J.M.W. Turner, online at Tate

The Tate Gallery has created the world’s first comprehensive online catalog of the oil paintings, watercolors and sketches of British artist J.M.W. Turner.

The vast Internet resource includes color images and descriptions of more than 2,000 Turner works, held in private and public collections in countries including Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Greece. The catalog also has 30,000 works bequeathed to the British nation on the artist’s death in 1851.

The last comprehensive catalog of Turner’s work was Andrew Wilton’s 1979 book, “The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner.” The Internet catalog contains 500 more works, which were not considered significant in 1979, or were not previously attributed to Turner and have since been uncovered by research.