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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Yale Center for British Art. Institutional Archives
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Prown, Jules David
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Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
4
Bonnell, Mandy
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
3
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
3
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
2
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
2
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
2
Bush, Tracey
2
Cracknall, James
2
Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832
2
East India Company. Army
2
Great Britain. Admiralty
2
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
2
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
2
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999
2
Orlebar, Frederica St. John, 1838–1928
2
Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
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728
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206
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28
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19th century
515
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157
18th century
117
21st century
47
17th century
16
16th century
5
15th century
1
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felt (textile)
1
lithography
1
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ephemera
150
ink drawing
135
watercolor
126
blank form
96
diarie
94
financial record
87
correspondence
86
billhead
71
receipts (financial records)
68
graphite drawing
67
engraving
64
botanical illustration
45
photograph
45
invoice
39
commonplace book
38
sketchbook
35
travel literature
32
account book
28
notebook
28
herbaria
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Clothing and dress -- Great Britain.
50
Clothing trade -- Great Britain.
36
Yale Center for British Art.
36
Art, British.
28
English poetry -- 19th century.
26
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
22
Pressed flower pictures.
21
Women in natural history.
21
Grand tours (Education)
19
Italy -- Description and travel.
19
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
17
Painters -- Great Britain.
17
France -- Description and travel.
16
Switzerland -- Description and travel.
16
Art -- Collectors and collecting.
15
Fashion -- Great Britain.
14
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
14
Woolen goods industry -- Great Britain.
14
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
13
Food -- Great Britain.
12
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19th century
154
18th century
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20th century
35
17th century
2
16th century
1
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Great Britain
330
England
41
Italy
27
London (England)
26
France
25
Switzerland
18
Europe
16
India
14
Belgium
12
United States
12
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11
London
11
Scotland
10
Manchester (England)
9
Rome (Italy)
9
Ireland
6
Yorkshire (England)
6
Egypt
5
Paris (France)
5
Austria
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Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974
9
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999
8
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
6
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
6
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
5
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
5
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
4
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738–1820
4
Prown, Jules David
4
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
4
Stevenson, Robert W., active 1881–1891
4
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
4
Hunt, William Holman, 1827–1910
3
King, Ron, 1932–
3
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
3
Millais, John Everett, 1829–1896
3
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
3
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
3
Robertson, Andrew, 1777–1845
3
Romney, George, 1734–1802
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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)
20
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
10
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
2
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
2
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016)
2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
1
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11)
1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12)
1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30)
1
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
1
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014)
1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
1
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
1
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
1
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
29
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
20
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
4
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
2
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn
1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Fred Mallender II, Yale BA 1952
1
Yale Center for British Art, Courtesy Linda Benedict-Jones
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Cathy Courtney
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29
1773 January 29
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse
[1753]
3
Constable, John, 1776–1837
Letter to John Thomas Smith
1797, between January 16 and March 23
4
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Alphabet
1857
5
Waldie, Mrs., active 1808
Bill for school expenses for Jean Cockburn, at Mrs. Waldie's school, Hendersyde
1808
6
White Hill Kiln (Luton, England)
Receipts by John Williams, of White Hill Kiln, for chimney tunnel tiles purchased by Breandveath, of Houghton, 1848
1848
7
Bill for building expenses
1760
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
Swaine, Alport & Lothian (London, England)
[Billhead of Swaine, Alport & Lowthian, distillers, London, recording gin purchased by Thomas Tebbitt, 1828]
1828
11
Levinstein Limited (firm)
Fast khakis and blues, for government requirements
1914?
12
Salisbury, W. T
Select meditations and reflections on death
circa 1782-1792
13
Walter, John
A tour in North Wales
1817
14
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
15
Great Britain. Commissioners of Excise
[Permit for Thomas Cooper to receive one cask of foreign brandy, 1809]
1809
16
Royal Academy (Gosport, England)
Bill for school expenses from the Royal Academy for Lord Augustus Beauclerk
August 2nd, 1834
17
Luxmoore, Mary
Sketches of Teignmouth and Torquay
circa 1830
18
Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth
approximately 1798-1799
19
Register of criminal offenders in Nottingham, England
circa 1879-circa 1921
20
Gibson, Joseph (Merchant)
Billhead recording purchases for repairs to a trunk and items of clothing purchased by John Hancock in 1820, from Joseph Gibson, Portsmouth
1820
21
M. &. H. Corps
Billhead recording purchase by Mrs. Harman from M. & H. Corps
[1848]
22
Decalcomania sample book
circa 1870
23
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
24
Wimpory & Son (Firm : Manchester, England)
Billhead recording purchases by Mrs. Davenport from Wimpory & Son, ladies shoe makers, Manchester
approximately 1825
25
Reece & Co. (London, England)
[Billhead of Reece & Co. for supplies bought by the Medical Botanical Society]
1838-1839
26
[Tax bill for Samuel Staneforth Esqr of Attercliff [illegible] Darnall, dated July 12, 1814]
1814
27
Muriel, Catharine
Catharine Muriel commonplace book
1825-circa 1840
28
Herring, Francis M.
[Billhead of Francis M. Herring, chemist]
1849
29
King's Lodge Academy (Exeter, England)
Bill for school expenses at King's Lodge Academy, Exeter, to be paid to the Messrs. Quicke
1850
30
Bill from the Daily Post Waggon Office, Edinburgh for carriage expenses fo Mr. G. Alexander, Banff
4th November, 1812
31
Holmes & Griffin (Firm : London, England)
[Bill of receipt for the purchase of a sedan chair by W. Murdoch of Madeira, London, 1788]
1788
32
Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832
Journal in Portugal, Spain and France
1812-1814
33
Notebook of recipes and taxidermic instructions
1830-1834
34
Morrison, S. G.
[Billhead of S.G. Morrison, general merchant in Fraserburgh, for purchases made by Mr. Bird, 1911 : with advertisement for Lipton's Tea]
1911
35
J. Christie & Son (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Billhead of J. Christie & Son, Edinburgh clothiers, for purchases by Joseph Markland, 1850
1850
36
Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime
circa 1763
37
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Clare Leighton collection,
1949-1953
38
Thompson, Miss, active 1889
Bill for school expenses for Mr. Bryans from Miss Thompson, 17 and 18 Holland Road, Brighton
April 1889
39
British Fire Office (London, England)
[Fire insurance policy for Mr. Robert Gibbs, March 1, 1808, from British Fire Office]
March 1st, 1808
40
Whitehaven Steam Navigation Company
Billhead of Whitehead Steam Navigation Company for Mr. L Whittle for goods that have been delivered
1851
41
Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
42
Shoubridge, James
Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London
1807
43
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape
circa 1790
44
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
45
Wainwright and Watkins (Firm : Hereford, England)
[Bill from Wainwright and Watkins for Sir J.G. Cotterell, 1812]
1812
46
Letters of administration of William Morgan
1781
47
Rose, Richard, 1728–1770
A journal of a voyage to Madrass
1761
48
Silver & Co. (London, England)
Billhead of Silver & Co., clothiers, London, recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Lambert
1825
49
Alexander McBean & Sons
Billhead recording clothing purchased by George W. Humphreys, Esq. from, Alexander McBean & Sons, clothiers, Inverness
1900
50
Bill for assorted coats, hose, and other clothing
1673
51
Dick, James Nicholas, 1832–1920
Journals of James Nicholas Dick, British naval surgeon, and James Douglas Dick, naval officer
1853-1898
52
Lynch, Richard, -1781
Will of Patrick Lynch
1781
53
Rowe, Miss
Rowe collection of botanical specimens,
1861-1862
54
Haldane, James (Tailor)
Billhead of James Haldane, London tailor, recording services rendered to Viscount Strathallan, 1843
1843
55
Indenture placing James Harris into the service of Anthony Harison, goldsmith
56
Simkin, Henry James, -1896
[Billhead of H.J. Simkin, carver & gilder, London, for the purchase of picture frames by Mr. Stevenson]
1891
57
Miller & Sons (London, England)
[Billhead of Miller & Sons, candle merchants, London]
[between 1830 and 1850?]
58
Hafod Arms Hotel (Ceredigion, Wales)
[Printed invoice and promotional handbill of Hafod Arms Hotel]
[184-?]
59
Osborn, Joseph (Draper)
[Billhead recording cloth purchases from Joseph Osborn, linen and woollen draper, Dunstable]
[approximately 1850?]
60
Sheffield General Cemetery Company (Sheffield, England), creator
Grant of exclusive right of burial
1864
61
Vindin, John, 1795–1852
[Billheads of John Vindin, oil & colourman, Knightsbridge for purchases by Mr. Gibbs, 1823]
1823
62
Roche, Patrick (Bootmaker)
Billhead recording shoes purchased by Mr. Roberts from P. Roche, boot maker, Liverpool
1850
63
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
64
Cracknall, James
Billhead of James Cracknall, clothier, London, for tailoring provided to Lord Strathallen, 1830
1830
65
Jersey algae
1860
66
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Sketches of the second Parry Arctic expedition
1821-1822
67
Tax bill for William Hanham, Cranleigh, Surrey, August 27th, 1843
1843
68
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
69
Medical miscellany
second half of the 15th century
70
De Worms, Louisa Matilda, 1876–1948
De Worms family scrapbook
1912-1913
71
Documents concerning "James II receiving the mathematical scholars of Christ's Hospital"
1837
72
Osborn, Joseph (Maltster)
[Billhead of Joseph Osborn, maltster, for purchases made by H. Brandreth, 1848]
1848
73
J. Fallon & Co. (Leek, England)
[Billhead of J. Fallon & Co., fish merchant, Leek, Staffordshire, for purchases made by Mr. Russell, 1887]
1887
74
Fenton, Ellen, b. ca. 1813
Ellen Fenton diaries
1854-1862
75
Barrett, B., Mr., active 1847
Bill for school expenses for F. Blanchard at B. Barrett's boarding school, Great Yarmouth
1847
76
E. & S.R. Richards
Billheads recording clothing purchased by Robert W. Stevenson from E. & S.R. Richards, clothiers, London
1891
77
Dummer, Edmund, -1712
A survey and description of the principal harbours
1698
78
Morton, Edward
Presentation album to Abraham Follett Osler, on his eightieth birthday
1888
79
Barklie, John R.
[Billhead of John R. Barklie, Proprietor, 99 Grafton Street, Dublin for items purchased by Mrs. Brewster of 9 Prince Edwards Terrace on March 15/55]
1855
80
Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
81
B. B. B
Manuscript of Keble's morning hymn
1860
82
Rotherham, Bryan, 1876–
Treatise on the art of weaving, with a full description of the Jacquard machine
1897
83
Smallwood, B.
Billhead of B. Smallwood, London haberdasher, for purchase of ribbon by an unidentified buyer
180-?
84
Collis, Isaac Mossop, 1852 or 1853–
Isaac Collis album of pawnbroker's tickets
1879-1881
85
Sayers, Henry, 1819 or 1820–1891
Toy soldier paper dolls
ca. 1830
86
Godfreys, Amy, active 1879
Bills for school expenses for Miss Gleason, to be paid to Amy Godfreys, Vernon Street, Derby
1878-1879
87
By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party
between 1792 and 1818?
88
Hearne, John, 1795 or 6–1849
John Hearne commonplace book
1820-1849
89
South Metropolitan Cemetery (London, England)
[Billhead of South Metropolitan Cemetery, opposite St. Luke's Church, Norwood
1865
90
Randall Farr & Co. (London, England)
[Billhead of Randall Farr & Co., builder, London, for window cleaning provided to Miss Sparling]
1880
91
Hebblewhite, John Thomas, active 1835
Bill for school expenses from Hacconby School, for Mr. Bavin
1835
92
Gibbon, Daniel (Hosier)
Billhead of Daniel Gibbon, London hosier, for purchases by Mr. H. Gibbs, 1832
1832
93
Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)
Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera,
1912-1914
94
Stephens, James Francis, 1792–1853
Haustellata lepidoptera diurna
circa 1839
95
[Tax bill for C. Johnstone, Paddington, Middlesex, October 4th, 1856]
1856
96
Cussons, Richard T.
Billhead of Richard T. Cussons, bookseller and stationer, Hull, for purchases by Mrs. Maister, Wood Hall
1845
97
Webb, John, 1611–1672
John Webb account book
1630s
98
Grave, Joseph (Tailor)
Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mr. Davenport from Joseph Grave, clothiers, Manchester
1820
99
West Sussex (England). County Council
Licence to drive a motor car or cycle for Frank Wickham of Woolbeding Rectory Cottage, Midhurst
1916
100
Receipt for purchase of a grave in the cemetery in Widnes, England, for Henry Dixon
1918
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