Provides references to museum collection websites where over 7,000 artists' works of art can be viewed. Most of the fine artists specialise in painting and sculpture but other artistic media are covered. Searching is by artist or movement. The articles library is a subscription library.
Recommended for: Images Artists Exhibitions
Look at art that’s in public ownership in the UK and search for specific artworks or artists.
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Website containing art from over 3,000 UK public art collections.
Mainly oil paintings but they’re adding watercolours and works on paper, with the nation’s sculpture planned to join soon.
Art UK also commissions and writes about artists, artworks, exhibitions and the stories behind paintings, from the world famous to the obscure.
Art UK is the successor to Your Paintings. It is a joint initiative between the Public Catalogue Foundation (now known as Art UK), 3,000 museums and other art collections, and the BBC.
GalleriesNow.net is a global survey of contemporary art exhibitions. It features over 200 public and commercial galleries from around the world. Browse by date, by gallery or artist.
Recommended for: Images
Images from the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute for use without fees or restriction.
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Digital images of paintings, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, antiquities, sculpture, decorative arts, artists' sketchbooks, watercolours, rare prints from the 16th through the 18th century, and 19th-century architectural drawings of cultural landmarks.
Photographs of the art and architecture of Italy over 30 years by German photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1913–1988).
The Getty holds the rights or the rights are in the public domain.
No permission is required if you want to reuse an image, but you should attribute the Getty.
Recommended for: Primary sources Images
Rare archival materials documenting everyday life in 18th-20th Century Britain.
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Scanned documents from the John Johnson collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.
Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.
The Illustrations Archive makes available a fully searchable index of over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s eighteenth and nineteenth century collection. All book images which appear on this site have been declared "Public Domain" by the British Library, and as such are considered to be free from copyright restrictions.
Contains images of the most influential characters in British history. It is possible to search for a picture by sitter, artist, or portrait. There are copyright restrictions on some pictures.
The photographs on ViewFinder date from the 1850s and are held in the English Heritage Archive. A resource for people interested in England's social, industrial, architectural and archaeological history.
Recommended for: Encyclopedia Images
Online art encyclopedia and dictionary. Useful for defining art terminology and describing major themes in art history and design. Also includes biographical information on artists and designers, as well as images.
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Our subscription includes Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Recommended for: Cartoons Images
National collection of socio-political cartoons from British newspapers and magazines, plus comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.
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Free website, no log in required to access. You may be required to log in to download high-quality images; tell the site you are from Manchester Metropolitan University when prompted and log in with your University username and password.
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Provided by the University of Kent, the British Cartoon Archive is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The archive has over 200,000 cartoon images, dating from 1904 to the present day. Different versions of the same cartoon from sketch to artwork to published versions can be found. You can search by artist, subjects, or people depicted in the cartoons.
Recommended for:Artist profiles
Database of contemporary British art and artists.
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National online resource containing the Axis directory, a searchable online directory of over 3,000 selected artists. Artist entries contain biographical information, images, audio, video, events, and news.
Recommended for: Magazine articles Images Advertisements
The entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day.
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High-resolution colour page images.
Conduct searches to reveal results in all text, captions and titles throughout the magazine, including advertisements, covers and foldouts.
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Includes the latest issue each month with no embargo period.
Provides access to the image collections of the Visual Resources Centre at the Manchester School of Art. Follow the Flickr link to access the Visual Resources Centre's images of Manchester, the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Manchester School of Art.
