Although it has the immense advantages of speed, and availability all round the clock and all round the world, the World Wide Web has technical limitations for displaying images of fine paintings.

The first limitation is in the apparent size of the picture. As well as the viewing distance, this depends upon the size of the computer screen. Our images are about as large as is possible while still fitting on the smallest screens (14 inches, with a resolution setting of 640 x 480). However, the measured size of each painting is given in inches, and 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters.

The size of the browser window can be increased by turning off the Tool and Status bars, which is especially worthwhile if viewing at 640 x 480.

Also, the font sizes have been chosen to suit screen settings of 800 x 600 and above. If viewing at 640 x 480, you can decrease the font size (View, Decrease Font in Netscape, or View, Font in Internet Explorer).

The second limitation is in representing the colours of the picture. We try to make the colours of the image a fair representation of the original painting. However, perfection is not possible because:
- of the effects of different lighting (e.g. daylight, artificial, or flash), and of the photographic film and chemical processing - or of the digital camera setting and digital processing.

- pictures and photographic prints are light-reflecting whereas images on computer screens are light-emitting. This means that certain colours can be reproduced by one and not by the other, which may affect the colour balance.

- the colour balance of your computer screen may differ from ours. To overcome this would require calibrating your computer screen to match ours for brightness, contrast, gamma, and colour temperature.

- although our images use a colour palette with millions of colours (the best possible), your computer screen may be set to use only thousands or even hundreds. We recommend viewing with at least thousands of colours, and you may be able to change the setting (e.g. via Control Panel, Display, Settings, Colors, in Windows 98).