Catalogue entries are organized in a standardized sequence:
| artist | |
| title | |
| date | in brackets when assigned and not documented |
| technique | in terms of material substance (graphite, ink, watercolour …), tools (pen, brush…), support or carrier (paper, canvas…); graphite preceding watercolour means under-drawing etc. |
| measurements | size of whole objects in metric and imperial measurements; size of stretcher in oil on canvas |
| signed | transcription includes what are believed to be inscriptions by the artist’s own hand with addition of (/) for indication a new line |
| inscribed | transcription of significant secondary additions in writing with addition of (/) for indication a new line |
| provenance | available documented origin of an object |
| exhibitions | available evidence of exhibition |
| literature | objects published or mentioned in print of significance |
| top, upper, bottom, lower, right, left, center | |
| r | recto: face |
| v | verso: back—terms combined to describe location of interest |
| window | opening of the mount (passe-partout), size of image, when it is not possible to take measurements of the whole object without the risk of damage |
| support | enforcement of the carrier |
| paper, light board, board | categories determined by weight of paper |
| oil, board | oil on a stiff plate, made of combined materials for painting purposes oil, wood oil on wooden board |
| wove paper | hand-made paper with smooth surface |
| laid paper | hand-made paper with ribbed surface produced by wire sieve |
| prepared paper | paper with a post-production treatment of the surface for drawing purposes |
| buff paper | color of unbleached paper of any hue between grey-brown-yellow-tan |
| laid on | pasted on stronger support, enforced |
| pasted | paper pasted on the opening of a mount |
| ink | liquid media |
| India ink | black ink |
| reps | cloth woven in fine ribs combining materials (in our case cotton for ribs and hemp for weaving) |
| A.R.A. | Associate Royal Academician |
| R.A. | Royal Academy; Royal Academician |
| attr. | attributed |
| ed., eds. | editor(s) |
| edn. | edition |
| ibid. | ibidem: in the same place as quoted before |
| ms. | manuscript |
| MP | member of parliament |
| P.R.B. | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| [sic] | warning of mistake transcribed from the original |
Bibliography
Crowther, Paul. Awakening Beauty: The Crowther-Oblak Collection of Victorian Art. Exhibition catalogue. Ljubljana: National Gallery of Slovenia; Galway: Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, 2014.