Digital library of British printed images to 1700

This project will provide online access to some of the most vivid images that have come down to us from early modern Britain - namely, the entire collection of 16th and 17th century British prints in the British Museum. This is currently only partially catalogued and difficult to access. To this will be added a full corpus of engraved title-pages from the period. Scanned images of this material will be presented in annotated and fully searchable form on a purpose-built website. The project will also promote research on prints and their relationship to books and to the culture of the period.