Judith Colton

In the 1970s, Colton conducted research into Queen Caroline and British aristocracy, and published papers such as "Kent's Hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond" in Architectura (1974),^[3] and "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda" in Eighteenth-Century Studies (1976).^[4]

One of her best known works is The Parnasse Franc̈ois: Titon Du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius (1979), a study of Évrard Titon du Tillet.^[5] In 1987 she was a contributor to the book A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America: 1650-1750, which included commentary on late Baroque painter and printmaker Luca Giordano.^[6]

• "The Endymion Myth and Poussin's Detroit Painting", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 30: 426–431, 1967, doi:10.2307/750763, JSTOR 750763.
• "Kent's hermitage for Queen Caroline at Richmond", Architectura, 4: 181–191, 1974
• "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10 (1): 1–20, 1976, doi:10.2307/2737814, JSTOR 2737814. Winner of the James L. Clifford Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for 1977–1978.^[7]
• The Parnasse François: Titon du Tillet and the Origins of the Monument to Genius. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.^[8][9][10]
• A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650–1750, eds. J. Colton and G. Hersey. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987.^[11]