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1. The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, Esq. / composed from materials furnished by himself.

Creator:: Galt, John, 1779-1839
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

2. Prince William / Valerie Garner.

Creator:: Garner, Valerie
Date:: 1998
Physical Description:: 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

3. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

Creator:: Cohen, David, 1955-
Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

4. William Day's reminiscences of the turf : with anecdotes and recollections of its principal celebrities during the present reign.

Creator:: Day, William, 1823-1908
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: xiv, 466 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Edward Bawden : editioned prints / Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.

Creator:: Greenwood, Jeremy
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 134, [2] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.

6. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

Creator:: Hayley, William, 1745-1820
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

7. The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. : compiled from materials furnished by himself / by John Galt.

Creator:: Galt, John, 1779-1839
Date:: 1832, c1830
Physical Description:: iv, 88 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

8. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

Creator:: De Heriz, Patrick
Date:: [1947]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Sarah A. M.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2018 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles and additional research by Sasha Morse ; edited by Pascale Oakley, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton.

The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2018 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles and additional research by Sasha Morse ; edited by Pascale Oakley, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton.

Creator:: Wootton, David, 1963-
Date:: [2018?]
Physical Description:: 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

Creator:: Hilton, Timothy, 1941-
Date:: [1985]-[2000]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

12. The studio : a psychoanalytic legacy / Gill Gregory.

Creator:: Gregory, Gill
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gill Gregory.

13. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

Creator:: Jones, Jonathan, 1976-
Date:: 2020
Physical Description:: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

Creator:: Sammons, Sandra Wallus
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xiv, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Creator:: Ewan, Joseph, 1909-1999
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xxvi, 1,127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

Creator:: Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 192 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

Creator:: Berry, Claude
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Barbara Hepworth : the sculptor in the studio / Sophie Bowness.

Creator:: Bowness, Sophie
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Hogarth / David Bindman.

Creator:: Bindman, David, 1940-
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain / edited by Eleanor Clayton.

Creator:: Miller, Lee, 1907-1977
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. William Morris / edited by Anna Mason.

Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Stanley Spencer : looking to heaven / Stanley Spencer ; editor, John Spencer.

Creator:: Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891-1959
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

Creator:: Holloway, Jennifer
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 158 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.

Creator:: Lesser, Wendy
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2016 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles ; edited by David Wootton, with Fiona Nickerson and Pascale Oakley.

The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2016 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles ; edited by David Wootton, with Fiona Nickerson and Pascale Oakley.

Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 155 pages : illustrations (color, and black and white) ; 21 x 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. The Flower Hunter : travels with William Bartram.

Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (12 min., 28 sec) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carol Popplin.

27. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

Creator:: Scarisbrick, Diana
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

Creator:: Hinde, Thomas, 1926-2014
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

Creator:: Young, Lee
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: x, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Pre-Raphaelite papers / edited by Leslie Parris.

Date:: [1984]
Physical Description:: 272 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

31. Gainsborough : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948-
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xvi, 420 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Nicholas Hilliard : life of an artist / Elizabeth Goldring.

Creator:: Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970-
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: xiii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

Creator:: Baird, William, active 1898
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

34. The Pre-Raphaelite circle / by Jan Marsh.

Creator:: Marsh, Jan, 1942-
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 136 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

Creator:: Montfort, Patricia de
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xiv, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. Richard Parkes Bonington / Carlos Peacock.

Creator:: Peacock, Carlos
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

37. The Farington diary / by Joseph Farington, R.A. ; edited by James Greig ...

Creator:: Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821
Date:: [1923-28]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Peter Clapham Sheppard : his life and work / Tom Smart ; foreword by Louis Gagliardi.

Creator:: Smart, Tom
Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. The book and periodical illustrations of Arthur Hughes : 'a spark of genius,' 1832-1915 / Maroussia Oakley.

Creator:: Oakley, Maroussia
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 325 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Creator:: Julien, Isaac
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

Creator:: Hopkins, Owen, 1984-
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

Creator:: Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895-1990
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: 5 preliminary leaves, 3-260 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Rose Hilton : 'something to keep the balance' / Andrew Lambirth.

Creator:: Lambirth, Andrew, 1959-
Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

Creator:: Moyle, Franny, aut
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xii, 380 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

Creator:: Craig-Martin, Michael, 1941-
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

Creator:: Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871-1937
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: xix, 394 pages, [156] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

48. David Hockney / James Cahill.

Creator:: Cahill, James
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Ravilious / James Russell.

Creator:: Russell, James
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: vii, 192 pages : mostly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

Creator:: Uglow, Jennifer S.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: x, 598 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

51. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948-
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xx, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Young Mr Turner : the first forty years, 1775-1815 / Eric Shanes.

Creator:: Shanes, Eric
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: xiii, 538 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

53. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

Creator:: Bond, Barbara A.
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Artists who make books / Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, and Claire Lehmann, editors. ; entries by Jeffrey Kastner and Claire Lehmann.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

55. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Winifred Knights, 1899-1947 / Sacha Llewellyn.

Creator:: Llewellyn, Sacha
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

57. The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

Creator:: Voysey, Charles F. A., 1857-1941
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 252 pages : illustrations ; 30 x 39 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

58. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

Creator:: McGregor, Alasdair, 1954-
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 369 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

Creator:: Knapp, Lewis M. (Lewis Mansfield)
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

60. The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon / edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: xxiiip., 1 leaf, 311 pages : frontispiece, 3 portrait, folded facsimile ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules Prown.

61. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

Creator:: De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899-1972
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Sir Thomas Lawrence / Kenneth Garlick.

Creator:: Garlick, Kenneth, 1916-2009
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: viii, 92 pages : plates ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, BAC: Copy 1 is a gift of Paul Mellon and copy 2 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

63. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

64. The church and chapel interiors of John Loughborough Pearson : a selective assessment of significance / Clare Howard and Simon Taylor.

Creator:: Howard, Clare (Archaeologist)
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 404 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

Date:: [2014]
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

66. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

67. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

Creator:: Haste, Cate, 1945-
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

68. Edward Stott (1855-1918) : a master of colour and atmosphere / Valerie Webb.

Creator:: Webb, Valerie
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

Creator:: Powers, Alan, 1955-
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Creator:: Sheldon, Esther K.
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: x, 530 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

71. The photographs of Lewis Carroll : a catalogue raisonné / by Edward Wakeling.

Creator:: Wakeling, Edward
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

72. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, John Stewart
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: xxiv, 282 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Mrs Delany : a life / Clarissa Campbell Orr.

Creator:: Orr, Clarissa Campbell
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xv, 405 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

74. The drawings of Roger Hilton / Adrian Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Adrian, 1951-
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

75. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1837-2015 / [written and researched by David Wootton, with contributions by Alexander Beetles ; edited by Catherine Andrews, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton].

The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1837-2015 / [written and researched by David Wootton, with contributions by Alexander Beetles ; edited by Catherine Andrews, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton].

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

76. George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886 / John Tregenza.

Creator:: Tregenza, John
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 88 pages : illustrations (some color) maps on endpapers, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

77. Nathaniel Clements 1705-77 : politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / A.P.W. Malcolmson.

Creator:: Malcomson, A. P. W.
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

78. The household of Sir Thomas More : a portrait by Hans Holbein / described by Ruth Norrington.

Creator:: Norrington, Ruth
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), 1 plan, 1 portrait
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

79. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17-
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 204 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

80. In praise of Paul Mellon.

Date:: [1987]
Physical Description:: 130 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.

81. The Stationers' Company and the printers of London, 1501-1557 / Peter W.M. Blayney.

Creator:: Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944-
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

82. William Beckford / James Lees-Milne.

Creator:: Lees-Milne, James
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 124 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

83. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

Creator:: Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948-
Date:: [1998]
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

84. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

Creator:: Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853-1920
Date:: 1900
Physical Description:: xii, 256 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

85. Roland Penrose : the life of a surrealist / James King.

Creator:: King, James, 1942-
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 328 pages, [16] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

86. Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011) : England's greatest cartoonist / [researched and written by David Wootton ; additional research by Catherine Andrews ; edited by Catherine Andrews and David Wootton].

Ronald Searle remembered, (1920-2011) : England's greatest cartoonist / [researched and written by David Wootton ; additional research by Catherine Andrews ; edited by Catherine Andrews and David Wootton].

Date:: [2012]
Physical Description:: 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

87. David Hockney : moving focus : works from the Tate collection / edited by Helen Little.

Creator:: Hockney, David
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

88. Graham Sutherland : life, work and ideas / Rosalind Thuillier.

Creator:: Thuillier, Rosalind
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

89. R.B. Kitaj : confessions of an old Jewish painter : autobiography / R.B. Kitaj ; preface by David Hockney ; edited and with an epilogue by Eckhart J. Gillen.

Creator:: Kitaj, R. B
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 398 pages : 212 illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

90. Robin Darwin : visionary educator and painter / Henrietta Goodden.

Creator:: Goodden, Henrietta
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xvii, 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

91. Holbein : drawings / by František Dvořák ; [translated from the German by Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson].

Creator:: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 47 pages, [57] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

92. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

Creator:: Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858-1942
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 439 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

93. Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects / edited by Phillada Ballard.

Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: xx, 629 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

94. The radical potter : the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood / Tristram Hunt.

Creator:: Hunt, Tristram, 1974-
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: xxiv, 323 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

95. Roots and wings : how Shahzia Sikander became an artist / Shahzia Sikander and Amy Novesky ; illustrated by Hanna Barczyk.

Creator:: Sikander, Shahzia, 1969-
Date:: [2021]
Physical Description:: 34 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

96. The face of Britain : a history of the nation through its portraits / Simon Schama.

Creator:: Schama, Simon
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 602 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Burning to speak : the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska / Roger Cole.

Creator:: Cole, Roger, 1922-
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 141 pages : chiefly illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

98. John Behan : the bull from Sheriff Street : the life and work of an Irish sculptor / Adrian Frazier.

Creator:: Frazier, Adrian Woods
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

99. David Hicks scrapbooks / edited by Ashley Hicks.

Creator:: Hicks, David, 1929-1998
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West, Esq. / composed from materials furnished by himself.

2. Prince William / Valerie Garner.

3. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

4. William Day's reminiscences of the turf : with anecdotes and recollections of its principal celebrities during the present reign.

5. Edward Bawden : editioned prints / Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.

6. Memoirs of the life and writings of William Hayley, Esq. : the friend and biographer of Cowper / written by himself ; with extracts from his private correspondence and unpublished poetry ; and memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the young sculptor, edited by J. Johnson.

7. The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. : compiled from materials furnished by himself / by John Galt.

8. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

9. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

10. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2018 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles and additional research by Sasha Morse ; edited by Pascale Oakley, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton.

11. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

12. The studio : a psychoanalytic legacy / Gill Gregory.

13. Tracey Emin / Jonathan Jones.

14. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

15. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

16. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

17. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

18. Barbara Hepworth : the sculptor in the studio / Sophie Bowness.

19. Hogarth / David Bindman.

20. Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain / edited by Eleanor Clayton.

21. William Morris / edited by Anna Mason.

22. Stanley Spencer : looking to heaven / Stanley Spencer ; editor, John Spencer.

23. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

24. You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn / Wendy Lesser.

25. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1900-2016 / researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles ; edited by David Wootton, with Fiona Nickerson and Pascale Oakley.

26. The Flower Hunter : travels with William Bartram.

27. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

28. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

29. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

30. Pre-Raphaelite papers / edited by Leslie Parris.

31. Gainsborough : a portrait / James Hamilton.

32. Nicholas Hilliard : life of an artist / Elizabeth Goldring.

33. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

34. The Pre-Raphaelite circle / by Jan Marsh.

35. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

36. Richard Parkes Bonington / Carlos Peacock.

37. The Farington diary / by Joseph Farington, R.A. ; edited by James Greig ...

38. Peter Clapham Sheppard : his life and work / Tom Smart ; foreword by Louis Gagliardi.

39. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.

40. The book and periodical illustrations of Arthur Hughes : 'a spark of genius,' 1832-1915 / Maroussia Oakley.

41. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

42. From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

43. Savage messiah: Gaudier-Brzeska.

44. Rose Hilton : 'something to keep the balance' / Andrew Lambirth.

45. The King's painter : the life and times of Hans Holbein / Franny Moyle.

46. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

47. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

48. David Hockney / James Cahill.

49. Ravilious / James Russell.

50. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

51. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

52. Young Mr Turner : the first forty years, 1775-1815 / Eric Shanes.

53. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

54. Artists who make books / Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, and Claire Lehmann, editors. ; entries by Jeffrey Kastner and Claire Lehmann.

55. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

56. Winifred Knights, 1899-1947 / Sacha Llewellyn.

57. The art and architecture of C.F.A. Voysey, English pioneer modernist architect and designer : a selection of architectural drawings by C.F.A. Voysey from The Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library Drawings Collection / David Cole.

58. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

59. Tobias Smollett : doctor of men and manners / by Lewis Mansfield Knapp.

60. The life, letters and table talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon / edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.

61. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

62. Sir Thomas Lawrence / Kenneth Garlick.

63. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

64. The church and chapel interiors of John Loughborough Pearson : a selective assessment of significance / Clare Howard and Simon Taylor.

65. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

66. The inking woman : 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain / edited by Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate.

67. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

68. Edward Stott (1855-1918) : a master of colour and atmosphere / Valerie Webb.

69. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

70. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

71. The photographs of Lewis Carroll : a catalogue raisonné / by Edward Wakeling.

72. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

73. Mrs Delany : a life / Clarissa Campbell Orr.

74. The drawings of Roger Hilton / Adrian Lewis.

75. The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1837-2015 / [written and researched by David Wootton, with contributions by Alexander Beetles ; edited by Catherine Andrews, Fiona Nickerson and David Wootton].