Jenny’s Art, Design and Architecture blog: High Resolution Wellcome Images free to download and use
High Resolution Wellcome Images free to download and use
Wellcome has
just announced over 100,000 high
resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early
photography and advertisements are now freely available to be used for commercial
or personal purposes under a Creative Commons licence if accompanied by an acknowledgement of the
original source (Wellcome Library, London). The images can be downloaded in
high-resolution directly from the Wellcome Images website to be freely copied, distributed, edited,
manipulated and built upon for personal or commercial use. The images range
from ancient medical manuscripts to etchings by artists such as Vincent
Van Gogh and Francisco
Goya. Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, says “Together the
collection amounts to a dizzying visual record of centuries of human culture,
and our attempts to understand our bodies, minds and health through art and
observation. Using the advanced search
you can search the collection by a huge range of different techniques including
etching, ultrasound, silver gelatin print and my all-time favourites; the exquisitely lovely 300+ transmission
electron micrographs.
