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Reference Library 39,194
Rare Books and Manuscripts 21,122
Prints and Drawings 9,999
Archives 8,030
Frames 838
Paintings and Sculpture 610

Creator

Unknown artist 2,415
Forbes, James, 1749–1819 810
Unknown framemaker 794
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 527
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 422
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 392
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989 346
The, Paragon Press 343
Shirley Smith, Richard 306
Hoyland, Francis, born 1930 271
Romney, George, 1734–1802 253
Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 206
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 206
Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto), 1878–1972 177
Rich, Townsend, 1909–1998 164
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 162
Sotheby's (Firm) 159
Victoria and Albert Museum 153
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 151
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 145
John Murray (Firm) 143
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 135
Childers, Michael, born 1944 134
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 130
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 127
Christie & Manson 126
Selkirk, Neil, born 1947 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 39,194
Accessible in the Study Room 39,140
Not on view 578
On view 43

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 79,621

Image Available

unavailable 70,985
available 8,636

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 120

Classification

Books 52,714
Archives and Manuscripts 9,041
Prints 5,505
Photographs 2,690
Drawings & Watercolors 2,060
Articles & Chapters 1,620
Periodicals 958
Frames 838
Archives & Manuscripts 668
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 655
Maps & Atlas (printed) 458
Paintings 455
Posters 314
Music (printed) 245
Videos 210
Brass Rubbings 163
Sculptures 150
Computer Files 149
Postcards 127
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 95
Visual Materials 66
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 55
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 36
Dissertations & Theses 24
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 10
Musical Sound Recordings 7
Ceramics 6
Nonmusical Sound Recordings 3
Models 2
Kits 1

Collective Title

Photographers Photographed 301
Scenes from the Life of Christ 180
Monumental Brass Rubbings 163
England / Scotland 1960 119
A Voyage Round Great Britain 104
The Life of Christ 89
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 86
Lobbyists 60
Ratcliffe Power Station 57
Snapshots 53
Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner 52
Fifty Etchings 51
Nazraeli Monograph 42
Regeneration 41
The Painter's Pool 37
City Index 36
Venetian Views 34
Teenage Balls 33
London 31
The Queen Victoria Memorial Panels, Calcutta 31
Mother and Child Album 30
This Is Libya 28
The Portfolio, An Artistic Periodical 27
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 26
The Poethlyn Sketchbook 26
Enid Blyton's Old Testament Bible Plates 25
Men Like Me 25
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 22
George Fox His Journal 21
A Rake's Progress 20

Period

20th century 33,750
21st century 15,682
19th century 14,550
18th century 3,145
17th century 508
19th century-20th century 477
15th century 320
16th century 182
18th century-19th century 124
20th century-21st century 40
unknown period 17
17th century-18th century 7
14th century 3
13th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 3,617
gelatin silver process 1,647
photographic paper 1,579
etching (printing process) 1,175
graphite 1,075
laid paper 1,027
wood 811
watercolor 733
gold leaf 685
patinating 547
ink jet printing 524
collage 518
water gilding 495
gouache 469
black ink 464
painting (technique) 440
drypoint 424
compo 418
canvas 364
mixed media 363
oil paint 359
toning (photography) 339
screen printing 313
black chalk 305
pen 259
aquatint 250
gray wash 237
white chalk 235
rubbing 204
brown ink 193

Height [cm]

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Work Type

photograph 2,795
drawing 2,002
wood engraving 1,806
intaglio print 1,725
engraving 1,316
exhibition catalog 1,311
watercolor 1,255
lithograph 1,220
auction catalog 1,097
ephemera 1,091
aquatint 1,036
artists' book 902
frame 838
planographic print 805
chromolithograph 649
history 627
digital print 550
photomechanical print 550
etching 544
relief print 453
painting 448
catalog 432
map 431
woodcut 424
armorial bookplates (provenance) 358
accordion fold format (binding) 326
poster 316
private press books (publishing) 315
recreation 291
drawing book 269

Genre

architectural subject 1,895
portrait 1,803
landscape 1,484
genre subject 1,296
abstract art 1,188
figure study 613
cityscape 547
religious and mythological subject 394
animal art 353
marine art 240
still life 230
sporting art 171
botanical subject 124
historical subject 115
literary theme 105
cartographic material 79
military art 69
anatomical study 2

Subject Terms

Artists 2,124
Art, British 1,999
portrait 1,465
Art museums 1,260
Advertising 1,163
Commercial art 1,163
Design 1,163
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,078
Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Descriptive letters and drawings 1,011
Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Oriental memoirs 1,011
architectural subject 1,001
Art 890
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 858
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 857
Painters 849
Museums and community 840
Public relations 840
genre subject 799
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 747
landscape 687
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 680
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 665
Rare books -- Catalogs. 650
History 642
abstract art 604
frame alteration: no alteration 603
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 601
Great Britain. 582
Architecture, Modern 545
figure study 510

Subject Period

19th century 4,094
20th century 3,605
18th century 1,565
20th Century 1,054
17th century 693
21st century 341
16th century 275
1849-1861 106
1850-1900 106
1789-1820 102
15th century 57
1824-1899 29
17th-18th centuries 25
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 14
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
Silurian 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2

Associated Places

Great Britain 11,861
England 8,145
London 2,757
United States 2,303
Scotland 1,793
London (England) 1,747
Italy 1,505
Wales 1,351
Europe 1,020
United Kingdom 612
France 606
Ireland 495
India 422
Australia 241
Edinburgh (Scotland) 209
Commonwealth countries 200
Venice (Italy) 187
China 185
Edinburgh 185
South Africa 180
Asia 168
England London 165
Germany 165
Mauritius 145
Switzerland 145
Madeira Islands 142
Funchal (Madeira Islands) 141
Swartberg Pass (South Africa) 141
Middle East 135
Egypt 134

Associated People

Yale Center for British Art 2,475
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 1,167
Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. 1,163
Ray, Man, 1890-1976 1,163
East India Company 1,010
Forbes, James, 1749-1819 1,010
Mellon, Paul 710
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 589
Art on the Underground (Program) 476
London Regional Transport (Agency) 476
London Underground Limited 476
Transport for London (Organization) 476
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888 453
Roberts, David, 1796-1864 430
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 430
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 424
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897 414
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903 414
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880 412
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855 412
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860 411
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863 411
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865 411
Etching Club (London, England) 411
Goodall, Edward A. 411
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910 411
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881 411
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 411
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 411
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872 411

Exhibition History

A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 125
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 123
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 97
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 88
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 84
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 80
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 80
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 78
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 77
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 73
20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 63
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 62
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 59
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 51
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 44
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 43
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 39
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-09-16 - 2011-01-02) 36
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 35
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 34
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 34
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15) 31
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 29
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers Galleries, 2011-01-26 - ) 28
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 23
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29) 20
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) 20
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-12 - 2020-12-15) 20
Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) 19
John Walker: The Carter Gift (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 18

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2,571
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 1,332
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 914
Yale Center for British Art 840
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 392
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 372
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 351
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 338
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 193
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972 180
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 175
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 165
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich 163
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 154
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 135
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 123
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 118
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 104
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972, and Theodore C. and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Yale MCP 1964 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 87
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 83
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 78
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 75
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery 68
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 66
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 64
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie 60
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 58
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker 53

Language

English 54,674
French 930
German 650
Latin 383
Italian 272
Dutch 99
Spanish 87
Undetermined 66
Japanese 46
Russian 29
Multiple languages 21
Welsh 19
Swedish 17
Portuguese 16
English, Middle (1100-1500) 10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 9
Polish 9
Danish 8
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 8
Chinese 7
Hebrew 6
Efik 4
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Low German 4
Norwegian 4
Estonian 3
Scots 3
Afrikaans 2
Dakota 2
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 2

Archival Collections

Edward McKnight Kauffer photographic negatives 1,163
James Forbes archive 1,011
Yale Center for British Art Communications and Marketing Department records 838
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith 570
Yale Center for British Art printed materials 531
British transportation ephemera collection 476
Clare Leighton collection 447
Letters to Richard Redgrave 410
John Baskett papers 318
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Publications 257
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence 234
Collection of historic photographs and negatives of the Yale Center for British Art 205
Fred Mallender Collection of British Commonwealth postage stamps 198
Yale Center for British Art Publications 198
Patrick Noon papers 187
"Conserving the Yale Center for British Art" film recordings by Zach Bjork 163
Cathy Courtney collection of artists' books ephemera 148
Collection of Mellon Family and Yale Center for British Art-related Publications 148
Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence 146
Keith Marshall collection of photographs 141
Clayton family papers 125
John McHale archive 116
Edwin Augustus Porcher Collection 106
Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray 102
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant letters to Kenneth Clark and Jane Clark 95
Sam Smith Collection 90
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection 89
Edward Lear archive 73
John Ruskin: Letters to Thomas Goff Lupton 71
Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley 57

Archival Collection Level

object 8,946
collection 95

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On view
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Pulteney Bridge, Bath

between 1916 and 1917
Sir Sidney Nolan, 1917–1992

Apotheosis

1953
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

Dieppe Races

1885
On view
Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959

Winifred Augusta Frank (née Doherty)

1951
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Paul Mellon on Dublin

1933
Maggi Hambling, born 1945

Excavations at the Royal Mint

1985
Roger Fry, 1866–1934

Francis Birrell

ca. 1920
John Wells, 1907–2000

May Month, 1956

1956
Robert Mason, born 1946

Working on Top

1989
Stuart Park, 1862–1933

White Hydrangea

ca. 1890
John Monks, born 1954

Red Interior

1990
John Hoyland, 1934–2011

5.2.67

1967
Nicholas Evans, 1907–2004

Changing of the Shift

1978
Michael Challenger, born 1939

Fort Blox, 1972

1972
John Wells, 1907–2000

No. 3, 1957

1957
Peter Lanyon, 1918–1964

Penwith

1948
John Minton, 1917–1957

Cornish Landscape

1946
Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014

Abstract Landscape (Dark Fir Shoreham II Morning)

ca. 1952
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), 1879–1961

Snow at Charleston

ca. 1950
John Tunnard, 1900–1971

Transformation of Red

1939
Jesse Dale Cast, 1900–1976

Maud

1929
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), 1879–1961

Design for Overmantel

1912 to 1913
Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956

Group of Figures

ca. 1901
unknown artist

Landscape Sketch with Mountains

ca. 1920
Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961

Self-Portrait

ca. 1935
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Study of a Nun

ca. 1915
Gwen John, 1876–1939

Girl Holding a Rose

1915 to 1925
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

May 64 (Kepler)

1964
John Bratby, 1928–1992

Jean on a Step-Ladder in the Kitchen

1956
Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014

Seeding in Winter

1953
Bryan Wynter, 1915–1975

Two Menhirs

ca. 1950
Sir Terry Frost, 1915–2003

Linen Blue and Yellow

1961
Tony Bevan, born 1951

Exposed Arm

1987
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

L'Ospedale Civile, Venice

ca. 1901
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

1915
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

1948
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959

Point-to-Point Meeting

1920
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978

At Eleanor: Vanessa Bell

1915
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942

The Beach at Scheveningen

1887
Edward Brian Seago, 1910–1974

The Red Buoy, Pin Mill

undated

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