British Museum Prints And Drawings Database. The images on this page give a broad sense of the span of the British Museums collection from the 1400s until today. Hide menu BM Satires Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Also known as BM Satires Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum BM Satires Authoreditor Stephens.
The Department of Prints and Drawings holds one of the worlds greatest works on paper collections. In general the prints and drawings collections have been perceived as divided up between the British Museum and the British Library according to whether the images were valued as autonomous art or formed supporting evidence for largely text-based research. The Librarys Prints and Drawings collection contains more t books and periodicals pertaining to Western prints and drawings.
British Museum Images is the definitive source for high-quality imagery of the British Museum Collections.
American Friends of the British Museum Secondary navigation. The following 7 files are in this category out of 7 total. Conservation Mounter David Giles discusses the conservation preparations for these two very different exhibitions. Yesterday I highlighted the problems with accessing the Virtual Gallery of the Prints and Drawings held in the permanent collection of the British Museum.
