As many museums, galleries, and other art institutions race into the technological and digital age, the public reaps the benefits. Yale University’s Center for British Art recently added 22,000 images to its digital library — which is available to the public. That brings the total number to….
 
Sixty-nine thousand. That’s how many high-resolution images are now available to the public via Yale University’s Center for British Art, and they include some of the most exquisite and beautiful works ever to emerge from the British Isles. Works by William Blake, Thomas Rowlandson, Joseph Mallord William Turner, and countless others are included in the collection.
 
The images come in a variety of formats for use in different ways. From display-sized jpegs to ultra-high-resolution TIFF files, the online collection is sure to satisfy and embellish any project.
 
Interested in beginning your digital journey through the collections? Visit the Yale Center for British Art.
 
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Andrew Webster is the former Editor of Fine Art Today and worked as an editorial and creative marketing assistant for Streamline Publishing. Andrew graduated from The University of North Carolina at Asheville with a B.A. in Art History and Ceramics. He then moved on to the University of Oregon, where he completed an M.A. in Art History. Studying under scholar Kathleen Nicholson, he completed a thesis project that investigated the peculiar practice of embedded self-portraiture within Christian imagery during the 15th and early 16th centuries in Italy.

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