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> VADS is pleased to announce the launch of a new online collection
>
> The John Johnson Collection is a large and diverse collection of printed
> ephemera documenting social and typographic history from 1508-1939.
> Approximately 2,500 items from this collection are available online from
> the
> Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) having been digitised as part of the JISC
> Image Digitisation Initiative (JIDI).
>
> The digital resource focuses on two main areas of the collection:
> Political
> and Satirical Prints and Trades and Professions. These collections cover
> mainly the 18th and 19th centuries and provide a unique, and often
> humorous,
> look into the social, political and economic history of that time
> incorporating themes such as the Monarchy and constitution, radicalism and
> reform and a nation at war. The images are illustrated, in some cases, by
> famous artists such as James Gillray, Isaac Cruickshank and Thomas
> Rowlandson, and many are in colour.
>
> John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956) formed the collection after being
> inspired by his work as a papryologist in Egypt. He subsequently worked as
> Printer to Oxford University Press from 1925 to 1946 while continuing to
> add
> to his collection. Then in 1968, the entire collection, now numbering in
> excess of a million items, was transferred to the Bodleian Library where
> it
> remains today.
>
> The collection is searchable online from: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
>
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Lara Whitelaw
Visual Arts Data Service Resources Officer
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College,
Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7DS
Tel: 01252 892721
Fax: 01252 892725
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk
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