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Image from a website

Bibliography

Artist or creator Last Name, First Name, Title of Work, Date, medium, Dimensions (if applicable), Museum Name, Museum Location (if applicable) <https://xxxxxxxxxxx> [accessed Day Month Year]
Matisse, Henri, The Open Window, 1905, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. <https://www.https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.106384.html> [accessed 6 September 2018]

In-text

...as depicted in The Open Window.1

...as shown.1

First footnote

1 Henri Matisse, The Open Window, 1905, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. <https://www.https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.106384.html> [accessed 6 September 2018].

Subsequent footnotes

2 Matisse, The Open Window

Notes

  • The title of the image is in italics
  • Include the medium of composition
  • Give dimensions (if applicable) in cm.
  • Add a full stop at the end of the footnote but not at the end of the bibliography entry
  • If artwork does not have an exact date, use an approximate date preceded by c. (short for circa) e.g. c. 1455
  • Include an access date for the URL

Image from a book

Bibliography

Last name, First name, and Author First name Last name, Title of Book, medium of composition (Location of publication: Publisher, Year of publication)

Adams, Ansel, The Negative (Boston: Little, Brown,1981)

In-text

...as depicted in Winter Forest, Yosemite Valley.1

...as shown.1

First footnote

1 Ansel Adams, Winter Forest, Yosemite Valley, photograph, from The Negative (Boston: Little, Brown,1981) p. 82.

Subsequent footnotes

2 Adams, p. 82.

Notes

  • The title of the image is in Italics
  • Include the medium of composition
  • Add a full stop at the end of the footnote but not at the end of the bibliography entry