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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Visit to a Lawyer, Pen and brown ink, with brown and brown-black wash, over black chalk, on laid paper, 1791 (New York: The Morgan Library & Museum). More information is available here»

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As noted by Lucy Vivante at her blog Vivante Drawings (7 July 2014), The Morgan recently launched its Drawings Online, with 2000 images now available and the entire collection of 12,000 scheduled to be available by the end of the year. In addition to the scholarly value, there must also be useful teaching possibilities. –CH

From The Morgan Library & Museum:

Georg Dionysius Ehret, Chenopodium bonus henricus, watercolor on vellum (New York: The Morgan Library & Museum).

For nearly a century, the Morgan Library & Museum has played a leading role in the field of master drawings. All the major European schools are represented in the collection, with particular strengths in Italian, French, British, Dutch, Flemish, and German masters. The collection also includes drawings by American artists as well as a growing number of modern and contemporary works on paper. The Morgan’s collection is thus unusual in that it represents, in increasing depth, continuity as well as innovation throughout the entire history of drawing.

Drawings Online aims to provide the public and specialists with a digital library of over 12,000 images, representing works of art spanning the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. Included are approximately 2,000 images of versos of drawings that contain rarely seen sketches or inscriptions by the artist. Debuting on 15 June 2014 with nearly 2,000 images, Drawings Online will provide comprehensive imaging of the Morgan’s drawing collection by the end of the year.

Drawings Online is generously underwritten by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, with additional funding from the David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation.