Picture Australia is an Internet based
service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial
collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia,
thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted
into the search results.
Picture Australia provides access to images that cover all aspects of
Australiana:
- Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits
- Photographs capture people, places and events
- Objects include sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, weapons
- Images may be in black and white or full colour.
This dataset contains metadata from all participating institutions (except for
those from the State Library of Tasmania).
