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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Paulson, Ronald
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
5
Pointon, Marcia R
5
Alexander, David (David S.)
4
Bindman, David, 1940–
4
Hargraves, Matthew, 1978–
4
Porter, Roy, 1946–2002
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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944–
4
Black, Jeremy, 1955–
3
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
3
Craske, Matthew
3
Engel, Laura
3
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
3
Hauptman, William, born 1945
3
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
3
Laird, Mark
3
Langford, Paul
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Leppert, Richard D
3
Martz, Louis L. (Louis Lohr), 1913–2001
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20th century
586
21st century
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19th century
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18th century
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history
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exhibition catalog
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Great Britain.
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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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Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
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Art, British -- 18th century.
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Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
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Watercolor painting -- 18th century -- England -- Exhibitions.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- Bibliography.
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Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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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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English wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
14
English literature -- Early modern, 1500–1700 -- History and criticism.
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Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
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Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
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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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Garrick, David, 1717–1779
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Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758–1805
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
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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 Cindy Roman, Lewis Walpole Library.
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane Aptekar Reeve.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
Twenty five drawings by George Romney, 1734-1802
2002
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough
1962
3
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Gainsborough
2002
4
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress
[1995?]
5
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
6
Hughes, Eleanor, 1971–
Vessels of empire
2001
7
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740–1808
The cries of Dublin &c
2003
8
Anglo-Scottish relations from 1603 to 1900
c2005
9
Pointon, Marcia R
Scandalous jewellery at the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte
2009
10
Batten, Charles
Pleasurable instruction
c1978
11
Leppert, Richard D
Music and image
1988
12
Crookshank, Anne
The sublime and the beautiful
c2000
13
Harris, Eileen
The genius of Robert Adam
c2001
14
Prown, Jules David
Art as evidence
c2001
15
Musson, Jeremy
Robert Adam
2017
16
Ephemeral printing in Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
[19??]
17
Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène
The challenge of the sublime
2018
18
Great Irish households
2022
19
Bryant, Christopher
A new light on John Singleton Copley's portraits of Major General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Samuel Adams
2014?
20
Hunt, John Dixon
The figure in the landscape
c1976
21
Eyre-Todd, George, 1862–1937
Scottish poetry of the eighteenth century
1890?
22
Britiske mestere 1730-1850
[1949]
23
Underdown, David
Start of play
c2000
24
Vose Galleries of Boston
An important group of 18th and 19th century English paintings
1961
25
Byrd, Max
London transformed
1978
26
Whitworth Art Gallery
'Upon a painted ocean'
[1982]
27
Markham, Sarah
John Loveday of Caversham, 1711-1789
1984
28
Thomas Gainsborough and the modern woman
2010
29
British prints
[1989]
30
Ignatius Sancho
c1997
31
Ogborn, Miles
Spaces of modernity
c1998
32
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
Angelica Kauffman
c2007
33
Donald, Diana
Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850
2007
34
Jefcoate, Graham
Deutsche Drucker und Buchhändler in London, 1680-1811
[2015]
35
Bush, Douglas, 1896–1983
English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
1962
36
Eighteenth century English books
1976
37
Hotson, Leslie, 1897–1992
Shakespeare by Hilliard
1977
38
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868–1937
The XVIIIth century in London
1920
39
The history of the book in the West
2010
40
Sambrook, James
James Thomson (1700-1748)
1991
41
Clayton, Tim
The English print, 1688-1802
©1997
42
Wood, Marcus
Blind memory
c2000
43
Fairest isle
1989]
44
Brothers, Ann, 1940–
A Studio portrait
c1993
45
Bloom, Harold
The visionary company
1961
46
A Lady of fashion
1987
47
Paston, George, d. 1936
Social caricature in the eighteenth century
[1968]
48
Steward, James Christen
The new child
1995
49
Eglin, John, 1962–
Venice transfigured
2001
50
Jennings, Judi, 1947–
Gender, religion, and radicalism in the long eighteenth century
c2006
51
Paradise lost
2014
52
Essick, Robert N
William Blake's commercial book illustrations
1991
53
Walker, R. J. B. (Richard John Boileau), 1916–
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century miniatures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen
c1991
54
Vaughan, Alden T., 1929–
Transatlantic encounters
2006
55
Maps and prints
c1984
56
Greene, Susan W., 1942–
Wearable prints, 1760-1860
[2014]
57
Lowell Libson Ltd
Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
2023
58
Regency costume
[1978?]
59
Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891–1974
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740
1959
60
Gilman, Ernest B., 1946–
The curious perspective
1978
61
Bermingham, Ann
The ideology of landscape
c1982
62
Fussell, Paul, 1924–2012
The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism;
1965
63
Willis, Sam
Fighting at sea in the eighteenth century
2008
64
Caravaggio to Canaletto
[2013]
65
Laird, Mark
The dominion of flowers
[2024]
66
Werner, Sarah, 1969–
Studying early printed books, 1450-1800
2019
67
Studies in eighteenth-century British art and aesthetics
c1985
68
The lustrous trade
c2000
69
Notorious muse
c2003
70
Myrone, Martin
Bodybuilding
2005
71
Brett, Vanessa
Bertrand's toyshop in Bath
2014
72
Exhibition of early English watercolours
1979
73
Pedley, Mary Sponberg
The commerce of cartography
2005
74
Buckridge, Steeve O
The language of dress
2004
75
Martin, Simon
Poets in the landscape
c2007
76
McConnell, Anita
Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
c2007
77
Gilman, Todd
The theatre career of Thomas Arne
c2013
78
Hallett, Mark, 1965–
Reynolds
[2014]
79
Peltz, Lucy
Facing the text
[2017]
80
Taylor, David Francis
The politics of parody
[2018]
81
Williams, Iolo Aneurin, 1890–1962
The shorter poems of the eighteenth century
1923
82
Joseph Black, 1728-1799
1982
83
Boehn, Max von, 1860–1932
England im Achtzehnten Jahrhunert
1920
84
Mee, Jon
Dangerous enthusiasm
1992
85
Interkulturelle Kommunikation in der europäischen Druckgraphik im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert =
2007
86
Bromwich, David, 1951–
The intellectual life of Edmund Burke
2014
87
Wendorf, Richard
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1996
88
Alexander, David (David S.)
Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s
c1998
89
Uglow, Jennifer S
Dr Johnson, his club and other friends
c1998
90
The Spooner collection of British watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery
2005
91
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Colorful impressions
c2003
92
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Letter and Report on the discoveries at Herculaneum
c2011
93
Postle, Martin
Johan Zoffany
2011
94
'A great and noble design'
[2016]
95
Woodall, Dena Marie, 1969–
Picturing nature
[2025]
96
Bull, Duncan
Classic ground
1981
97
Spadafora, David, 1951–
The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain
c1990
98
John Talman
2008
99
Arch, Nigel
Court dress collection
1984
100
Exhibition of 18th and 19th century English watercolours from 16th March until 3rd April, 1965
1965
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