Photography and Image Permissions
To order an image or request permission to reproduce an image, please contact our rights and reproductions office. Please include as much of the following information as possible in your request:
- Contact name
- Company name
- Shipping and billing addresses
- Phone and fax numbers
- Email address
- Information about the object requested (i.e., object number, artist, title, medium, country of origin, date)
- Photographic material format requested (black-and-white print, color print, color transparency for publication, digital image)
If you are requesting permission to reproduce an image, please include the following information as well:
- Project or publication name and description (for publications, please provide as much bibliographical information as possible)
- Quantity (print run or estimated number of subscriptions if an online publication)
- Please indicate if this is an educational or nonprofit project.
- If you are requesting permission to reuse an image you already have, please indicate when and where you obtained it. If applicable, include an invoice or permission number.
Pay Now
Already have an invoice? Pay now. Please have your invoice number and amount available.Digital Image Sets
You can also order sets of our most popular images, provided digitally on a CD, at a special price of $200 plus shipping. The PDFs below provide details about the sets, which each include 40 images unless otherwise indicated.To order, contact reprorights@si.edu.
American Art
Image information (PDF)Caption information (PDF)
Biblical Manuscripts
2 sets availableSet information
Chinese Art
Image information (PDF)Caption information (PDF)
Islamic Art
Image information (PDF)Caption information (PDF)
Japanese Art
Image information (PDF)Caption information (PDF)
South Asian Art
Image information (PDF)Caption information (PDF)
Email, fax or mail image requests to:
Email, fax or mail image requests to:
Rights and Reproductions Coordinator
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 707
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
reprorights@si.edu
Fax: 202-312-2811
Members of the press
For questions on using museum images in media stories, contact our press office at publicaffairsAsia@si.edu.
