Browse Drawings On Art Web Sites

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At the Art gallery on this site you can view over sixty beautiful images from old books and magazines at Bedfordshire libraries At 'The Bridgeman library art archive' in Credo on this site you can see colour images of thousands of works of art, including drawings. At the Credo home page click 'Browse topics', then click 'Art', then click 'The Bridgeman Library Art Archive'. Enter the search term 'drawing' The web sites of many major art galleries and museums have online galleries of images, including drawings. For example, at The National Gallery site click 'Collection' and then click any sub-heading link such as 'Beginner's guides' or 'Artists at a glance'. Click each image once or twice to enlarge it Similarly, go to Tate online and click 'Tate Collection' to see works from the Tate Galleries. You can browse by subject or search by artist. For example, try searching for 'Picasso' or 'Constable' Find more such web sites at Gateway > Art, architecture, craft and design > Galleries and museums You can see thousands of images from the British Library's collections, including drawings, at British Library images online. To browse, click 'Subject index' and then click any subject area. Click once or twice on any image to enlarge it If you are interested in cartoons, take a look at the huge collection of British cartoons of social and political comment at CartoonHub, the web site of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature. Click 'Collections' to register free and then search for and view cartoons A smaller online gallery of cartoons is on the web site of Punch magazine, where the Punch gallery displays cartoons on fashion, history and politics, arts and entertainment and more. Click each image to enlarge it and to see the caption Another small selection is at the web site of The Cartoon Museum. Click 'The Collection' to view the online cartoons There are starting points for finding many other web sites on artists and their work at Gateway > Art, architecture, craft and design > Art See also Browse drawings using general search engines and Drawing - try it yourself

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