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Citing Images

Images or illustrations can enhance your papers and presentations. Like written sources, images also need to be properly cited. Always indicate, or cite where you found the image. Here are examples of the information needed to identify the source of an image.



An image of an object
in a museum


cerberus

Artist's Name (First and Last)
Title and Date
Museum Name and Location
Image Source and ID Number


Example:

Andokides Painter
Neck-Handled Amphora: Herakles & Cerberus, Ca. 510 B.C.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
ARTstor: UCSD_41822000405785



An image from ARTstor

geese

 

Title of the Work
Artist's Name (First and Last)
Date of the Work
Image Source
Date of Citation
Electronic Database


Example
:
Three Geese. Simon de Vlieger, c. 1600-1653.
The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 1, Netherlandish Artists.
[cited 22 October 2004].
In ARTstor [database online].


 

An image from a Web Site

haystacks

Title of the Work
Artist's Name (First and Last)
Date of the Work
Image Source
Date of Citation
URL


Example:
Haystacks. Claude Monet. (Effect of Snow and Sun) 1891. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [cited 5 June 2008]

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

images/ht/ht_29.100.109.jpg


 
 

 
Images

Increasingly research involves locating images for analysis, documentation, illustration and inspiration. This guide will present scholarly and commercial sources available on line and through the web suggested by the Boston College Libraries to locate a wide variety of visual materials.

We are always open to your suggestions. Please submit your recommended sites by commenting below.


 

 
Examples of Images

 

Womenvoting

 

Women Voting from
Core 4 Collection of Images
Brooklyn College History Department

ship

Americae Nova Tabula (1645)
by Willem Blaeu
from ARTstor

baseball

Clay Buchholz
2007 from Getty Images

david
David
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
from Art Images for College
Teaching (AICT)

 
 

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