The Witt Collection of British Art is now scanned and online. Over 500,000 reference cards with good images from auction listings and magazines, seemingly omitting the ‘portrait of a long-forgotten local worthy’ type of auction picture.

Regrettably it doesn’t seem possible to search by ‘location of scene’. Thus a search for “Birmingham” becomes swamped by items once belonging to Birmingham City Museum etc. Nothing for “Staffordshire”. Over 1,000 items from Samuel Palmer, though. Also many by Edward Lear and Turner.