Indecent Images CD-ROMs

Long before there were pixels...

If you enjoyed the Indecent Images web page, you can own some of the paintings discussed therein.

The artists of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood — and other Victorian-era painters working in similar styles — created some of the most sensuous and evocative images. While most of us have seen these pictures in reproduction or as coarse JPEG files on the web, they can only be truly appreciated by those fortunate enough to view the original canvasses. Sadly, scattered throughout galleries and private collections around the world, these pictures are generally only accessible to someone with a lot of time to kill and a private jet.

The Indecent Images CD-ROMs are almost as good as being there. We've licensed photographs of one hundred truly breathtaking paintings from Christie's Images of London, one of the world's leading image libraries. These pictures have been professionally photographed onto four by five inch transparencies and laser-scanned as Photo-CD files. Vastly superior to the reproduction in books and art prints, these pictures are as close to the originals as technology can manage. Each CD-ROM includes fifty paintings.

The Indecent Images CD-ROMs include a complete multi-resolution Photo-CD image pack for each painting, as well as high and low resolution PNG and JPEG copies of each. All the graphics have thumbnails, suitable for browsing with Graphic Workshop. Each CD-ROM also includes an HTML document with some commentary and background for selected pictures.

The Indecent Images CD-ROMs cost $4.99 per volume plus applicable shipping — please visit our secure server e-commerce page to order on line, or call our toll-free order desk at 1-800-263-1138 9:00am to 5:00pm EST.

These discs are compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and better. The image files on the Indecent Images CD-ROMs can be read on a Macintosh or a Linux system with suitable software.

VOLUME I The Indecent Images CD-ROM volume one includes the following paintings. You can view thumbnails of all the pictures — but they don't begin to do justice to the images on the CD-ROM. Midsummer Night John Atkinson Grimshaw The Awakening of Adonis John William Waterhous Boreas and Orithyia Oswald Von Glehnlle Bachanal Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Roses of Heliogabalus Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Now is Pilgrim Fair Autumn's Charge John Byam Liston Shaw Dreamers William Merret Hodges The Queen of the Tournament Frank William Warwick Topham Green Summer Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones Illustrations to the Morte D'Arthur Arthur Rackham The Muse Erato at her Lyre John William Godward Expectations (1885) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Feeding the Peacocks Alfred Sacheverell Coke Paolo and Francesca Edward Charles Halle The Accolade E. Blair Leighton Odalisque Lord Frederic Leighton Proserpine Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Soul of the Rose John William Waterhouse Hero Holding the Beacon for Leander Evelyn de Morgan Fair Rosamund John William Waterhouse The Fisherman and the Siren Ekwall Knut The Forty-Nine Daughters of Danaides John William Waterhouse A Study for La Belle Dame sans Merci John William Waterhouse The Crystal Ball John William Waterhouse Ophelia John William Waterhouse The Household Gods John William Waterhouse Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail Ferdinand Leeke God Speed E. Blair Leighton Beaute Romane Wiliam Adolphe Bouguereau In the Golden Days John Melhuish Ophelia and Laertes William Gorman Wills My Fair Lady E. Blair Leighton Idylle Wiliam Adolphe Bouguereau Silver Albert Joseph Moore At Aphrodite's Cradle Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Night Wilfred Gabriel von Glehn Luna Charles Edward Halle Portrait of a Lady Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Frog Prince Edward Frederick Brewtnall The Toilet John William Godward The Grace Cup William John Wainwright Reverie Dante Gabriel Rossetti Flaming June Lord Frederic Leighton Il Barbagianni Valentine Cameron Prinsep Sea Shells Albert Joseph Moore Sybil Lord Frederic Leighton St. George Slaying the Dragon John Byam Liston Shaw The Loving Cup Daniel Maclise Music Henry Holliday Looking Seaward John William Godward

VOLUME II The Indecent Images CD-ROM volume two includes the following paintings. You can view thumbnails of all the pictures — but they don't begin to do justice to the images on the CD-ROM either. The Siren Sir Edward Poynter La Vague William Adolphe Bouguereau The Fountain of Love Jacques Clement Wagrez The Four Seasons F.R. Pickersgill Mianda (The Tempest) John William Waterhouse Truth George William Joy Cave of the Storm Nymphs Sir Edward Poynter Contemplation Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee The Awakening of Psyche Guillaume Seignac Andromeda Paul Gustave Christophe Dore Les Nereides Gaston Bussiere L'Odalisque Adolphe Weiz At Low Tide Sir Edward Poynter Idylle William Adolphe Bouguereau Venus Verticordia Dante Gabriel Rossetti Safie William Clark Wontner When Claudius is Away... A. Pigma The Cock Fight Guglielmo Zocchi Boucles D'Oreilles William Adolphe Bouguereau The Boudoir Rose Henery Thomas Schafer The Pet Dove Heywood Hardy A Deep Sea Fantasy Charles Courtney Curran The Embarkment of a Roman Queen Ettore Forti The Birth of Venus Robert Fowler The Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight Arthur Hughes May Morris Dante Gabriel Rossetti Boreas John William Waterhouse The Bracelet Frederic Lord Leighton The Delphic Oracle John William Godward Clytie Evelyn de Morgan The Serenade Leonard Raven The Bath John R. Weguelin Apres Edward John Gregory Syrenes Charles Eduard Boutibonne Bertuccio's Bride Edward Robert Hughes A Classical Nude Edward Perseus The End of a Weary Day Downing Delapoer A Difference of Opinion Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Naked Piper Arthur Hill An Apodyterium Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Vestal John Atkinson Grimshaw Young Woman Standing by Tiger Skin A.H. Longmaid Blossoms Arthur Drummond The Flowers of Venus John William Godward The Damsel of the Lake Frank Cadogan Cowper A Voluptuous Smoke Charles Edouard Delort The Sleeping Princess Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones The Princess Sabra led to the Dragon Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones The Sleeping Girl Ellenor Corbet nee Ough Pharmakeutria Maria Stillman nee Spartali

Note: The images on these CD-ROMs have been scanned from copyrighted photographs which are used under license. By purchasing these CD-ROMs, you are buying the right to use these images for your entertainment only. They may not be duplicated or used in any commercial context without a negotiated license from Christie's Images. For example, you can use them as screen savers or wallpaper on your computer, or print them out and pin them to a nearby wall. You cannot use them as book covers, magazine illustrations or web page graphics, or distribute the image files on disk or over the internet, without the permission of the copyright holder.

Please also note that because the images on these CD-ROMs are scanned from real, unretouched photographs of real paintings, you'll see extraneous details such as frames, easels and colour matching cards in some of them. In addition to the original Photo-CD images, these discs also include sets of images which have been cropped and cleaned up, for use as wallpaper and screen saver graphics. You can, of course, crop and resize the original images as you wish with Graphic Workshop.

Finally, we'd be remiss in failing to point out that some of the subjects in these paintings aren't wearing much of anything. While it would be a tenuous stretch of the imagination indeed to describe them as "adult," these pictures may not be suitable for viewers who are extremely easily offended.

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These CD-ROMs were originally mastered back in the late twentieth century. By an odd quirk of technology, the laser scanning system that was used to create them no longer exists, and the paintings they include probably wouldn't enjoy quite as sophisticated a level of reproduction were the CDs authored today. The slightly historic nature of these discs, however, means that they include several fairly dated bits of software and HTML content. None of these ancillary elements are required to access the paintings — you'll probably want to ignore them.