Digital Primary Sources
Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Mme. De Sévigné." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-2fb9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
- EuropeanaNearly 50 million digital objects from across Europe, including historical books, manuscripts, portraits and artworks.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaOver 11 million items from libraries, museums, and archives, including many European items.
- Gallica. Bibliotheque National de FranceOver 80,000 digital images of photographs, prints, drawings, maps, manuscripts, books, and other materials documenting the history and culture of France.
- NYPL Digital CollectionsOver 600,000 digitized items from the New York Public Library's collections.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [Gale] 1701-1800 This link opens in a new windowIncludes every significant English- and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- WikiMedia Commons"a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all."
Major Art Image Databases
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowNote: Artstor will soon be migrating to Jstor! If you use Artstor to upload or manage images,
you can read more about the change here, or contact the Imaging Center.
This resource includes more than two million images. It includes collections specific to Smith College developed to meet teaching needs in the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as images of works from the Smith College Museum. Using Artstor provides information about searching as well as using images in papers and presentations.
Major Art Museum Collections Online
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)250,000+ images with documentation of works in the MMA collection including extensive holdings of 18th-century costumes, furnishings, paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.
- Victoria & Albert MuseumCollections are especially rich in decorative arts including furniture and furnishings, textiles, and costume (see special section on 18th-century Fashion)
- J. Paul Getty Museum/Getty Research Institute Open Content ImagesMore than 10,000 images from Getty holdings across the institution. Includes "drawings and watercolors, artists’ sketchbooks, rare prints from the 16th through the 18th century" with excellent documentation of the Getty decorative arts collections.
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