Yale Center for British Art. Prints and Drawings Department, Yale Center for British Art Prints and Drawings Department records, 1975 2018
- Call Number:
- A026
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Yale Center for British Art. Prints and Drawings Department
- Title(s):
- Yale Center for British Art Prints and Drawings Department records
- Date:
- 1975 2018
- Extent:
- 99.37 linear feet
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Conditions Governing Access:
- This collection is unprocessed and may not be available for immediate access.
- Biographical/Historical:
- The Prints and Drawings department has more than 20,000 drawings and watercolors and 30,000 prints. The collection offers a comprehensive view of the development of British graphic art from the Tudor age to the twenty-first century. There is a particular emphasis on the British watercolor school of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Areas of specialized interest include topographical prints, caricatures, mezzotint portraits, sporting prints, architectural drawings, Shakespearean subjects, and works relating to the former British Empire.
- Scope and Content:
- The Prints and Drawings department records document the department's curatorial activities from 1975 to 2018. The collection includes administrative documents, correspondence, acquisition records, exhibition records, and documentation of curators' scholarship and research.
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt museum curatorsArt, BritishCollectors and collecting
- Associated Places:
- United States
- Associated People/Groups:
- Yale Center for British Art
- Finding Aid Title:
- Yale Center for British Art Prints and Drawings Department records
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5415.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/resources/5415
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/resources/5415?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1