BRITISH MUSEUM BRINGS HOLDINGS TO WEB

Three weeks ago, the British Museum quietly launched its comprehensive website of what it calls flat art. Including works by everyone from Rembrandt to Hockney, the website archives the museum’s enormous collection of prints and drawings, reports The Guardian‘s James Fenton. The drawings, fifty thousand of them, have all been catalogued; the prints, by no means. It is hard to say how many of them there are. There is a collection of a third of a million bookplates yet to be tackled. There are large untapped resources—for instance, French satiric prints—that have not been published elsewhere in any form and will now become searchable.