Art History: Primary Sources

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Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections, a virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections.

A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

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