LibGuides: Digital Images: Museums and Archives Images Collections

Museums and Archives Images Collections

Ad* Access - Duke University
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Europeana Collections
Images from all over Europe.
Getty Images
A free large professional-quality photo service. Users must employ an embed tool, which will generate HTML code that can be pasted into a website or blog.
Google Art Project
A collaboration between Google and 151 art partners allowing for the exploration of over 150 collections from 40 countries.
Library of Congress - Digital Collections (American Memory)
Free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
National Archives Digital Photography Collections
An annotated list of links to various digital photography collections, both within the National Archives, as well as external collections.
National Gallery of Art
A repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. More than 22,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use.
New York Public Library - Picture Collection
Presents digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Rumsey Visual Collections
Digital image collections from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world.
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900).

National Gallery of Art

Artist: Pierre Joseph Redouté.
Artist Info: French, 1759 – 1840.
Title: A Bouquet of Flowers with Insects.
Medium: Watercolor with gold on vellum; laid down.
Classification: Drawing.
Dimensions: Sheet: 25.3 x 17.2 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.) support: 28.3 x 22.3 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.).
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Accession No: 1988.12.1.
Digitization: Rapid Capture.
Image Use: Open Access.