Research > Recent Acquisitions, 2003-2004

* indicates connection to Horace Walpole

Manuscript Materials

*Sir David Dalrymple to Horace Walpole, 13 February 1764, Edinburgh (Scotland).

*Sir David Dalrymple to Horace Walpole, 9 February 1764, Edinburgh (Scotland).

*James Granger to Horace Walpole, 24 July 1764, Shiplake (England).

*James Granger to Horace Walpole, 11 February 1768, Shiplake (England).

*Walter Robertson to Horace Walpole, 18 February 1764, Lynn R. [i.e., King's Lynn, England].

*[Unknown] to Horace Walpole, 25 July 1765, Conduit Street, [London, England].

Printed Materials

Livre des Routes d'Italie à l'usage des Seigneurs qui Voyagent par la Poste : où l'on Trouve la Description des Villes, Bourgs, Villages, & Rivières, & l'Explication des Vues à Quelques Milles de la Route sur la Droite & sur la Gauche en Vingt-trois Cartes Gèographiques avec une Note Exacte des Postes, du Prix des Chevaux, & de Toutes les Meilleures Auberges Tant dans les Villes que sur la Route avec Leur Juste Prix & Beaucoup d'Autres Choses Nécessaires & Utiles. France?: ca. 1780

Gemmett, Robert J., ed. The Consummate Collector:  William Beckford’s Letters to His Bookseller. Norwich: Michael Russell, 2000.

Waterfield, Giles, Anne French, with Matthew Craske.  Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants’ Portraits. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2003.

Giroud, Vincent. St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City. New Haven:  Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2003.

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan.  Colorful Impressions:  The printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth- Century France.  Washington:  National Gallery of Art, 2003.

Paulson, Ronald.    Hogarth’s Harlot: SacredParody in Enlightenment England.  Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Thomas, Robin, Peter Dorrell and Henry Lie.  Introduction to Object Identification: Guidelines for Making Records that Describe Art, Antiques and Antiquities.  Los Angeles: Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 2000.

Kennedy, Deborah.  “The Ruined Abbey in the Eighteenth Century,” Philological Quarterly 80.4 (2001):

Rivers, Isabel, ed. Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England.  London ; New York: Leicester University Press, 2001.

Minkema, Kenneth P. and George G. Levesque.  Jonathan Edwards Tercentennial Exhibition:  Selected Objects from the Yale Collection.  New Haven: 2003.

Fox, Michael J. Introduction to Archival Organization and Description.  Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, 1998.

Barchas, Janine.  Graphic Design, Print Culture and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.  Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

University of Chicago Press.  Chicago Manual of Style.   Chicago:  University of Chicago Press,  2003.

Gemmett, Robert J.  Beckford’s Fonthill: The Rise of a Romantic Icon.  Norwich: Michael Russell, 2003.

McCreery, Cindy.  The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Lopez, Claude-Anne.  My Life with Benjamin Franklin.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2000.

Kertzer, David I. and Marzio Barbagli, eds.  Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500-1789.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Black, Jeremy.  Italy and the Grand Tour.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Puttfarken, Thomas, The Discovery of Pictorial Composition:  Theories of Visual Order in Painting 1400-1800.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.

Schmeichen, James, and Kenneth Carls.  The British Market Hall: a Social and Architectural History.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Morris, Marilyn.  The British Monarchy and the French Revolution.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Salmond, Anne.  The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Encounters in the South Seas.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

McClain, Molly.  Beaufort: The Duke and his Duchess 1657-1715.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: a Life.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.

Gregg, Edward.  Queen Anne.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2001.

Wilson, Lisa.  Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1999.

Kamen, Henry.  Philip of Spain.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1997.

Rose, Jonathan.  The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2001.

Barnard, Toby.  A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2003.

Williams, Glyn.  Voyages of Delusion:  The Quest for the Northwest Passage.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2002.

Buel, Richard, Jr.  In Irons: Britain’s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1998.

Bindman, David and Scott Wilcox.  Among the Whores and Thieves.  New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1997.

* Catalogue of the Late Lord Northwick's Extensive and Magnificent Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures, Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels, and Other Choice Works of Art, and the Furniture, Plate, Wines and Effects, at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, Which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Phillips ... on Tuesday the 26th of July, 1859, and Twenty-one Subsequent Days …. London: J. Davy, 1859.

* Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Works of Art and Vertu Formed by Mr. David Falcke ... Which Will be Sold at Auction by Messrs. Christie and Manson ... on Monday, April 19, 1858.  London:  1858.

Catherine II, Empress of Russia (and Gunnar von Proschwitz, ed.) Catherine II et Gustave III : une Correspondance Retrouvée. Stockholm : Nationalmuseum, 1998.

Hunt, Tamara L. Defining John Bull : Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington:  Ashgate, 2003.

Houfe, Simon. Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists.  Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996

DeBolla, Peter.  The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-century Britain.  Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Milhous, Judy.  “Gravelot & Laguerre: Playing Hob on the Eighteenth-century English Stage.” Theatre Survey. 43:2 (2002):

Crompton, Louis.  Homosexuality and Civilization. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Brown, Harold Clifford Jr.  “Horace Walpole as Historiographer and Antiquary : a Study of Enlightenment and Anti-Medievalism” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1970.

Ingamells, John.  Mrs. Robinson and her Portraits.  London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1978.

Stansky, Peter.  Sassoon: the Worlds of Philip and Sybil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

The Shandean. 13 (2002)

Theatre Notebook. 57:1 (2003)

Carter, John.  ABC for Book Collectors. New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 1994.

Age of Johnson.  14 (2003)

Shattuck, Joanne, ed. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Hogle, Jerrold E.  Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bénézit, E.  Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes francais et étrangers.  Paris: Gründ, 1999.

Lasch, Christopher  (and Stewart Weaver, ed.)  Plain Style: a guide to written English. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Churchill, W.A.  Watermarks in paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and Their Interconnection.  Nieuwkoop: De Graaf. 1990.

Heawood, Edward.  Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries.  Culver City: Krown & Spellman, 1969

Gardiner, Richard.  A Letter to Thomas William Coke, Esq. of Holkham : Wherein a Full Answer is Given to his Advertisement Published in the Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Mercury, May 2, 1778.  London: Printed and sold by M. Folingsby ..., 1778

Champigny, Jean Bochart, chevalier de.  Nouvelle histoire générale d'Angleterre, depuis l'origine la plus reculée de ce royaume, jusqu'a l'année MDCCLXXX : Ornée des portraits en taille-douce de tous les rois d'Angleterre, et de toutes les personnes qui dans le cours de cette histoire ont fait parler d'elles,  par le colonel chevalier de Champigny, 1777.  Amsterdam: 1777.

La Fortelle, M. de.  La Vie Militaire, Politique et Privée de Demoiselle Charles-Geneviéve-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Thimothée Eon ou d'Eon de Beaumont. Paris: 1779.

Cary, John.  Cary's New Guide for Ascertaining Hackney Coach Fares and Porterage Rate : Being an Actual and Minute Admeasurement of Every Street Which is a Carriage Way Throughout the Metropolis; Showing Not Only the Whole Length of Each Street, but also the Distance Between Each Coach Turning Leading out of the Same, and Thereby Affording the Means of Ascertaining, with the Greatest Precision, the Length of any Route, However Indirect, Throughout the Whole of the Survey; Which, for Further Accomodation, is Extended to Hampstead ... &c. &c. to Which are also Added, Abstracts of the Hackney Coach and Porterage Acts; a Copious Index, Containing the Whole of the Streets Described, Their Relative Situations, Lengths, and Reference to the Pages Where Each May be Found; List of Coach Stands; and Ruled Leaves for Minuting Distances. London : Printed for J. Cary, 1801.

Punter, David, ed. A Companion to the Gothic. Oxford, UK; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Hall, James.  Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art.  New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Vickery, Amanda.  The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Nussbaum, Felicity, ed.  The Global Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Woodcock, Thomas and John Martin Robinson.  Heraldry in Historic Houses of Great Britain.  London: National Trust, 2000.

Bindman, David, Frédéric Ogée, and Peter Wagner, eds. Hogarth: Representing Nature’s Machines, Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2001.

Shesgreen, Sean.  Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

A Lecture on Wigs Illustrated by a Man Who Does Not Wear One: Addressed to All the Wig Wearers and Wig Makers in the United Kingdom.  London: Gold and Walton, 1818.

Berg, Maxine and Elizabeth Eger, eds.  Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods. Houndmills, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2003.

Pohl, Nicole and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds. Reconsidering the Bluestockings.  San Marino: Huntington Library, 2003.

Wanko, Cheryl.  Roles of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.  Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2003.

Temple, Kathryn.  Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750-1832.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Great Britain.  Parliament (1742).  House of Lords.  Die Martis, 25° Maii 1742 : Hodie, Secunda Vice, Lecta est Billa, Intituled, An Act for Indemnifying Such Persons, as Shall, upon Examination, Make Discoveries, Touching the Disposition of Publick Money, or Concerning the Disposition of Offices, or Any Payments or Agreements in Respect Thereof, or Concerning Other Matters Relating to the Conduct of Robert Earl of Orford.  London: 1742.

Swift, Jonathan (and David Woolley, ed.)  Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Rutter, John.  Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey.  Llanvapley: reprinted for Richd Sidwell at Monmouth House, 2000.

Ayres, James.  Domestic Interiors: The British Tradition, 1500-1850.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Price, Nicholas Stanley, M. Kirby Talley, Jr., and Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro, eds.  Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.  Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1996.

Chastang, Yannick. Paintings in Wood: French Marquetry Furniture.  London: Wallace Collection, 2001.

Graphic Materials

Unknown artist.  [Portrait of the Eldest Miss Gunning, Mary Gunning].  Mid-eighteenth-century.
Mezzotint.

Unknown artist.  George and England Save.  November 4, 1805.
Etching with hand coloring.

Unknown artist. Decoration du Feu d’Artifice tire à Londres.  1763. 
Etching with hand coloring.

J. Watson, after C. Read.  Countess of Suffolk.  ca.1766. 
Mezzotint.

Thomas Rolwandson.  Nap in the Country, Nap in Town. 1785. Copper plate.

James Gillray.  Plumb Pudding in Danger or State Epicures Taking un Petit Souper.
February 26, 1805.  Etching with original hand coloring.

Humphreys.  Sausage Woman, or a Scene in Covent Garden.  January 1, 1772. 
Mezzotint with original hand coloring.

Attributed to Henry Wigstead.  [Caricature of a Jewish Merchant]. ca.1790.  Watercolor.

*Unknown Artist.  [The Strawberry Hill Sale].  mid-nineteenth-century.  Pen and ink and wash.

Thomas Rowlandson, after George M. Woodward.  The Sailor and the Field Preacher.  July 25, 1805. 
Etching with hand coloring.

Michel Benedetti, after Anton Hickel.  The Night Beauty.  January 2, 1793. 
Stipple engraving colored à la poupée.

George M. Woodward.  The Danger of a Crim Con!  July 14, 1797. 
Soft-ground etching and aquatint with color.

 

   
   
   
   
   
   
 

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