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Bibliography of books on drawings, watercolours and prints

Paul Sandby, Windsor Castle from Datchey Lane on a rejoicing night, 1768, RCIN 914584©

Italian Drawings - General

A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1949; reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1984, with Appendix by R. Wood)

O. Kurz, Bolognese Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1955; reprinted by Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1988 with new Appendix by H. McBurney)

A.F. Blunt and H.L. Cooke, The Roman Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1960)

A.F. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1957)

E. Schilling and A.F. Blunt, The German Drawings and Supplements to the Catalogues of Italian and French Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1971)

Italian - Single artists

K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1948; reprinted by Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1990, with Appendix by C. Crawley)

J. Pope-Hennessy, The Drawings of Domenichino in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1948)

R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, (Phaidon 1952)

A.F. Blunt, The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione and Stefano della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1954)

K. Clark and C. Pedretti, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci at Windsor Castle. 3 vols (Phaidon, 1968-69)

A. Braham and H. Hager, Carlo Fontana: The Drawings at Windsor Castle (Zwemmer, 1977)

D. Mahon and N. Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

T. J. Standing and M. Clayton, Castiglione: Lost Genius (Royal Collection, 2013)

The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Series A: Antiquities and Architecture

J. Osborne and A. Claridge, Early Christian and Medieval Antiquities Volume 1: Mosaics and Wallpaintings in Roman Churches  (Harvey Miller, 1996)

J. Osborne and A. Claridge, Early Christian and Medieval Antiquities. Volume 2: Other Mosaics, Sarcophagi and Small Objects (Harvey Miller, 1998)

H. Whitehouse, Ancient Mosaics and Wallpaintings (Harvey Miller, 2001)

W. Stenhouse, Ancient Inscriptions (Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2002)

I. Campbell et al., Ancient Roman Topography and Architecture (3 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2004)

A. Claridge and I. Herklotz, Classical Manuscript Illustrations (Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2012)

P. Davies and D. Hemsoll with S. Pepper, Renaissance and Later Architecture and Ornament (2 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2013)

E. Vaiani and A. Claridge, The ‘Antichità Diverse’ Album (Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2016)

E. Vaiani, S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinò and H. Whitehouse, Egyptian and Roman Antiquities and Renaissance Decorative Arts, (2 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2018)

Series B: Natural History

D. Freedberg and E. Baldini, Citrus Fruit (Harvey Miller, 1997)

A. Scott and D. Freedberg, Fossil Woods and other Geological Specimens (Harvey Miller, 2000)

D. Pegler and D. Freedberg, Fungi (3 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2006)

F. Garbari and L. Tongiorgi Tomasi, Flora: The 'Erbario Miniato' and Other Drawings (2 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2007)

M. Clayton, L. Guerrini and A. de Avila, Flora: The Aztec Herbal (Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2009)

B. Elliott with L. Guerrini and D. Pegler, Flora: Federico Cesi’s Botanical Manuscripts (3 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2015)

H. McBurney, I. Rolfe, C. Napoleone, P. Findlen et al, Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities (2 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2017)

Series C: Prints

M. McDonald, Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre (3 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2017)

M. McDonald, Architecture, Topography and Military Maps (3 vols, Royal Collection/Harvey Miller, 2019)

Northern European Drawings - General

A.P. Oppé, English Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1950)

Delia Millar, The Victorian Watercolours in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen (Philip Wilson Publishers, 1995)

A.E. Haswell Miller and N.P. Dawnay, Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1966 and 1970)

C. White and C. Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

A.F. Blunt, The French Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1945)

E. Schilling and A.F. Blunt, The German Drawings and Supplements to the Catalogues of Italian and French Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1971)

Single artists

K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1945; reprinted Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1983, with Appendix by S.Foister)

P. Leith-Ross, The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal (Royal Collection, 2000)

A.P. Oppé, The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle (Phaidon, 1947)


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