'Picturing Places' at the British Library
May 1 2017
Video: BL
The British Libray has launched a new section on its website, 'Picturing Places', which allows you to:
Discover the role and history of topographical views, maps and texts through over 500 examples from the British Library’s collections and beyond, with fresh research in over 100 articles and films from an academic conference hosted by the British Library and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Above is a video of BL staff digitising a giant map. More here.
Categories
- Research
- Exhibitions
- Auctions
- Discoveries
- Conservation
- Heroes of art history
- 15th Century & Earlier
- 16th Century
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 21st Century