Enter your search term, or terms, and browse the results. You can search on names, subjects, keywords, materials etc.

Some general examples are:

• horse and rider
• 'walking horse'
• pissarro haymaking
• annunciation oil painting
• virgin mary
• ((virgin and child) or ('mary magdalene')) and oil painting

Paintings, Drawing and Prints

Notes: Artist names are stored as 'surname, first names' so it is always better to search for surname or 'surname, first name*'

Examples:

• monet painting (although monet alone would be fine)
• blake drawing
• 'Robinson, Frederick*'

Coins and Medals

Examples:

• coins 'roman republic' (coins from the roman republic series)
• coins roman (coins generally with a roman* match)
• 'hop token' (tokens from the subsubseries Hop Token)
• '17th-century tokens'

Advanced options:

• The keyword or can be used to stop the default search behaviour of two words (terms) in the field being logically 'and'ed during the search.
• The keyword not can also be used to explicity remove a term from the results.
• The keyword and can be used - it is generally the default behaviour so is redundant by itself but can be used with not (i.e. and not)
• You can single or double quote words (terms) or phrases. This can have one of two effects:
  Specific term matching. Normally terms are loosely matched (e.g. cat will match cat, catalunya, catich etc) where as a quoted single term will cause an exact match e.g 'cat' will only match cat. To use quotes and maintain loose matching use a wildcard e.g 'cat*'.
  This is quite important for artist names (which are treated as single terms) where the form 'surname, firstname*' is most accurate.
  Phrase (word) searching. Phrase searching is quite loose. Behind the scenes what actually happens is a search that checks that all the words within the quotes exist within a single field, but not necessarily in the order you specify. i.e. you will get record matches that contain all the words in the quoted phrase but not necessarily the exact phrase (in order).
• Parentheses can be used to change the precedence of search order.
  e.g. parrot or (dog and cat) or
  (degas or monet) and painting

Fields currently searched:

• Artist/Maker
• Collection
• Description
• Material
• Object Category
• Object Name
• Object Number
• Technique
• Title
• Translated Title