Keeping album artwork when moving library

I am moving my library of about 13,000 songs to a larger drive. In order to remove the old copies of the songs from the iTunes list, I was planning to delete all the songs from the library and add the new copies to the empty library. Is there a way I can get iTunes to recognize the links between the new copies of the songs and the copy of the album artwork folder in the new location. This would save me a couple weeks of updating the artwork again.

I was planning to delete all the songs from the library
No need for this at all.
Follow these steps.
This will move everything and keep it all intact - all playlists, the artwork, all music, ratings, everything.
1 Quit iTunes.
2 Move the entire iTunes folder including music to the external drive.
3 Restart iTunes holding the Shift key in Windows, Option key in Mac.
4 iTunes will ask to Create new library or Choose existing library. Select Choose existing library and select the iTunes library file in the folder you just moved.
5 Move the old iTunes folder to the trash but do not empty it.
6 Restart iTunes normally and verify the songs work. If they do, empty the trash.

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