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General Information
The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection
presents images from the Library's collections.
The current focus of the Digital Collection is the Library's
world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political
satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth
centuries. Material is added regularly, with upcoming additions
of works by Bunbury; drawings by Woodward, Gillray, Rowlandson
and Newton, among others; and non-satirical prints. Further
works to be added to the Digital Collection over the next year
or so include prints, drawings, and watercolors related to
Horace Walpole's collection and house at Strawberry Hill.
The nearly 10,000 digital images are presented
through technology developed by the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library and have been processed by Luna Imaging
to enable users to examine each image in minute detail. This
ongoing project to provide increased access to the Library's
rich holdings will, in time, include full catalog records available
through Orbis for each item and will take advantage of Luna
Imaging's Insight software to allow users to manage and work
with the images online.
The Library does not require registration
to view the images in the Digital Collection. The Library's
policy and information on copyright and photoduplication of
the images are available at:
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html.
It is necessary to obtain authorization to
use images from the Digital Collection and to notify the Library
when links are made to the site.
Search Tips
The information about each image in the Walpole Digital Collection
now includes:
- Brief (often incomplete) title
- Artist, if known
- The Lewis Walpole Library call number
A Keyword query searches these fields for exact matches of
the word(s) entered.
Because the information accompanying the images is limited
to title, artist, notes indicating the volume in which the
work is found, call number, and unique identifying number, searching
is limited to keyword and call number.
Words in the title are spelled as they appear
on the print.
Searching for a particular subject of a print
is successful only so far as the search term appears as one
of the words in the title, artist's name, or notes.
Keyword searches can be broadened to include
any or all of the words entered.
Certain words, including articles, prepositions,
and symbols, cause problems in keyword searches and will result
in an error message.
With a Call Number query it is possible to
find images by date of publication because the first element
of a print’s call number is the last three digits of
the date of publication (e.g., “760” for a publication
date of 1760).
Planning is underway to include much more
data in future versions of the Digital Collection; complete
artist, title, and publication information, as well as subject
terms and British Museum Catalog references, will be available
and will be searchable.
Meanwhile, new images are added each month
to the present version.
Other Digital Collections at Yale:
Additional information about locating, searching and working
with digital image collections:
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