PRESCRIBED WORKS OF ART 2023/24
SUGGESTED DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR PRINTS AND DRAWINGS: MUSEUM CATALOGUES
ArtStor: https://library.artstor.org/#/login
Online collection of different international museums. Free access granted through solo
British Museum, London: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
Enormous collection of works on paper, almost all of it digitised. Difficult to zoom in on images. Brief but informative biography on most printmakers, sometimes accompanied by a bibliography.
Europeana: https://www.europeana.eu/en
Digital collection of a number of European public museums. Most helpful when searching for works by specific artists.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/the-collection
Very good online catalogue with high resolution images. Excellent for zooming in on. Not all images have been digitised.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
High resolution images, and well-researched catalogue notes (although google translate is usually needed as the text is mostly in Dutch).
IMAGE LIBRARIES: ART HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES (for the wikipedia entry on Photo Archives, click here)
RKD, The Hague: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images
While mainly focused on Dutch and Flemish works of art, they have a small collection of Italian prints and drawings, some of which are digitised.
The Warburg Photographic Collection, London: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/photographic-collection/using-the-photographic-collection
Arranged according to subject matter. A helpful resource when trying to contextualise
The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/category/the-witt-library/
Unfortunately most of the Witt remains undigitised. For anyone living or spending time in London, it’s worth visiting. Images are divided into folders according to artist.
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