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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Skinner and Co. (London, England)
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Stott, Rebecca
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Tobin, Beth Fowkes
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Wildgoose, Jane
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Books
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21st century
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18th century
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20th century
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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auction catalogue
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engraving
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shellwork
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Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715–1785.
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788.
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Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715–1785 -- Friends and associates.
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Art objects -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
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Art objects -- Private collections.
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Auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
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Booksellers' catalogs -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
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Cabinets of curiosities -- Exhibitions.
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Cabinets of curiosities.
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Collectors and collecting -- England -- Exhibitions.
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Collectors and collecting -- England.
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788 -- Friends and associates.
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Flowers in art.
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Gift books.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Higgs, Wm. Simonds -- Bookplate.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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Installations (Art)
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Mr. Skinner and Co. -- Publisher.
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Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Early works to 1800.
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England
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Great Britain
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London
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Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715–1785
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Wildgoose, Jane
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Ryskamp, Charles
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
1
Wildgoose, Jane,
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels
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Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with a gift from Mark and Adam Eaker, Yale BA 2007, in memory of Charles A. Ryskamp, Yale PhD 1956
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Wildgoose, Jane
[Shellflower]
2010
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Skinner and Co. (London, England)
A catalogue of the Portland Museum
[1786]
3
Curious specimens
2010
4
Promiscuous assemblage, friendship & the order of things
2009
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
The Duchess of Portland's museum,
1936
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Stott, Rebecca
Duchess of curiosities
2006
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Tobin, Beth Fowkes
The Duchess's shells
2014