Art History: Large Image Collections
(WWW-VL)
Art History Resources on the Web
(Chris Witcombe)
The Art of William Hogarth
Described as ‘a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work’, the quality of the images is very good and it’s easy to navigate (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Artchive
Extensive and wide-ranging resource for images and information about artists (Mark Harden)
Artpix
An excellent art resource: 15th/16th-century Netherlandish and 17th-century Dutch painters, and some Italian renaissance (Bernard Huyvaert) (NB: Wayback Archive: I cannot guarantee that all the images will have been archived)
Artserve
a huge database (130,000) images with a strong Renaissance/early modern presence (Australian National University)
English Caricature Prints 1720-1820
A useful resource (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
The Hogarth Archive
A substantial collection of images let down by its lack of aids to navigation (University of Wales, Lampeter)
The Last Supper in Detail
high-quality digitised version of The Last Supper (HAL9000)
A nation of shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s
Website of a 2001 Bodleian exhibition, focusing on the development of printed trade cards and similar materials, with many images of examples (Bodleian Library)
National Gallery Permanent Collection online
The London National Gallery’s permanent collection of western European paintings spans the period from about 1250 to 1900
National Portrait Gallery
Online search facility for the British national gallery’s collections
Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
searchable database of images: from African societies to New World auctions, as well as maps, and photos of a recent archaeological dig of a West Indies plantation (Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite)
The Web Gallery of Art
A vast virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture c.1150-1750
The William Blake Archive
a site providing high-quality electronic editions of Blake’s work, which aims to incorporate as much of both his pictorial and literary works as possible, to “give scholars and students access to the major intersections between the illuminated books and Blake’s other creative and commercial works” (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
