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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Galt, John, 1779–1839
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Hamilton, James, 1948–
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Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
1
Baird, William, active 1898
1
Berry, Claude
1
Bindman, David, 1940–
1
Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
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Bond, Barbara A.
1
Bowness, Sophie
1
Cahill, James
1
Chapman, John Stewart
1
Cohen, David, 1955–
1
Cole, Roger, 1922–
1
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
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Day, William, 1823–1908
1
De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
1
De Heriz, Patrick
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Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
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Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
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Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
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21st century
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biographie
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Great Britain.
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England.
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Artists.
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Artists -- England -- Biography.
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Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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United States.
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Women artists.
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783.
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Chris Beetles Limited -- Catalogs.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
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Illustration of books -- Great Britain -- 21st century -- Catalogs.
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England
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Groebritannien
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Brown, Lancelot, 1716–1783
3
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
3
Bartram, William, 1739–1823
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915
2
Hockney, David, born 1937
2
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
2
William, Prince, Duke of Cambridge, 1982–
2
Aitchison, Craigie, 1926–2009
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Angas, George French
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Angas, George French, 1822–1886
1
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766–1815
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Bartram, John, 1699–1777
1
Bawden, Edward, 1903–1989
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Beckford, William (Schriftsteller)
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
1
Behan, John, 1938–
1
Bonington, Richard Parkes
1
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828
1
Broome, Myrtle, 1888–1978
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
2
Yale Center for British Art, BAC: Copy 1 is a gift of Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carol Popplin.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gill Gregory.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.
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Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
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Garner, Valerie
Prince William
1998
2
Greenwood, Jeremy
Edward Bawden
2005
3
Hayley, William, 1745–1820
Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq.
1823
4
Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
5
Galt, John, 1779–1839
The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq.
1832, c1830
6
Galt, John, 1779–1839
The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, Esq.
1820
7
Day, William, 1823–1908
William Day's reminiscences of the turf
1886
8
De Heriz, Patrick
La belle O'Morphi
[1947]
9
Haste, Cate, 1945–
Craigie Aitchison
2014
10
Webb, Valerie
Edward Stott (1855-1918)
2018
11
Seebohm, Caroline
Edwina Sandys art
2011
12
Powers, Alan, 1955–
Enid Marx
2018
13
Chapman, John Stewart
Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh
1975
14
The inking woman
2018
15
Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Savage messiah
1931
16
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
On being an artist
[2015]
17
Miller, Lee, 1907–1977
Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain
2018
18
William Morris
2021
19
McGregor, Alasdair, 1954–
A forger's progress
2014
20
Bowness, Sophie
Barbara Hepworth
2017
21
Bindman, David, 1940–
Hogarth
2021
22
Scarisbrick, Diana
Elihu Yale
2014
23
Lambirth, Andrew, 1959–
Rose Hilton
2009
24
Hinde, Thomas, 1926–2014
Capability Brown
1986
25
Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857–1941
The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer
2015
26
Young, Lee
An artist in Abydos
2021
27
Strong, Roy
The English icon
1969
28
Peacock, Carlos
Richard Parkes Bonington
1980
29
Pre-Raphaelite papers
[1984]
30
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Gainsborough
2017
31
Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Isaac Julien
[2013]
32
Hopkins, Owen, 1984–
From the shadows
2015
33
Parkin, Sophie
Colony Room Club, 1948-2008
[2013]
34
Uglow, Jennifer S.
Mr. Lear
2018
35
Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
The Farington diary
[1923-28]
36
Smart, Tom
Peter Clapham Sheppard
[2018]
37
Modern Scottish women
2015
38
Oakley, Maroussia
The book and periodical illustrations of Arthur Hughes
2016
39
Kenneth Clark
[2014]
40
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
41
Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871–1937
The life of John Sell Cotman
1982
42
Cahill, James
David Hockney
2021
43
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Constable
2022
44
The illustrators
[2016]
45
Russell, James
Ravilious
2015
46
Llewellyn, Sacha
Winifred Knights, 1899-1947
2016
47
Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891–1959
Stanley Spencer
2016
48
Artists who make books
2017
49
Holloway, Jennifer
Against the odds
2014
50
Lesser, Wendy
You say to brick
2017
51
The Flower Hunter
2014
52
Shanes, Eric
Young Mr Turner
[2016]
53
Bond, Barbara A.
Great escapes
2015
54
In praise of Paul Mellon
[1987]
55
Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944–
The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557
2013
56
Frazier, Adrian Woods
John Behan
2015
57
Howard, Clare (Archaeologist)
The church and chapel interiors of John Loughborough Pearson
[2016]
58
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon
1876
59
Sammons, Sandra Wallus
John and William Bartram
2015
60
Garlick, Kenneth, 1916–2009
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1954
61
George the faithful
[1936]
62
Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Capability Brown and his landscape gardens
2016
63
Wootton, David, 1963–
The illustrators
[2018?]
64
Wakeling, Edward
The photographs of Lewis Carroll
2015
65
Turner, Sarah A. M.
Percy Moore Turner
2018
66
De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
1953
67
Gregory, Gill
The studio
2015
68
Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Tracey Emin
2020
69
Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
John Ruskin
[1985]-[2000]
70
Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Benjamin Smith Barton
2007
71
Berry, Claude
Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966
2002
72
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
73
Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Capability Brown
2013
74
Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970–
Nicholas Hilliard
2019
75
Baird, William, active 1898
John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter
1895
76
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
The Pre-Raphaelite circle
2013
77
Montfort, Patricia de
Louise Jopling
2017
78
Hicks, David, 1929–1998
David Hicks scrapbooks
2017
79
Thuillier, Rosalind
Graham Sutherland
2015
80
Kitaj, R. B
R.B. Kitaj
[2017]
81
Goodden, Henrietta
Robin Darwin
2015
82
Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Thomas Gainsborough
2016
83
Cole, Roger, 1922–
Burning to speak
1978
84
Lees-Milne, James
William Beckford
1979
85
Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
Peter Shelton
[1998]
86
Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Holbein's "Ambassadors"
1900
87
King, James, 1942–
Roland Penrose
[2016]
88
Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011)
[2012]
89
Hockney, David, born 1937
David Hockney
2021
90
Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects
2009
91
Hunt, Tristram, 1974–
The radical potter
2021
92
Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–
Roots and wings
[2021]
93
Schama, Simon
The face of Britain
[2016]
94
Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Holbein
1985
95
Lewis, Adrian, 1951–
The drawings of Roger Hilton
2017
96
The illustrators
2015
97
Tregenza, John
George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886
1980
98
Malcomson, A. P. W.
Nathaniel Clements 1705-77
[2015]
99
Norrington, Ruth
The household of Sir Thomas More
1985
100
Orr, Clarissa Campbell
Mrs Delany
[2019]