Image Citation
Format For a Work of Art
A Painting, Sculpture or Photograph
MLA Citation Style
When
you include an image in a paper that you are writing or as any part of an
academic assignment, you need to cite it just as you would cite a source such as
a book or a newspaper article. Under
copyright law you are allowed to use images for educational purposes. If
you are making a copy of an image for an educational project, copyright law
suggests that you include more information than for a book or a periodical
article, specifically a statement of use (see below). Standards for use of
copyrighted images are still being established. This handout describes all the
steps you can take to use an image under the “Fair Use” provisions of copyright law. For more on copyright
issues, see the websites on the back of this handout.
Image 1 Image 2
Citation for a Print
Resource (book or periodical):
For an image
copied from a print source you need to include two things
1) a citation in the following
format
2) a statement of use.
Model: Artist’s name if known. Title of artwork. Date of the artwork. Museum,
collection
or individual that it belongs to, the city where the owner
is located (add this
separately if the location is not included in the name of
the owner). Title of
book or periodical that the image is found
in. Author of the
book. Location of
publisher: publisher, date.
Statement of Use.
Example, Image 1:
Citation: Vinci, Leonardo da.
Mona Lisa. 1503-1506. Louvre,
Through The Ages. By Helen Gardner.
Statement of Use: These materials are included under the fair use exemption and are
restricted from further use.
Citation for an Image from the Internet
For an image downloaded or printed out from the Internet you need to include three things:
1) a citation in the following format
2) the description of the image from the website: most museums and many websites require that you use the description that they’ve written to accompany their images on their website.
3) a statement of use.
Model:
Artist’s name if known. Title
of artwork or description.
Date of the artwork.
Museum, collection or individual that it
belongs to, the city where the owner is
located (add this separately if the location is not included
in the name of the
owner). Name of the website. Date accessed (day/month/year)
URL (address for the website).
Description
of artwork from the website.
Statement
of use.
Example, Image 2:
Citation: Pendant Mask from
http://www.metmuseum.org.
Description: Pendant Mask: Iyoba,
16th century
copper; H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) The
Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial
Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972 (1978.412.323)
Statement of Use: These materials are included under the fair use exemption and are
restricted from further use.
Websites on Copyright and
Image Citation:
Highlights of the
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
Pennsylvania State
University
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/fairuse/fairhigh.html
Copyright and Art Issues
University of Oregon
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb
Image Copyright
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/
Citing Internet Sources in Papers/Citing Graphic Images
University
of Tampere , Finland
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/PP3D/citing.html#graphics
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