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South Asian Art: Writing & Citing

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John Hosford
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Citing Images - Chicago Style

Bibliographic entry – online (websites)
Duveneck, Frank. Whistling Boy, 1872. Oil on canvas, 28 in. x 21 ½ in.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati. <http://cincinnatiartmuseum.stores.yahoo.net/frduwhboy.html>, accessed
12 Aug. 2007.

Caption – online (websites)
Fig. 1: Whistling BoyFrank Duveneck, 1872, oil on canvas, 28 in. x 21 ½ in.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, <http://cincinnatiartmuseum.stores.yahoo.net/frduwhboy.html>


Bibliographic entry - online (databases)
van der Weyden, Rogier. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1430-1432. Diptych panel, 18.5 x 12 cm. Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Available from: ARTstor, <http://www.artstor.org> (accessed September 30, 2009).

Caption - online (databases)
Fig. 2: 
Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Rogier van der Weyden, 1430-1432, Diptych panel, 18.5 x 12 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Available from: ARTstor, <http://www.artstor.org>.


Bibliographic entry – slide in the library
Gris, Juan. Newspaper and Fruit Dish, 1916. Oil on canvas. 18 1/8 in. x 14 7/8 in. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. University of
Cincinnati, OH: Visual Resources Center, 2005, slides.

Caption – slide in the library
Fig. 1. Newspaper and Fruit Dish. Juan Gris, 1916, oil on canvas, 18 1/8
in. x 14 7/8 in. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Alfred University, NY: Slide Archive Scholes Library, 2020, slides.


Bibliographic entry – image scanned from a book
Neel, Alice. Nancy and the Rubber Plant, 1975. Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 91.4 cm. The Estate of Alice Neel. From: Ann Temkin et al. Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Plate 64.

Caption – image scanned from a book
Fig. 1. Nancy and the Rubber PlantAlice Neel, 1975, Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 91.4 cm. The Estate of Alice Neel. From: Ann Temkin et al. Alice Neel. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Plate 64.

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