• Introduction
• Search the Welsh Landscape collection
• County Galleries
• Subject Galleries
• Artists Galleries
• How the images were digitised
• How to obtain copies

 

 

Choose to search the Welsh Landscape Collection

 

To limit your search to the Welsh Landscape collection you must first choose the Welsh Landscape option from the drop down list underneath the keyword search boxes. 

 

 

Viewing search results

 

Once you have made your search a Search Results page will display thumbnail images of your results together with details of the creator, title and date of the item. To view a larger image you should click on the thumbnail image and the browser will display the larger image in a new window. To return to the Search Result page you should click on the 'Back' button on your browser.

 

 

Searching again

 

To begin a new search remember to choose the Welsh Landscape option from the drop-down list underneath the keyword search boxes on the e-Resources page if you wish to limit your search once again.

 

 

Searching the Welsh Landscape Collection by subject

 

To search for prints by particular subjects you should remember that there are 4 key categories of subjects indexed: personal name, corporate name, place name and topic.

 

Personal name

 

If you are looking for prints by a particular atrist you can do this by entering the person's name in the usual order; this is true even if a person does not use a surname or has a compound surname. You should use the form of the name by which the person is best known.

 

Examples of a name search
SEARCH Samuel Buck
SEARCH John Williams
(Remember that it is a keyword search and any record which contains the words "John" and "Williams" will be retrieved so you might get results which are not relevant to your request.)

 

Corporate name

 

A corporate name covers a wide variety of named subjects such as commercial companies, musical groups, political parties, governments, castles, &c. But you should not worry if you don't know to which category your search belongs because the search will be made across all the categories. The process of searching for corporate names is similar to the search for personal names - enter the name you are looking for in direct order.

 

Examples of a corporate name search
SEARCH Llandaff Cathedral
SEARCH Cardiff Castle
(This search will retrieve all bibliographic records which include the index term "Cardiff Castle", but remember it will also retrieve all bibliographic records which contain the words "Cardiff" and "castle").

 

 

Place name

 

Place names appear in the bibliographic record as they do in the Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 gazetteer. This means that you should normally search for the English or Anglicised form of the place name and not its Welsh form, but in some cases where the Welsh form is the preferred Ordnance Survey form, that form should be used in searching.

 

Examples of a place name search

SEARCH Aberdare

(This search will retrieve all bibliographic records where the word "Aberdare" appears, but that includes all bibliographic records where it is indexed as a place name.)

SEARCH Swansea

 

Topical

 

In topical indexing the Library of Congress's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (lctgm) has been used as the controlled vocabulary and in rare cases the Art and architecture thesaurus (aat) and the Library of Congress subject headings (lcsh). The user should be aware that this is an American thesaurus which follows American spelling and conventions. For example, to search for pictures of Harbours you should use the index term Harbors, for Railways you should use Railroads, &c. You can consult an on-line index to the thesaurus, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/toc.html, in order to decide which topical search terms to use.

 

Examples of a topical search
SEARCH Trees
SEARCH Boats

 

 

Searching by genre or form

 

The prints have also been indexed for genre using the Library of Congress's Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (gmgpc) as the controlled vocabulary. Once again the user should be aware that this is an American thesaurus. You can consult the index to the thesaurus on-line, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/, to decide which genre search terms to use.

 

SEARCH Intaglio prints
SEARCH Chromolithographs