That sounds like a huge task.  I have never run across such things.  There are a number of original art pieces hosted here and on the Tome of Treasures but by no means any sort of index to art within modules.

There's interest in such a thing.

viewtopic.php?t=8409&highlight=art

But nothing available or in progress that I know of.

An excellent idea for a subweb!

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For such a project, it might also be worthwhile to check into copyright issues.  I am guessing that when you start pulling a significant amount of content from a book like all the artwork, you are breaching copyright issues.

If all you wanted to do was create an index but not show each picture then you would be safe.

I think it might have been mentioned that the rights reverted back to artists(?) so you could contact a number of them to ask if you could use their artwork for such a purpose.

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Hard to believe nobody here had taken the name "Grognard" yet.  Welcome!

Well, after thinking about it, I was wondering if a simple text index would have a lot of use, other than for historical purposes. If relatively complete for whatever period I decided to cover, it would at least give people a heads up on the artwork from various printings that they may have never seen, or don't have as part of their collection.

Without the actual images though, I'm not sure if there's any other point to the exercise.

Its not like I need to undertake this just to increase my nerd profile. That's pretty high already.  

Grognard wrote:Well, after thinking about it, I was wondering if a simple text index would have a lot of use, other than for historical purposes.

That statement could be applied to the entire Acaeum!  

If relatively complete for whatever period I decided to cover, it would at least give people a heads up on the artwork from various printings that they may have never seen, or don't have as part of their collection.

I think this is a sufficient reason to create such a list, but I agree it's a great deal of work for small return.

Without the actual images though, I'm not sure if there's any other point to the exercise.

As I said in the previous thread linked above, I personally would be interested only in a text-only list/database. I think including scans of all of the interior artwork goes too far towards replicating the entire work on-line.

Also, I still think the best place to add this information would be the Acaeum Wiki. That way you could click on, for example, "Bill Willingham", and it would show the Wiki pages for every product that has art in it by him (cover or interior), and then you could click directly on the page for each product and go right to it and see the other artists in that same product.

A big advantage to the Wiki is that information can be adding piecemeal by the interested parties.

Obstacles:
-The Acaeum Wiki only has a dedicated field for cover artist of the products. If they could enable a field for interior artists I would start contributing to this. The information could be: Page #, Artist Name, Brief Description (e.g., "Lizardman mounted on Giant Lizard").
- I'd want to start with TSR products which are covered by the regular Acaeum rather than the Wiki. I assume this would require a "shell page" (or whatever the correct term is) that would need to be created for each product.