Rediscovering prints at the British Library

Abstract

Although still relatively little-known and under-utilised, the collections of prints and drawings at the British Library are the nation’s largest, with particular strengths in 17th - to 19th -century British and European art. The vast majority of these artworks are contained within items in our ‘Western’ book, map, and manuscript collections. They are currently not well-described in our catalogues, and several mistaken assumptions still prevail.