher Johnson & Co.

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Day and Martin

The Japanese waterproof polish

approximately 1880
Accessible in the Study Room
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851

A picturesque tour of the English lakes

MDCCCXXI [1821]
Accessible in the Study Room
Probert, John, active 1764

Survey and valuation of the several estates belonging to John Kinchant Esqr.... [Read more]

1765

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