Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/Image requests

This page is for requesting photos or images for things in or related to the British Library (see the project page GLAM/BL). If you find an image that can be uploaded with a suitable free licence on Commons, please add a link and mark the request as {{done}}.

The image needed may exist somewhere on Wikimedia Commons. Relevant images can be can be found at Commons:Category:British Library. If the image has living people in it, then the guidance of Photographs of identifiable people applies.

The British Library has expressed a willingness to help with supplying some images of an appropriate resolution where possible. Do not hesitate to make requests direct to the Museum if images cannot be found elsewhere, but bear in mind that staff are new to Wikipedia and may be uncertain how to proceed. If you want to take and donate the picture yourself then thank you, but it would be wise to leave the tripod at home and most exhibits in the British Museum will not have photography allowed. Photographing items in the collection is strictly against policy for readers and images created by the British Library reprographics department will automatically have protection by contract, though images that have been provided by other staff may have no copyright applicable. Loading images into commons is best but another site like Flickr is OK as long as the license is attribution only. (Share alike is the only other acceptable addition to a donated picture).

If you are looking for help with the content of a hard to find reference, you may find WP:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request a useful alternative noticeboard.

Further guidance on taking photographs (where permitted) in museums, advice on behaviour and some of the issues with licensing is available at Museum photography.

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International Dunhuang Project

It would be nice to have an image showing staff/scholars working on the International Dunhuang Project, for example a picture of visiting scholars at the British Library examining manuscripts or IDP staff digitising manuscripts. A photo of the late Prof. Ksenia Kepping looking at Tangut manuscripts at the BL would be a bonus as I want to write an article on her next. BabelStone (talk) 01:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done
IDP Digitisation

Ksenia Kepping

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKsenia_Kepping_and_Frances_Wood..jpg

Many more images to follow during and after Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/IDP Vicswift (talk) 16:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! BabelStone (talk) 11:47, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chinchen Collection (Lundy stamp collection)

I have been unable to locate any specific images taken from the Chinchen Collection though some general images of similar postage stamps are available. If the opportunity arose, then images of, say, the tramtickets or key forgery examples would provide a unique insight into the type of artefact in the collection. My understanding would be that Crown Copyright is irrelevant (as the stamps were a private initiative) but I would assume that only fair-use would be available for any images as there might be copyright held by the original designer or their estate. Fæ (talk) 13:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Perkins D cylinder Printing Press.jpg deletion

File:Perkins D cylinder Printing Press.jpg is up for deletion as it is under fair use grounds on Wikipedia when it is a replaceable image. I have uploaded File:Perkins D cylinder printing press in the British Library.jpg and will try to take an alternative shot on Tuesday, but if someone has (or can find) a slightly less blurry free image, now would be a good time to release it on Commons. Fæ (talk) 00:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot my camera at the last minute. A better photo is still needed, you can find the printing press on display by the Philatelic Collections exhibition area (with the Victorian pull-out vertical brass frames) next to the cafe area on the upper-ground floor. There are no restrictions on photography for the printing press. Fæ (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)

It would help this article, specifically about a key BL artefact having appeared on the Wikipedia main page, to have a better image. There is this BL version: http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=011309 which it would be nice if the BL would provide a free release version at a resolution suitable for this article. Fæ (talk) 14:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

With the Mughal exhibition coming up this one is topical again. Nothing was done, though we now have images from the portion in Baltimore. Johnbod (talk) 17:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On the Western Circuit

The four illustrations of 'On the Western Circuit' by Walter Paget from English Illustrated Magazine, December 1891, pp. 275-88 for Sld86 (talk) 15:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Battle of Dorking

Title image for "The Battle of Dorking" from Blackwoods Magazine, May 1874. Cat C.193.B.18

English National Opera

If the Library has and can release a public domain image of the mid-20th century Sadler's Wells Theatre (i.e. the one built c. 1930 and demolished in the 1990s) it would be a great help. Tim riley (talk) 15:29, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Afterthought: a better image of Lilian Baylis than the rather foggy one in the article would be a great treat, too. Tim riley (talk) 18:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gondal (fictional world) and other Bronte articles

This one - http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Resource-Library/Gondal-Poems-by-Emily-Bront%C3%AB-3eb.aspx - and also one or more of the maps of Gondal or Angria. The Land (talk) 23:10, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Such as the image hosted at http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Resource-Library/Map-of-Glass-Town-by-Branwell-Bront%C3%AB-3e9.aspx which is currently claimed as "All rights expressly reserved". Though presumably we could get a even better quality re-scan than this 1MB image and by-pass the issue. Fæ (talk) 13:28, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Royal manuscripts

Westminster Psalter Royal 2 A XXII - We have 3 good images, but it would be nice to have others, especially ones without watermark of ff 12v, 13r, 15r, 116r, 219v, 221r, and any calendar page. Johnbod (talk) 18:22, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Images of the entire ms in the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts entry. BabelStone (talk) 01:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"An Insular Gospel Book", Gospel Book (British Library, MS Royal 1. B. VII), No 1 in the exhibition - no pics at present.

Images of the entire ms in the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts entry. BabelStone (talk) 01:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know, but like all those images they have a watermark (logo) when enlarged (and they are not the entire MS btw). Johnbod (talk) 03:12, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bedford Hours/Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Hi! Could it be possible to import 3 new images from the Bedford hours (Add18850) ? I would like to improve the page on the Très Riches Heures (in wp:fr) to mention 3 miniatures in the BL ms inspired by the limbourg bros : 75r (adoration) 144r (crucifixion) & 245v (deposition). Thanks a lot ! Mel22 (talk) 22:13, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]