Los Angeles County Museum of Art

U.S.A. / 11,038 ~ images available
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art digital collection includes prints and drawings mostly from the 16th to the 19th century.

Authors include Félicien Victor Joseph Rops, Honoré Daumier, Antonio Tempesta, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Hendrik Goltzius, Francisco Goya, Jacques Callot, Albrecht Dürer and Bernhard Gillam among others.

Here you can stumble upon illustrations of Don Quixote, chocolate ad’s, meticulous architecture drawings and caricature sketches, religious themes and satirical cartoons.

Prints (7,663 images)
Drawings (1,319 images)
Textiles (1,093 images)
Paintings (1,036 images)
Manuscripts (461 images)
Books (416 images)

How to find images?

1. Visit https://collections.lacma.org/.
2. Activate the search field and press ‘Enter’.

Now you can see all collection items.
Direct link
63,946 images on 28/09/2019
64,839 images on 16/08/2020

Themes
Themes

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Authors
Authors

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Is the digital scan under an open licence?

Not all digital scans in this collection are under an open licence. Open licence is applied only to those digital scans where the original work is believed to be in the public domain in the U.S. Where digital scan is under an open licence, it is available to be downloaded in high resolution.

How to find them?

Use a filter:

1. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’)
2. Make sure ‘Show public domain images only’ is selected
25,178 images on 28/09/2019
24,961 images on 16/08/2020 (217 less)

These images are also marked ‘Public Domain / High Resolution Image Available‘.

OR

Check images individually:
1. Go to the image page
2. See if you can download it

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Is the original work in the public domain?

Not all original works in this collection, which are under an open licence and available to download in high resolution, are in the public domain in the European countries. 

This is because Los Angeles County Museum of Art is in the U.S. and guided by the copyright law of the U.S. It applies open licence to digital scans where original works are believed to be in the public domain in the U.S

How to find images which you can reuse in most of the European countries?

Focus on older items:

1. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’)

2. Scroll down until ‘Chronology’ section and select dates up to 1950 (you can only select one data range at a time.
Search results you get are now more likely to be in the public domain in most of the European countries.

Please note, there are many images by unknown authors (unfortunately, you can’t check author death dates).

Now, after you limited results, check each image individually:
1. Go to the image page
2. Identify all the authors and contributors
3. Find the death date of the last living author (dates are available)

If the last living author has passed away more than 70 years ago, most likely, his/her works are in the public domain in most of the European countries. 

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However, if you intend to use images for commercial purposes you might want to do additional checks to assess any risk. 

Please note, it is always your personal responsibility to make sure the original work is out of copyright in all countries where you distribute your new creative works. The supplier of the digital scan cannot guarantee this. 

How to continue searching?

Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’). You can narrow down the search results using filters:

  • artist
  • classification
  • curatorial area
  • chronology
How to view search results?

You can view results as thumbnails with titles.

How to continue browsing?

How to view an image?

Go to the image page and click ‘Enlarge’ to see a zoomed in view.

Go to ‘My Gallery’ to login and add items to your personal gallery. 

You can also comment, tag and share images.

How to view image metadata?

Go to the image page. Here you can see:

  • authors
  • country
  • date
  • medium
  • type of work
  • collection it belongs to
How to download?

1. Go to the image page.
2. Choose one of two download options:

  • Powerpoint quality JPEG
  • Publication quality TIFF
How to attribute?

Artist name, Title, Date. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Open licence (e.g. CC0 ) + a link

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