Select Illustration for illustrations and figures.
Select A to Z to display lists in alphabetical order
Click on the magnifying glass icon to display results
To select a field click on the drop-down menu In the field
Everywhere searches in every field (Illustration Caption, Artists, Media, Classification)
Illustration Caption searches for words from all illustration captions in the Burlington Magazine
Artists searches for all the artists and schools related to the illustrations in the Burlington Magazine
Media searches for all media and materials associated with the indexed illustrations of the magazine
Classification limits the search to Attributed and Unattributed works
Artists can be refined by the dropdown list Filter by: artist/by, artist/after, artist/attributed to, artist/circle of, artist/design by, artist/firm, artist/formerly attributed to, artist/imitator of, artist/mark of, artist/photographer, artist/publisher, artist/school of, artist/style of, artist/tentatively attributed to, artist/with pupils, artist/workshop of, school
A search for Artists can be linked to the Getty ULAN Thesaurus to cover alternative spellings of artists names. To use this option, tick in the ULAN box under Thesaurus.
Searches in the field Classification can be refined by clicking on Find and choosing from the drop-down menu
Classification can be refined by clicking on Filter By and choosing Attributed works, Western Art Unattributed or Non-Western Art Unattributed works.
Prints after Rembrandt (artist/after)
All masks in non-western art unattributed
To search for all prints after Rembrandt:
In the field: choose Artists
Filter by: select Artist/after
Search terms: type Rembrandt
This will result in every work of art after Rembrandt
Add another search criteria by clicking on the add condition icon (a cross):
In the field: select Media
Word or Phrase: type Prints
This will result in prints after Rembrandt.
How to proceed
To search for non-western art masks
In the field: choose Media
Search terms; type masks
This will result in every mask in the Burlington Magazine illustrations
Add another search criteria by clicking on the Add condition icon (a cross):
In the field: select Classification
Under Filter by: select Non western art unattributed
This will result in all non-western unattributed masks.
Enter your term followed by an asterisk (*). For example, entering ‘Archit*' would return results for all records containing words beginning with ‘Archit', such as ‘Architect', 'Architects', ‘Architecture', and ‘Architectural'.
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