Image licensing
We have thousands of licensable images illustrating the history of London and its people, from prehistory to the modern day.
Our collection of images includes paintings, prints, drawings, maps, photography and objects including archaeological artefacts, costume and jewellery. We also have images and footage from the Port of London Authority Collection.
Our Picture Library team look after the licensing of these images so they can be reproduced or used commercially.
Finding images
You can browse our huge online collection to find images that you’re interested in licensing.
We're always adding new images to our collection, so we’re bound to have something suitable for your project.
If you’ve found an image of an object that you like, but need a little more flexibility, we can also organise new photography for you.
Getting images licensed
Once you've found images you want to license, please get in touch with our Picture Library team on [email protected]
And do tell us your deadlines, so we can prioritise anything that’s urgent.
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Our collection is home to this painting of London Bridge by Charles Ginner, which can be licensed.
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Our photography collection can be licensed for use, like this one of Londoners sat beneath a Guinness advert in 1975.
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An early 20th-century painting of Mornington Crescent that can be licensed for use.
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This lithograph poster used as a bus advertisement is just one example of our huge collection of printed ephemera.
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Our team can take new photography of objects to suit your needs, like this detail on a cloak in our collection.
