Apologies for cross
posting

We are pleased to announce that the Royal Academy of Arts Collection website
has gone live and can be viewed at

www.royalacademy.org.uk/collection

The website will continue to grow and develop as more works in the
Collection are catalogued and digitised. As more content is added, advanced
searching capabilities will be developed, enabling users to explore and view
the Academy's collection of paintings, sculptures, plaster casts, drawings,
prints, historic photographs, archives and historic books online.

Any comments or feedback about the site will be gratefully received.
Regards, Adam

Further information:
For the first time in its history, the Royal Academy's Collection will be
widely accessible to the public.  As part of the ambitious project to
conserve, photograph, digitise and catalogue its unique collection of
British art, a selection of works can now be viewed on the RA website. 

The RA's Collection is a little known national treasure, which includes some
850 paintings, 350 sculptures, 16,000 prints, drawings and photographs, as
well as rare books and archives, silver and a large number of architectural
plaster casts.  The Collection focuses predominantly on British art and
architecture from the 18th century to the present day, and highlights
include major works by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, Flaxman,
Millais, Leighton, Waterhouse, Spencer and Hockney.

Visitor www.royalacademy.org.uk/collection to view a selection of the many
works in the Collection and learn more about the artists and individual art
works represented.  The vast majority of works from the Collection are not
on public display and this first phase of cataloguing will allow access to
some 350 rarely seen works.  

The project has been funded through the New Opportunities Fund's £50 million
UK wide digitisation programme which is designed to enable the learning
materials and resources currently contained in galleries, communities,
libraries, museums, universities and other centres of excellence, to be
directly accessible to homes and communities via the Internet. 

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Adam Waterton
Head of Library Services
Royal Academy of Arts Library
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD

Direct tel: 020 7300 5740
Direct fax: 020 7300 5765
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http://www.royalacademy.org.uk




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