Art History: Research Tools: British Sales (1680–1780) Data Now Available in the Getty Provenance Index
From the Getty Research Institute:
The Getty Provenance Index now includes data for British sales from 1680–1780, a period when London was beginning to establish itself as a hub of the international art trade.
This release—which completes Phase II of a larger collaborative research project between the Getty’s Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance and the National Gallery, London—adds a further 137,780 records from 1,085 catalogs to the index, bringing the total number of records in the British Sales database to over 450,000.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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