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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
3
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
2
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
2
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
2
Wood, Lawson, 1878–1957
2
A.J.K.H.
1
Alexander, Mary
1
Alpenny, Joseph Samuel, 1787–1858
1
Birch, G
1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
1
Boughey, Anastasia Elizabeth, ca. 1817–1893
1
Bulstrode, Christopher Stone, 1818–1894
1
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844
1
Byron, Jane
1
Cameron, Emy E.
1
Carr family
1
Carson, Agnes, fl. 1866
1
Churchyard, Harriet, 1836–1926
1
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
1
Cowell, John
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Unknown
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
129
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
1
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Under Certain Circumstances
122
Free to Use
8
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Unavailable
98
Available
32
New Additions
2023-2024
4
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Drawings & Watercolors
77
Archives & Manuscripts
35
Books
3
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
1
Prints
1
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unknown
130
Period
19th century
115
18th century
13
20th century
13
21st century
2
17th century
1
Materials & Techniques
wove paper
6
watercolor (paint)
3
graphite (mineral)
2
ink
2
charcoal (material)
1
graphite
1
graphite (color)
1
vellum (parchment)
1
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sketchbook
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130
graphite drawing
74
ink drawing
66
watercolor
59
travel sketche
36
landscape drawing
27
wash drawing
16
children's art
13
albums (books)
12
view
11
botanical illustration
10
portrait
9
caricature
8
drawings (visual works)
8
diarie
7
engraving
7
marine drawing
7
photograph
7
figure drawing
6
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Grand tours (Education)
6
Italy -- Pictorial works.
6
Women in natural history.
6
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
5
Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
5
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
5
Ships in art.
5
Switzerland -- Pictorial works.
5
Devon (England) -- Pictorial works.
4
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
4
France -- Description and travel.
4
Horses -- Pictorial works.
4
Scotland -- Pictorial works.
4
Waterfronts.
4
Yorkshire (England) -- Pictorial works.
4
Animals in art.
3
Castles & palaces.
3
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
3
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881.
3
Drawing -- Technique.
3
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16
20th century
5
18th century
2
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Great Britain
42
France
9
Italy
9
Switzerland
9
England
8
Devon (England)
5
Scotland
5
Yorkshire (England)
5
Germany
4
Kent (England)
4
Belgium
3
Hampshire (England)
3
Highlands (Scotland)
3
India
3
Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
2
Bristol (England)
2
Broadstairs (England)
2
Dover (England)
2
Essex (England)
2
Hertfordshire (England)
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Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
3
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
3
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
2
Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
2
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
2
Wood, Lawson, 1878–1957
2
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
1
Alloway, Lawrence, 1926–1990
1
Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852–1928
1
Backhouse, Edward, 1808–1879
1
Backhouse, John Mounsey
1
Backhouse, Lucy Backhouse, 1812–1872
1
Backhouse, Rachel, 1826–1898
1
Backhouse, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1810–1857
1
Backus family
1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848–1930
1
Barclay, Ann Ford, 1822–1913
1
Barclay, Elizabeth Gurney
1
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
1
Brand, John, 1744–1806
1
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
5
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Pierce
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Binder
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
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Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
North & south Devonshire
1840
2
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
3
Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853
Sketchbooks
1826-1851
4
Stapley, W. B.
Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley
1855-1870
5
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition
1821-1822
6
Album of drawings of English moths, butterflies, flowers, and mollusks
1805-1822
7
Album of drawings
ca. 1900-1903
8
Crompton, Elizabeth Jane, 1791–1869
Scotch scenery,
circa 1814
9
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
10
Luxmoore, Mary
Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay
circa 1830
11
Grand tour watercolor albums
1793-1842
12
Reid, Jane Caroline, 1797–1834
Sketchbook of figures, cattle, and views in Kolkata
between 1821 and 1831
13
Yelloly, Sophia Mary, 1811–1840
Yelloly family watercolor albums
1827-1839
14
Fenton, Ellen, b. ca. 1813
Ellen Fenton diaries
1854-1862
15
Pierce, Constance, born 1946
Sketchbook,
1995
16
Dickson, Archibald, 1703–1747
Drawings of houses and gardens
1736-1743
17
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Sketchbook
circa 1830
18
Portraits of Cape Town figures
ca. 1828
19
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria
1796-1803
20
Album of watercolors of British birds
circa 1820-circa 1830
21
Illustrations to the novels of Walter Scott
1830s?
22
Garnett, John, b. ca. 1791?
Sketchbook
circa 1811
23
A.J.K.H.
Album of comic sketches
1869-1873
24
Album of domestic interiors and figures in fashionable dress
circa 1860
25
Moser, Robert James, 1828–1908
Drawings of London street life
1888
26
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
27
Cowell, John
Sketches of John & George from home
June 25th, 1842
28
Jones, Calvert Richard, 1802–1877
Album of maritime and figure sketches
1849 September 4-1850 April 22
29
Album of animal drawings and lithographs
1832-1834
30
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Original watercolors for A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France,
1789
31
Hancock, John, 1804–1839
Drawings and notebooks on porcelain painting
circa 1821-1836
32
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Record books
1829-1864
33
Maxwell, James Scott, ca. 1845–1922
Sketchbook of British and American steam yachts, sailing vessels, paddle steamers, and warships
1888-1889
34
J. J
Sketchbook of views in England
1843-1844
35
[Views of St. Mary's Church and Nash's Field, Herriard]
[1836]
36
Paget, John, 1811–1898
Album of drawings, etchings, and watercolors
1829-1843 (bulk 1832-1834)
37
Johnson, Edward Reginald, b. 1846
Sketchbook of Indian scenes and British colonial life
1869-1872
38
Sketchbook of English cathedral sculpture and women's hats
approximately 1876
39
Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
Sketchbooks of tours in Italy
1792, July 21-1793, April 12
40
Cosby, Anne Beresford, -1872
Sketches in Scandinavia & Germany by Anne Beresford Cosby
circa 1859-1872
41
Boughey, Anastasia Elizabeth, ca. 1817–1893
Album of embroidery designs
circa 1840
42
M. H., active 1814–1815
Sketchbook
1814-1815
43
Madocks, John Edward, 1760–1806
Archery
1787
44
River Seine sketchbook,
early 19th century
45
Artist's sketchbook,
circa 1809?
46
Sketchbook of views in Wales, Devon, and Staffordshire,
1849 June 6-1850 November 4
47
Storer, H. S. (Henry Sargant), 1795–1837
Sixty-four original designs & drawings illustrative of Cowper's poems &c. by H. St. Storer
1822
48
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
49
Moses, Walter Thomas, b. 1862
Sketches by W.T. Moses at Kemp's Hall
[ca. 1875]
50
Churchyard, Harriet, 1836–1926
Sketchbook
late 19th century
51
Headlam, Cuthbert Morley, 1876–1964
Sketchbooks
1892-1896
52
K. M. T
Flowers of Skye
1899-1901
53
Drawings of rural scenery and architectural details
mid-19th century?
54
Wood, Lawson, 1878–1957
Lawson Wood sketchbook,
1890-1893
55
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
56
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Henrietta Matilda Crompton sketchbook
1826
57
Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
Cecilia Fitzgerald-de-Ros sketchbook
1820s
58
G. C. T
Out for a holiday
1880, August 10-1881, August 15
59
Shepperson, Matthew, 1785–1874
Sketchbook
1818
60
Davison, William, 1798–1870
Album of maritime sketches at Hartlepool
1831-1854
61
McHale, John
John McHale archive,
ca. 1950-1978
62
Bulstrode, Christopher Stone, 1818–1894
Sketchbook
1831-1832
63
Two sketchbooks of architectural views,
1834-1846
64
Wood, Lawson, 1878–1957
Lawson Wood sketchbook,
1895, February
65
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Charles Robert Leslie collection,
circa 1812-1900
66
Specimens of architecture, Grecian & Gothic
circa 1830
67
Le Messurier's A.B.C. sketching frame
circa 1900?
68
John Hardman & Co
John Hardman & Co. album of stained glass designs
ca. 1850-ca. 2000
69
Delme-Radcliffe family
Sketchbook
mid-19th century
70
Bodenham, Elizabeth Mary
Italy sketchbook
1843
71
Jones family
Jones family archive
1805-1945
72
Birch, G
Original sketches by an officer
1840?
73
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751–1832
Theatrical drawings
1788-1832
74
Drawings of religious orders
circa [1800?]
75
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Sketchbook, with copies of work by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, and other artists
1840-1841
76
Fuller, Edmund George, 1858–1940
Edmund G. Fuller sketchbooks
approximately 1892-1923
77
Tompkin, Miss
Isle of Wight sketchbook
1874-1880
78
Alpenny, Joseph Samuel, 1787–1858
Sketchbook
1835
79
White, Frank H
Frank H. White sketchbook
1898
80
Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865–1916
Ironclads of the world
1884-1889
81
Stanhope, Mary Alexandrina
Sketchbook
1875-1895
82
Crompton, Henrietta Matilda, 1793–1881
Sketches of Lynmouth, Bath and Clifton
approximately 1834-approximately 1849
83
Byron, Jane
[Drawing book]
1801
84
Hockney, David, born 1937
220 for 2020
[2021]
85
D. C
[Sketchbook of views in Britain]
1834-1861
86
Heathorn, Thomas Bridges, 1831–1911
The griffinage of the Hon. Newman Strange
1862
87
Ridout, Louisa, 1785–1860
Sketchbook of tradesperson fashions in northern France
1815 December 21-1817 November 18
88
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Hubert von Herkomer archive,
1862-1943
89
S. J
Architectural sketchbook
1854, May 12-1856, July 29
90
Martin, Charles William, 1850–1895
Drawings by Charles William Martin
1866
91
Horton, Westley, 1846–1910
Illustrations to The rime of the ancient mariner
1891
92
Hutson, George, 1754 or 5–1794
A book of maps
1777
93
[Devon sketchbook]
[not before 1814]
94
Smith, Elizabeth, fl. 1822–1825
Sketchbook of a series of tours through England
1822, June 25-1825, May 20
95
Skelly, Louisa
Sketchbook of a visit to the Continent
[ca. 1850?]
96
Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
[Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures]
[ca. 1829?]
97
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810
98
Humble, Michael M
Sketchbook
1844
99
Davy, Henry, active 1829
Original drawings for A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk
1817-1828
100
[Mr. Brisk's travels in Scotland]
[1845]
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