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Revision as of 13:00, February 27, 2012
Visual & Material culture
Editorial history
01/12/11, CSG: Restructured heading typeface size
02/01/12, CSG: Changed name of page to Visual and Material culture
Overview
This page is a provisional page addressing potential sources on the visual and material culture of merchants and of related occupations, with the focus on illuminating the visual and material culture of George Oxenden, Elizabeth Dalyson, and their commercial, family, and social circles.
Contents
- 1 Suggested links
- 2 To do
- 3 Copyright
- 3.1 Copyright acknowledgement
- 3.2 Bibliothèque Nationale de France: non-commercial use licence
- 3.3 British History Online user agreement & licence
- 3.4 British Museum standard terms of use licence
- 3.5 Creative Commons licences
- 3.6 Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
- 3.7 GNU Free Documentation License
- 3.8 Museum of London: Copyright & licensing terms
- 3.9 The National Archives, Kew: Copyright & licensing terms
- 3.10 National Portrait Gallery
- 3.11 Pepys Diary Online: use of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license
- 4 Engravings
- 5 Topographical guides
- 6 Public non-commercial sources of images
- 7 Online sellers of engravings
- 8 Cartographic bibliography
Suggested links
See Visual images
To do
Copyright
Copyright acknowledgement
Wikipedia Commons provides a useful anatomy of copyright status for images which are out of copyright in various jurisdictions. See wikipedia commons entry on - Copyright Tags
Bibliothèque Nationale de France: non-commercial use licence
See BNF non-commercial reproduction conditions
British History Online user agreement & licence
British Museum standard terms of use licence
See British Museum standard terms of use licence
The above licence is intended for approved purposes which are exclusively non commercial and:
- Educational;
- Academic;
- Scholarly; or
- Motivated by private interest
The small images referred to above under the BM standard terms of use licence may be incorporated into a website, but not the larger images referred to below' under the free gital image service
See Terms and conditions for free image service
The Museum will also grant a licence to use a larger version of an image subject to additional terms and conditions. These include:
- using images for private purposes in education, teaching, academic study and research
- publishing images in a book, article, thesis or booklet, provided that the publication is non-commercial in purpose, and of an educational, scholarly or academic nature and has a print-run of not more than 4,000
However, these terms and conditions specify: "Images may not be used on any electronic media", though "Images may be cropped but not changed or manipulated in any way without written permission from the British Museum"
There will be no charge for this service, subject to the usage meeting the full terms of use of the free image service
The image will be supplied in JPEG format, with the longest edge at 2,500 pixels, which will appear at a maximum of 21 cm (A5) when printed at 300 dpi. Please note the image may not have been cleaned or colour-managed
You will need to register with your name, address and email address, and give details of the use you will make of the image. It will then be sent to you as an attachment to an email.
Creative Commons licences
See Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) - Broad terms
See Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) - Legal text
See Creation Commons organisation
See Creative Commons licensing of photographs
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
DACS is a not-for-profit visual arts rights management organisation
See: DACS website
GNU Free Documentation License
See GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
- Designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for free works
- "The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially"
- "This License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others"
- "This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software"
- "This License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference"
Museum of London: Copyright & licensing terms
Add licensing terms
The National Archives, Kew: Copyright & licensing terms
The National Archives has a Copyright webpage
See DocumentsOnline license
- Digital copies may only be used for private study and non-commercial research
- Education purposes (in course of instruction or examination, or preparation for instruction or examination)
See National Archives images on Flickr
- Cropping and image manipulation allowed
- Credit TBA and include the catalogue reference
See Crown Copyright & Open Government Licence
See Commercial use
- Print publications with titles of over 200 copies for which cover price charged
- E-books
- Internet republication
See TNA policy on take down and reclosure of public information
National Portrait Gallery
Add licensing terms
Pepysdiary.com, run by Phil Gyford, uses a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license for annotations and articles added by users to the online Enyclopedia and to daily diary entries
See Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license
See Copyright statement for PepysDiary website
Engravings
Engraving sources: East coast of America
Hondius, Jodicus Jr.
- "In 1618 Jodocus Jr. published the important map "Nova Virginiae Tabula" engraved by Dirk Grijp, being the first and most important derivative of John Smith's map of Virginia originally published in 1612. (Burden, America, 193)"[1]
Engraving sources: Brasil
Barlaues (Van Baerle), Casparis, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub praefectura illustrissimi Comitis, ex typographico Ioannis Blaeu (Amsterdam, 1647)
- Full-page engraved portrait, and 56 finely engraved double-page maps, plans and views on 58 sheets
- See Antiquariaat Forum: Rare books: recent acquisitions
Engraving sources: Caribbean islands
Engraving sources: East Indies
Engraving sources: England
Beverell, James, Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne (Leiden, XXXX)
- Published by Pieter van der Aa, Leiden
- See 'Mercers Chappel'; an early uncoloured engraving of Mercers' Hall on Cheapside. Uncoloured. Good condition. This was the first home of Bank Of England in 1694 and the Head Office of the East India Company in 1702. 6 1/4 x 5 inches
Buck, Samuel and Nathaniel, Views of Ruins of Castles & Abbeys in England, vols. ?-? (London, 1726-1739)
- "Samuel & Nathaniel Buck"Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales"[2]
Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 1, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)]
- Deals with places within twenty miles from London
- ?Further volume covers Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey (London & Surrey excepted), Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire
Evans, J., & J. Britton, A new display of the beauties of England, vol. 2, 3rd ed. (London, 1776)
- Deals with places in England further than twenty miles from London
An Italian manuscript published by Mawman as the Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, during the Reign of King Charles the Second (1669) (but published in this form London 1821)
- The text contains a number of views "as delineated at that period by artists in the suite of Cosmo"
Morden, Robert, The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, 2nd edn. (London, 1704)
- Fifty-three copper plates
- Available as Google Free-Eook
Spencer, Nathaniel, The complete English traveller, (London, 1771)
The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands [London: J. Cooke] [1779]
Engraving sources: France
d’Alquie, Francois Savinien, Les Delices de la France, ou Description des Provinces & Villes Capitalles d’icelle: Comme Aussi La Description des Chateaux & Maisons Royalles. Plus Celle des nouvelles Conquetes, avec leurs Figures au naturel, printed in duodecimo by Jaques Moukee, 49 plates (Leiden, 1685)
- See offline out of copyright images (Map of France, Bordeaux, Brest, Dieppe, Geneve, La Rochelle, Lions (Lyons), Marseilles, Nantes, Orleans, Paris, Rouen, Saumur & Tour (others in original text, but not downloaded)
Dallington, Robert, A method for travel. Shewed by taking the view of France as it stoode in the yeare of our Lord 1598 (London, 1606)
Sanson, Nicholas, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683)
Engraving sources: Ottoman Empire
Topographical guides
Public non-commercial sources of images
By far the best source of high quality black and white digital images for non-commercial use on this wiki is the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.bnf.fr[3]
See BNF non-commercial reproduction conditions
Historic cities website, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Images are copyrighted, though the underlying physical documents are out of copyright
- See http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html
Online sellers of engravings
Netherlands based
Gert Jan Bestebrertje Rare Books
- Vianen, the Netherlands
- http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com
- Catalogue 51: Dutch West India Company[4]
Antiquariaat Forum
- t Goy-Houten, the Netherlands
http://www.forumrarebooks.com
UK based
Heatons of Tisbury
- http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk - Heatons of Tisbury
US based
Paulus Swaen, Florida
- http://www.swaen.com
RareCharts, South Carolina
- http://www.rarecharts.com
Cartographic bibliography
Howgego, James, Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850, 2nd ed., Wm. Dawson and Sons, Ltd, Kent, England, 1978 [No. 184].
- John Cary map of London, pre-1818
- Greenwood mao of London, 1827- ↑ http://www.swaen.com/jodocus-hondius-1629.php, viewed 10/01/12
- ↑ http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/buck6.html, viewed 10/01/12
- ↑ http://gallica.bnf.fr
- ↑ http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com/application/uploads/files/Catalogues/List_51_WIC.pdf, viewed 08/01/12
