Consists of a variety of items (many oversized, matted and/or framed) by William Blake, Max Beerbohm, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, Edward Lear, John Everett Millais, William Makepeace Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. M. W. Turner, members of the Brontë family, and others. Robert Taylor collected works by or relating to British authors, artists, and illustrators represented elsewhere in the Taylor Collection, both in manuscripts and printed books. Most of the artwork is individually matted and labeled in a series of 17 clamshell boxes, organized alphabetically by artist and size. An oil portrait of Alexander Pope, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745), is separately housed.

Additional artwork can be found in RTC01's bound manuscripts series, including an album of sketches and drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray; Lionel Grimston Fawkes's 1874-1875 scrapbook of illustrations for Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now; India paper proofs of drawings for "Orley Farm" by John Everett Millais, circa 1860; an 1868 album of pen-and-ink drawings and photographs compiled by John Lockwood Kipling for a young Rudyard Kipling and his sister; and additional drawings by Max Beerbohm. Artwork can also be found in archival boxes containing literary manuscripts and correspondence, including letters with drawings by Edward Lear, William Makepeace Thackeray, and William Butler Yeats.