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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Haycock, David Boyd, 1968–
2
Hockney, David, born 1937
2
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
2
Nimrod, 1778–1843
2
Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
1
Adams, John, 1912–
1
Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
1
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
1
Alexander, Constance Grosvenor
1
Alexander, David (David S.)
1
Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
1
Anthony d'Offay (Firm)
1
Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
1
Baldissera, Lisa, 1966–
1
Bellamy, Martin
1
Bhreathnach-Lynch, Síghle
1
Bindman, David, 1940–
1
Bloch, Michael
1
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
1
Brett, Simon, born 1943
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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
110
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
29
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Under Certain Circumstances
136
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Unavailable
136
New Additions
2023-2024
8
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Books
135
Periodicals
1
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unknown
135
female
1
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21st century
88
20th century
31
19th century
18
15th century
3
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biographie
136
biography
27
history
20
criticism, interpretation, etc
12
exhibition catalog
8
wood engraving
6
collective biographie
4
engraving
4
personal correspondence
4
publishers' advertisement
4
chromolithograph
3
dictionarie
3
fragments (object portions)
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incunabula
3
private press books (publishing)
3
woodcut
3
aquatint
2
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2
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2
catalog
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Great Britain.
53
England.
19
Painters.
18
Artists.
14
Artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
11
Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
11
Artists -- England -- Biography.
9
United States.
6
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
5
Women artists.
5
Illustrators.
4
Painters -- England -- Biography.
4
Sculptors.
4
Women artists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
4
ART / General.
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Architects.
3
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Biography -- Dictionaries.
3
Hockney, David, born 1937.
3
Hunting -- Great Britain.
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Alfred, 871-899
1
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England
24
United States
9
France
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Canada
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Greece
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London
2
Rome
2
Shropshire (England)
2
Austria
1
Black Mountains (Wales and England)
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Collioure (France)
1
Dublin
1
Egypt
1
England Chiddingly
1
France Collioure
1
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Hockney, David, born 1937
3
Blake, William, 1757–1827
2
Emin, Tracey, born 1963
2
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
2
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974
2
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
2
Mytton, John, 1796–1834
2
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
2
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795
2
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
1
Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
1
Alexander, Francesca, 1837–1917
1
Alfred, King of England, 849–899
1
Andrews, Sybil, 1898–1992
1
Anne, Queen, consort of James I, King of England, 1574–1619
1
Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina, 1912–2004
1
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766–1815
1
Beale, Mary, 1632–1697
1
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adrianna Bates
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max Donnelly.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Max and Barbara Wilk.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miriam C. Niederman, Yale YSN 1953
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of YCBA Museum Shop.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.
1
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English
132
German
2
French
1
Latin
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Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Rambling recollections of a soldier of fortune
1842
2
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
George Selwyn and his contemporaries
1843-1844
3
The Illustrated London News
1937
4
Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850–1918
The life of Velazquez
1896
5
Smith, William, 1813–1893
Dictionary of Greek and roman biography and mythology
[1844-1849]
6
Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935
Time I was dead
1934
7
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Leben der Heiligen
[1475]
8
Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours
1855-1866
9
Shelley memorials
1859
10
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434–1520
De plurimis claris sceletisq[ue] mulieribus
tertio kal[endas]. maias. anno salutis n[ost]re. M.cccclxxxxvij [29 April 1497]
11
Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities
1849
12
Lewis, Michael, 1919–1999
The Lewis family, art and travel
[1993?]
13
Cohen, David, 1955–
William & Catherine
©2011
14
Buch der heiligen Altvätter
[September 25, 1482]
15
The adventures of Commodore Paul
[1884]
16
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire ...
1851
17
Brinley, Francis, 1800–1889
Life of William T. Porter
MDCCCLX [1860]
18
Elizabeth, the Queen
©1953
19
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
The life of George Cruikshank
1898
20
Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
Brooklands
1852
21
Tallemant Des Réaux, 1619–1690
Love-tales from Tallemant
1925
22
Gale, J. H., Reverend
Hound and horn, or, The life and recollections of George Carter, the great huntsman
1885
23
Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy
1899
24
Abbott, Jacob, 1803–1879
History of King Alfred of England
[1849?]
25
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de, -1614
The lives of gallant ladies
1924
26
Wilson, Mona, 1872–
The life of William Blake
MCMXXVII [1927]
27
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ...
1837
28
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841–1915
Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero
[1984]
29
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Turner's modern world
2020
30
Griswold, Mac K.
I'll build a stairway to paradise
2022
31
Brookhiser, Richard
Glorious lessons
[2024]
32
Moorhouse, Paul
Bridget Riley
2019
33
Spectre, Phillip
Richard Hamilton
[2019]
34
Elzea, Betty
A singular man
2023
35
Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
John Ruskin
[1985]-[2000]
36
Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Benjamin Smith Barton
2007
37
Weiss Gallery (London, England)
A noble visage
[2001?]
38
Lives of Gainsborough
2021
39
Palmer, A. H. (Alfred Herbert), 1853–1932
A memoir of Samuel Palmer
2020
40
Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719–1791
George Selwyn
1899
41
Paul, Celia, born 1959
Self-portrait
[2019]
42
Emin, Tracey, born 1963
Strangeland
2005
43
Clayton, Eleanor
Barbara Hepworth
2021
44
Alexander, Constance Grosvenor
Francesca Alexander
1927
45
Smith, Martin Ferguson
The artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937)
2023
46
Uglow, Jenny, 1947–
Sybil & Cyril
2022
47
Lives of William Blake
2020
48
De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
1953
49
Who's who in art
[1927]-
50
Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
The story of my life
1896
51
Bellamy, Martin
William Burrell
2022
52
Turner, Sarah A. M.
Percy Moore Turner
2018
53
Powers, Alan, 1955–
Enid Marx
2018
54
Karbach, Walter, 1950–
Carl Haag
[2019]
55
Sheldon, Esther K.
Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley
1967
56
Gammel, Irene, 1959–
I can only paint
[2020]
57
The curious Mister Catesby
[2015]
58
Reynolds, Graham
Turner
2020
59
Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895–1990
Savage messiah
1931
60
Moyle, Franny, aut
The King's painter
2021
61
Tudor-Hart, Edith, 1908–1973
Edith Tudor-Hart
[2013]
62
Allen, Christine, 1953–2014
Annie Swynnerton, painter and pioneer
2018
63
The inking woman
2018
64
Trollope, James
Rudolph Ihlee
2022
65
Jones, Jonathan, 1976–
Tracey Emin
2020
66
Fenwick, Simon
Joan
2017
67
Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Tobias Smollett
1949
68
Riding, Jacqueline
Hogarth
2021
69
Button, Virginia
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
2020
70
LINDERISM
2020
71
Fazio, Nichole J.
Julia Margaret Cameron
2023
72
Naish, G. P. B. (George P. B.)
Nelson & Bronte,
1958
73
Jacobi, Carol
Out of the cage
2021
74
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Aubrey Beardsley
2020
75
Sale, William Merritt, 1899–1981
Samuel Richardson
1950
76
Penrose, Antony
The home of the surrealists
[2016]
77
Uglow, Jennifer S.
Mr. Lear
2018
78
Alexander, David (David S.)
A biographical dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714-1820
2021
79
Baldissera, Lisa, 1966–
Emily Carr
[2021]
80
William Morris
2021
81
Rabbitts, Paul A.
Decimus Burton
2021
82
Bindman, David, 1940–
Hogarth
2021
83
Hunting, Penelope
My dearest heart
2019
84
Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862–1948
The life and times of Laurence Sterne
1925
85
Ford, John, 1936–
Rudolph Ackermann & the Regency world
[2018]
86
Morgan, H. C
A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878
1968
87
Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952–
The natural history of Edward Lear
[2021]
88
Cahill, James
David Hockney
2021
89
Wiseman, Carter
Louis Kahn
2020
90
Lesser, Wendy
You say to brick
2017
91
Hamilton, James, 1948–
Constable
2022
92
Wynne, Catherine, 1971–
Lady Butler
[2019]
93
Young, Lee
An artist in Abydos
2021
94
Freeman, Laura (Freelance writer and art critic)
Ways of life
2023
95
Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Isaac Julien
[2013]
96
Marsh, Jan, 1942–
Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood
2019
97
Moorhead, Joanna
Surreal spaces
2023
98
Jones, Gregory
William Harry Rogers
2023
99
Foster, Alicia
Gwen John
2023
100
Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904–1976
The Windsor years ;
[1967]
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