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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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21,330
Reference Library
175
Creator
Christie & Manson
126
Christie, James, 1773–1831
118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
111
Christie, Manson & Woods
77
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
70
Britton, John, 1771–1857
56
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
52
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
50
Clark, Thomas A
50
Dilnot, John
50
Rocque, John, -1762
49
Phillips, H., -1840
42
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
41
Bush, Tracey
39
Sackett, Colin
37
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
33
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
32
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
31
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
31
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
30
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Unknown
1,015
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
21,330
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
175
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
20,183
Free to Use
1,147
Image Available
Unavailable
19,522
Available
1,808
New Additions
2024-2025
75
Classification
Books
17,085
Archives & Manuscripts
777
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
755
Prints
734
Maps & Atlas (printed)
483
Music (printed)
248
Periodicals
188
Articles & Chapters
174
Drawings & Watercolors
166
Postcards
131
Photographs
129
Visual Materials
73
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
44
Videos
7
Musical Sound Recordings
6
Paintings
3
Computer Files
1
Dissertations & Theses
1
Kits
1
PrintsVisual Materials
1
Creator Gender
unknown
21,326
female
4
Period
19th century
11,788
20th century
4,078
18th century
2,765
21st century
902
17th century
547
15th century
326
16th century
202
14th century
2
13th century
1
Materials & Techniques
ceramic (material)
23
wove paper
22
throwing (pottery technique)
11
wood
10
wood engraving (process)
10
daguerreotype (process)
9
molding (forming)
9
watercolor (paint)
8
ink
6
albumen process
5
paper
5
engraving (action)
4
graphite (color)
4
silk (textile)
4
graphite (mineral)
3
lithography
3
transfer printing
3
weaving
3
cardboard
2
glue
2
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Materials & Techniques
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Work Type
wood engraving
1,883
engraving
1,493
lithograph
1,341
ephemera
1,231
aquatint
1,152
artists' book
898
auction catalog
780
chromolithograph
692
etching
622
map
465
woodcut
460
armorial bookplates (provenance)
396
recreation
339
accordion fold format (binding)
338
photograph
336
advertisement
317
private press books (publishing)
315
exhibition catalog
307
photomechanical print
306
watercolor
302
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Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
856
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
673
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
665
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
605
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
457
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
443
London Institution -- Ownership.
348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph.
343
Incunabula in Yale Library.
300
Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
295
Drawing -- Technique.
276
Grief.
271
Painting, British -- Catalogs.
271
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
250
Women in natural history.
239
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
237
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
226
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
197
Satire, English.
193
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
184
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Subject Period
19th century
1,560
20th century
514
18th century
335
17th century
98
16th century
63
21st century
35
15th century
27
11th century
7
15th and 16th centuries
4
12th century
3
Alfred, 871-899
3
13th century
2
14th century
2
17th-18th centuries
2
Description and travel
2
Elizabeth II
2
Silurian
2
To 500
2
To 510 B.C
2
16th century,
1
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Associated Places
Great Britain
4,653
England
2,020
London
1,205
London (England)
529
France
316
United States
245
Italy
230
Scotland
195
Edinburgh (Scotland)
191
India
173
Ireland
131
Europe
130
Edinburgh
128
Wales
127
Oxford (England)
96
Germany
90
Waltham Saint Lawrence
76
Switzerland
75
Egypt
68
Spain
68
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
89
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
85
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926–
41
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
39
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
39
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
37
Jesus Christ
32
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852
32
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
30
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
30
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
29
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910
26
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
25
Raphael, 1483–1520
24
Shirley Smith, Richard
24
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
22
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830
21
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952
21
Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793
20
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936
20
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Exhibition History
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
138
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
118
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
117
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
78
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
64
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
54
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
39
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
25
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
24
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
23
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
23
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
19
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
15
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
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)
13
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
8
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
8
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)
8
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
8
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson
221
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
175
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
164
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
136
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
133
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
117
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
97
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
79
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
73
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
51
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
46
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.
44
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
38
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Duncan and Lisa Robinson
33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
32
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
32
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
27
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
26
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Language
English
18,495
French
552
Latin
400
German
272
Italian
136
Dutch
51
No linguistic content
51
Undetermined
34
Spanish
25
English, Middle (1100-1500)
10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
10
Swedish
10
Welsh
10
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
8
Multiple languages
7
Japanese
6
Efik
5
Portuguese
5
Russian
5
Danish
4
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2501
Twining, Elizabeth, 1805–1889
The plant world
1866
2502
Dayes, Edward, 1763–1804
The works of the late Edward Dayes
1805
2503
Robson, William
Grammigraphia;
1799
2504
Some brief particulars regarding the arrival of the Marquis of Douglas
1844
2505
Cupples, Ann Jane Dunn Douglas
Katty Lester, a book for girls
[1873]
2506
Ackermann and Co
Ackermann and Compy.'s Catalogue of prints,
[between 1845 and 1847]
2507
Geikie, Walter, 1795–1837
Studies from Nature,
1831
2508
Plan of the building Great Exhibition 1851
[1851]
2509
Memoires sur Madame la duchesse de St.-Leu, ex-reine de Hollande
1832
2510
Peckham, Harry
A tour through Holland, and the Netherlands
1793
2511
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
A supplement to the fifth edition of Collins's Peerage of England
1784
2512
Rocque, John, -1762
A plan of the garden & house of the Rt. Honourable ye Earl of Lincoln, at Weybridge in the county of Surry
1737
2513
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
A treatise on painting
1802
2514
Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837
Designs for public improvements in London and Westminster
MDCCCXXVII [1827]
2515
Psalmi penitentiales
Finished on the 15th day of November, 1894]
2516
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
The analysis of the hunting field
1846 [i.e. 1847]
2517
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832
Faust
MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
2518
Dyson, Will, 1880–1938
Kultur cartoons
1915
2519
Vyner, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1804–1879
Notitia venatica
1847
2520
The art-treasures examiner
[1857]
2521
Metairie Jockey Club of the State of Louisiana
Rules and regulations of the Metairie Jockey Club
1860
2522
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Hillingdon Hall
1888
2523
Griffith, J. K
A general Cheltenham guide upon an entirely new plan
[1815]
2524
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
The amateur's assistant, or, A series of instructions in sketching from nature
1826
2525
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
A descriptive catalogue of Coade's artificial stone manufactory at King's Arms Stairs, Narrow-wall Lambeth
MDCCLXXIV [1784]
2526
Cooke, Edward William, 1811–1880
Views of the old and new London Bridges
1833
2527
The court and city register for the year 1751 ;
[1751?]
2528
Exhibition of the works of the old masters
1870
2529
Panoramic views of Brighton from the sea
[ca. 1840]
2530
Gruber, J. G. (Johann Gottfried), 1774–1851
Sitten, Gebräuche, und Kleidung der Russen
[1801-1803]
2531
Hort, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1803 or 4–1857
The rock
1839
2532
Kapp, David
David Kapp's new panorama of the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne =
[ca. 1860?]
2533
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899
Aunt Louisa's London favourite
[18--]
2534
Costume of Yorkshire illustrated by a series of forty engravings
1814
2535
Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
The comic history of the Russian war
[1857]
2536
Evans, Arthur Benoni, 1781–1854
The cutter
1808
2537
Hay, Andrew Leith, 1785–1862
The castellated architecture of Aberdeeshire
[1849]
2538
Williams, Thomas, b. 1815
Fiji and the Fijians
1858
2539
Mathews, Charles, 1776–1835
The London Mathews
[1826?]
2540
View of Madras
[s.d.]
2541
Manwaring, Robert
The carpenter's compleat guide to the whole system of gothic railing
1765
2542
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
A description of the maritime parts of France
MDCCLXI [1761]
2543
Newman's Superfine water colours
18--]
2544
Panvinio, Onofrio, 1530–1568
Amplissimi ornatissimiq[ue] triumphi
[n.d.]
2545
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Rudiments of landscape
1813
2546
Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Vignola revived
MDCCLXI [1761]
2547
Grüner, Ludwig, 1801–1882
... Specimens of ornamental art,
1850
2548
Greenwell, George Clementson, 1821–1900
A practical treatise on mine engineering
1855
2549
Rodd, Horatio, fl. 1810–1859
A catalogue of authentic portraits
1824
2550
Domestic, literary, and village sketches
[1823]
2551
[Scenes from the life of Edward VII]
[1905]
2552
Ellis, William, 1747–1810
The campagna of London, or, Views in the different parishes within the circumference of twenty-five miles from that metropolis
[1791-1793]
2553
Harris, John, 1667?-1719
History of Kent
1719
2554
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Domestic miseries
[1848]
2555
Ostervald, J. F. (Jean Frédéric), 1773–1850
Picturesque tour from Geneva to Milan, by way of the Simplon
1820
2556
La Salle, Achille Étienne Gigault de, 1772–1855
Select views in Sicily
1825
2557
Old Army Surgeon
Economy of the hands and feet, fingers and toes
1830
2558
Medailles de la revolution Francaise
s.d.]
2559
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
A map of the British and French dominions in North America
Febry 13th, 1755
2560
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ******
1752
2561
New hints, by an old professor, on the art of miniature painting
1837
2562
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Costumes of the members of the University of Oxford
[1840?]
2563
Price, Lake
Interiors and exteriors in Venice
1843
2564
Rolfe, Edmund, b. 1810
Views of Dover
[1837]
2565
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759–1828
Tour to Hafod, in Cardiganshire
1810
2566
Stretton, Henry
Original sketches, drawn and engraved on stone
[1844?]
2567
Lavallée, Joseph, 1747–1816
Reis door de departementen van Frankryk;
1795-96
2568
Kennett, White, 1660–1728
Parochial antiquities attempted in the history of Ambrosden,
1695
2569
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782
Studies and designs,
1811
2570
A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland
1816
2571
Hemingway, Joseph
History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time;
1831
2572
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
A collection of tracts on wet-docks for the port of London,
1797
2573
Fables in action
1820
2574
A new dioramic game of the overland route to India
[185-?]
2575
The game of human life
[ca. 1820]
2576
Dolce, Lodovico, 1508–1568
Dialogo della pittura
1735
2577
Large models made with cork
[1809]
2578
Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795–1885
A review of the professional life of Sir John Soane, archt ..
1837
2579
Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837–1882
Sketches in Australia and the adjacent islands,
[1849]
2580
McNevin, J
Souvenir of the Great Exhibition,
[1851]
2581
Scourfield, John Henry, Sir, Bart., 1808–1876
Lyrics, and Philippics,
1859
2582
Le Blon, J. C., 1667–1741
Coloritto, or, The harmony of colouring in painting
[1725]
2583
The history of Paris, from the earliest period to the present day
1827 [i. e. 1831?]
2584
Duncan, James, Scotch bookseller
Duncan's itinerary of Scotland;
1823
2585
Ramsay, Allan, 1686–1758
The gentle shepherd,
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
2586
The principles of drawing, design, and engraving;
1800
2587
Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Notitia parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales ...
1715-1750
2588
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Of queens' gardens
1902
2589
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
Description of a view of the city of Damascus, and the surrounding country
1841
2590
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Notes by Mr. Ruskin on Samuel Prout and William Hunt
1879]
2591
Mace, Sandford
The Citadel of Plymouth
1737
2592
Martel, P. (Peter), 1701–1761
A plan of Geneva, with the adjacent parts = Plan de Geneve, avec ses environs
1743
2593
Magniac, Hollingworth, 1786–1867
The collection of works of art, pictures, furniture, silver, china, ... at Tredegar House, Monmouthshire
1916
2594
Brooke, James, Sir, 1803–1868
Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan
1848
2595
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645–1708
Hieroglyphica, of, Merkbeelden der oude volkeren
MDCCXXXV [1735]
2596
Sancho, Ignatius, 1729–1780
Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African ...
1782
2597
Chapman, Robert
The topographical picture of Glasgow in its ancient and modern state
1820
2598
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896
Millais's Illustrations
[1865?]
2599
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople
1818
2600
Clerk, John, 1728–1812
Series of etchings chiefly of views in Scotland
1855
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