Research Guides: Art (Studio Arts): Images for Reference and Inspiration

Anatomical Images

e-Skeletons
University of Texas, interactive site for skeletal anatomy, osteology
Gray's Anatomy
Historical Anatomies on the Web
Line of Action: Draw
Timed drawing practice with a wide range of reference images.
NYPL Animal Anatomy
Veterinary Anatomical Illustration

Cooper Hewitt Collections
Product design and decorative arts, prints and drawings, wallcoverings, textiles.
Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
New York Public Library.
Shedding Light on New York
Smithsonian Libraries. Images of metal lamps, chandeliers, lighting fixtures.
Below the Surface
Remarkable digital collection of 700,000 objects excavated from the riverbed of the River Amstel in Amsterdam. Objects date from pre-history to 2005.

Dream Anatomy
National Library of Medicine
Instruments for Science, 1800-1914
Smithsonian Libraries. Trade catalogs with description and illustration of scientific instruments.
Morbid Anatomy
Seeing is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
New York Public Library.