Written by Gavin Moulton (Class of 2020) As a student assistant in the Fine Arts Library, I spent the Spring semester diving into the prints of the library’s recently acquired Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Orientalist Prints. This collection is an unparalleled resource for the study of Western and Central European perceptions of the Ottoman…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection – Part 5. Overview: Islamic Art in Private Collections
This post is the fifth in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Alice West. The importance of our open access Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South…
Announcement: Explore our Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection!
You’re invited to share in a project with us here at the Harvard Fine Arts Library: a digital humanities game using images of Islamic and South Asian art, with the chance to win an art publication of your choice, worth up to $150 USD! For more information about The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection, see…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection – Pt. 2
Written by Bronwen Gulkis This post is the second in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Before the widespread availability of high-quality digital images, patrons at the Fine…