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• Catalogue of the special loan exhibition of old masters of the British school in aid of "The artists' fund" and "Artists' aid" societies; being a selection from pictures acquired from Messrs. Duveen brothers within the last three years, held at the galleries of Messrs. Duveen brothers ... New York, January, 1914. (Bishop & Garrett, printers, 1914), by Duveen Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of King James, the Second, on loan to the South Kensington museum. April 1866. (Printed by Strangeways and Walden, 1866), by South Kensington Museum and Great Britain. Department of Science and Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of an exhibition of engraved portraits, being the effigies of the most famous English writers from Chaucer to Johnson (The Club], 1891), by Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• An exhibition of sixty drawings by Sir Thomas Lawrence : opened April 23, 1913, at the Edward Gallery, 26, King Street, London ([Bemrose & Sons], 1913), by Algernon Graves, C. Reginald Grundy, and Edward Gallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old masters of the British school. (Duveen Bros., 1914), by Duveen Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits (Birmingham, 1903), by Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Arthur B. Chamberlain, Whitworth Wallis, and Joshua Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical catalogue of portraits, representing distinguished persons in the history and literature of the United Kingdom. (Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1820), by British Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of historical portraits selected from the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866 : photographed from the original paintings. (London : Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, [1866?], 1866), by National Portrait Exhibition (Great Britain) (1866) and Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exeter meeting, 1873 ("Gazette" Office, 1873), by England) Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Congress (1873 : Exeter and Royal Albert Memorial Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on some of the principal portraits of Devonshire worthies (including some from Cornwall) : exhibited during the Archaeological Institute Congress at Exeter, 1873 (s.n., 1873), by George Scharf and England) Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Congress (1873 : Exeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition of the monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland (The Gallery, 1901), by England) New Gallery (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of the first [-third] special exhibition of national portraits ... on loan to the South Kensington museum. April 1866 [-April 13, 1868] (Printed by Strangeways and Walden, 1866), by Victoria and Albert Museum and Samuel Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Twelve Portraits (London: Faber and Faber Ltd., c1929), illust. by William Rothenstein (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The National portrait gallery (Cassell and company, limited, 1901), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits in Suffolk houses (West) (B. Quaritch, 1908), by Edmund Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions (D. Estes & co., 1902), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of men and women (A. Constable, 1900), by Violet Lindsay Manners Rutland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exhibition of English literary portraits (The De Vinne Press, 1898), by Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century (Halton & Truscott Smith;, 1926), by Charles Edward Russell and John Chaloner Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The biographical mirrour, comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits, of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings. (S. and E. Harding, 1795), by F. G. Waldron, E. Harding, and Sylvester Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• National worthies (Constable, 1899), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough, John Hoppner, Sir Henry Raeburn, and other artists. (Printed at the Guild Press, 1900), by Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history, from the introduction of Christianity to the present time : Engraved from important works by distinguished modern painters, and from authentic state portraits. With descriptive historical sketches (Blackie & son, 1880), by Thomas Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• British autography. A collection of facsimilies of the hand writing of royal and illustrious personages, with their authentic portraits. (J. Thane, 1819), by John Thane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of portraits to illustrate Granger's Biog. hist. of England and Noble's continuation to Granger : forming a supplement to Richardson's copies of rare Granger portraits. (T. and H. Rodd, 1820), by William Richardson, Mark Noble, James Granger, and Frank W. Tober Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodburn's Gallery of rare portraits; consisting of original plates, by Cecil, Delaram, Droeshout ... &c., with facsimile copies from the rarest and most curious portraits, illustrative of Granger's Biographical history of England, Clarendon's History of the rebellion, Burnet's History of his own time, Pennant's London, &c. ... containing two hundred portraits, of persons celebrated for their diplomatic services, military or naval achievements, literary acquirements, eccentric habits, or some peculiar feature in their lives deserving the notice of the historian and biographer; particularly the ... equestrian set of plates in the illustrated Clarendon, belonging to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.G., with others from the most remarkable and singular prints, in the possession of different noblemen and gentlemen, celebrated for their collection of rare portraits. (Pub. for the proprietor, by G. Jones, 1816), by Samuel Woodburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history : from the introduction of Christianity to the present time : engraved from important works by distinguished modern painters and from authentic state portraits, with descriptive historical sketches (Blackie, 1882), by Thomas Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850. (s.n., 1863), by Colesworthey Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and descriptive catalogue of the pictures, busts, &c., in the National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington. (London, 1884), by George Scharf and National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Series of four hundred and six historical portraits to illustrate Granger's Biographical history of England, engraved from rare originals by Pass, Elstracke, Faithorne, Hollar, Gaywood and others from the collections of Richardson, Rodd, Caulfield, Ricraft, etc., forming the largest collection of Granger portraits hitherto published (London, 1800), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history, from the introduction of Christianity to the present time. Engraved from important works by distinguished modern painters, and from authentic state portraits. With descriptive historical sketches (Blackie & son, 1878), by Thomas Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages, chiefly of the nineteenth century, with memoirs (Fisher, Son, & Co., 1846), by W. C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• James and William Tassie : a biographical and critical sketch, with a catalog of their portrait medallions of modern personages (W.G. Patterson, 1894), by John Miller Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• British messotinto portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. (H. Sotheran & co. [etc], 1883), by John Chaloner Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of rare portraits (Published for the proprietor by G. Jones, 1816), by Samuel Woodburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time (H. Sotheran, 1878), by John Chaloner Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical portraits, 1700-1850 (Clarendon Press, 1919), by C. R. L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The court album (D. Bogue, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portret i krajobraz angielski (W księg. H. Altenberga, 1907), by Antoni Potocki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A catalogue of engraved portraits of celebrated personages : chiefly connected with the history and literature of Great Britain (W.V. Daniell, 1900), by Walter Vernon Daniell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions (George Bell and Sons, 1888), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• English portraits, a series of lithographed drawings (G. Richards, 1898), by William Rothenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• An important collection of old master paintings and fine XVIII century British portraits. ([Alexander Press, 1933), by New York Westhome Security Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The National Portrait Gallery of illustrations and eminent personages, chiefly of the nineteenth century : with memoirs (Peter Jackson, 1848), by W. C. Taylor and National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits in Norfolk houses (Jarrold and Sons, Ltd.[, 1928), by Frederick Duleep Singh and Edmund Farrer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Winter exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, 1904), by Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated catalogue of the ... collection of early American and British portraits, landscapes, and historical pictures ([Lent & Graff Co., printers], 1920), by Frank Bulkeley Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• British messotinto portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. (H. Sotheran & co. [etc], 1883), by John Chaloner Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exposition d'œuvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle à la Bibliothèque nationale : catalogue : miniatures, gouaches, estampes en couleurs françaises et anglaises 1750-1815, médailles et pierres gravées 1700-1800, biscuits de Sèveres. (E. Lévy, 1906), by Bibliothèque nationale (France), Henri de La Tour, and Bouchot Henri François Xavier Marie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908), by British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Henry M. Hake, and Freeman M. O'Donoghue (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of engraved British portraits, from Egbert the Great to the present time. Consisting of the effigies of persons in every walk of human life ... With an appendix, containing the portraits of such foreigners as ... may claim a place in the British series. Methodically disposed in classes, and interspersed with a number of notices biographical and genealogical, never before published. (T. Payne, 1793), by Henry Bromley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the first [to third] exhibition[s] of national portraits ... on loan to the South Kensington Museum ... (Printed by Strangeways and Walden, 1866), by South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the genuine and extraordinary collection of British portraits and historic prints ... collected ... by the late Sir James Winter Lake. (Da Ponte, 1808), by James Winter Lake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of a very extensive collection of prints, by ancient and modern masters, divided into two parts (Printed by J. & W. Smith, 1809), by Robert Grave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of engraved portraits. (Davy, 1849), by England) Sotheby & Co. (London and James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amateur's pocket companion; or, A description of scarce and valuable engraved British portraits. Also of the rare or curious books, as mentioned in the works of Granger, Bromley, Noble, &c. Alphabetically arranged. With notes, including the prices and descriptions of many rare prints ... (J.M. Flindall [etc.], 1813), by John Morris Flindall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum. (Reeves & Turner, 1880), by William Granger, R. S. Kirby, and James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits (Birmingham, 1903), by Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Arthur B. Chamberlain, Whitworth Wallis, and Joshua Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Sutherland collection (Payne & Foss : P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1837), by Alexander Hendras Sutherland, Charlotte Hussey Sutherland, and Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. (London : Published by Henry Graves & Co., 1865., 1865), by Joshua Reynolds and Henry Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and descriptive catalogue of the pictures, busts, &c. in the National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, W.C. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), Lionel Cust, and George Scharf (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the pictures, models, busts, &c. in the Bodleian gallery and library, Oxford (Printed for the janitor [by] Baxter, printer, 1846), by Bodleian Library and John Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of portraits exhibited in the reading room & gallery of the Bodleian Library : being part of the complete catalogue of Oxford portraits (Printed at the University Press, 1920), by Bodleian Library and Rachael Poole (page images at HathiTrust)

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