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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Alexander, David (David S.)
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Bindman, David, 1940–
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Pointon, Marcia R
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Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
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Black, Jeremy, 1955–
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Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
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Craske, Matthew
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Engel, Laura
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Hallett, Mark, 1965–
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Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Langford, Paul
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Leppert, Richard D
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Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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England.
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603–1714.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
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Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797
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Canaletto, 1697–1768
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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Yale Center for British Art, Div copy 1 Richard DeLong Hymnal Collection;
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Croome Park.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellie Hughes.
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Coaching days of England
1966
2
Thacker, Christopher
Building towers, forming gardens
2002
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802
2002
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough
1962
5
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
6
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress
[1995?]
7
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
8
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001
Alexander Pope
1985
9
Colley, Linda
Britons
1992
10
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997
The roots of romanticism
1999
11
Hughes, Eleanor
Brave tars and glorious commanders
2016
12
Filtenborg, Troels, 1951–
Between formula and freestyle
2014
13
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
14
Luxury in the eighteenth century
2003
15
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Colorful impressions
c2003
16
White, Jerry, 1949–
London in the eighteenth century
2012
17
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
18
Bryant, Christopher
A new light on John Singleton Copley's portraits of Major General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Samuel Adams
2014?
19
Batten, Charles
Pleasurable instruction
c1978
20
Musson, Jeremy
Robert Adam
2017
21
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
22
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
The XVIIIth century in London
1920
23
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
24
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
25
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
26
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
27
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
28
The history of the book in the West
2010
29
Jennings, Judi, 1947–
Gender, religion, and radicalism in the long eighteenth century
c2006
30
Vaughan, Alden T., 1929–
Transatlantic encounters
2006
31
A Lady of fashion
1987
32
Steward, James Christen
The new child
1995
33
Eglin, John, 1962–
Venice transfigured
2001
34
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
35
Paradise lost
2014
36
Lowell Libson Ltd
Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
2023
37
Regency costume
[1978?]
38
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
39
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
40
Great Irish households
2022
41
Enlightenment
c2003
42
Ernst & Young
Capturing Canada
[2014]
43
Irish fine art in the early modern period
2016
44
1776
2019
45
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
46
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
47
Brookes, Patricia, 1933–
The Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, 1760-1801
1989
48
Brander, Michael
The Georgian gentleman
1973
49
Byrd, Max
London transformed
1978
50
Leppert, Richard D
Music and image
1988
51
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
52
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
53
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
54
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
55
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
56
British prints
[1989]
57
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
58
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
59
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
60
Downes, Kerry
St George's, Bloomsbury
2008
61
Lenihan, Liam
The writings of James Barry and the genre of history painting, 1775-1809
[2014]
62
Vose Galleries of Boston
An important group of 18th and 19th century English paintings
1961
63
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
64
Makdisi, Saree
William Blake and the impossible history of the 1790s
2003
65
"My highest pleasures"
2007
66
Clayton, Tim
The English print, 1688-1802
©1997
67
Eighteenth century English books
1976
68
Hotson, Leslie, 1897–1992
Shakespeare by Hilliard
1977
69
Whitworth Art Gallery
'Upon a painted ocean'
[1982]
70
Markham, Sarah
John Loveday of Caversham, 1711-1789
1984
71
London Museum
Men's costume, 1750-1800
1973
72
Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)
Queer gardens
73
A treasure house in Farmington
1999
74
Smith, Greg
The emergence of the professional watercolourist
c2002
75
Table settings
c2010
76
Sharp, Rosalie
China to light up a house
[2015-2016]
77
Dare to know
2022
78
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
The commerce of cartography
2005
79
Buckridge, Steeve O
The language of dress
2004
80
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
81
Peltz, Lucy
Facing the text
[2017]
82
Taylor, David Francis
The politics of parody
[2018]
83
Jourdain, Margaret
Some eighteenth-century picture frames
84
Studies in eighteenth-century culture
1971-
85
The lustrous trade
c2000
86
Brett, Vanessa
Bertrand's toyshop in Bath
2014
87
Exhibition of early English watercolours
1979
88
Myrone, Martin
Bodybuilding
2005
89
Notorious muse
c2003
90
Painting Ireland
2006
91
Enlightening the British
2003
92
Shefrin, Jill
Such constant affectionate care
2003
93
Guest, Harriet
Empire, barbarism, and civilisation
2007
94
Brigstocke, Hugh
Refocusing the Grand Tour
[2010]
95
Wonderwall
[2009]
96
Landscapes of retrospection
c1999
97
Freeman, Rosemary
English emblem books
1948, t.p. 1970
98
Pinto, John A
Speaking ruins
2012
99
Trading paintings and painters' materials 1550-1800
2019
100
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Painting in England 1700-1850
1963
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