Thank you for your email requesting permission to use NPG 1 William Shakespeare on your website. Please can you give me the website address?
Yes you do need a license to reproduce any images from our collection either on a website or anything else. We would class this as a domestic website and we charge our lowest reproduction fees for this type of use.
The cost for the licence for up to 3 years for a domestic website is £18.00 + VAT = £21.15. The cost of supplying a digital image is £25.00 inclusive of VAT. The total price for permission and supply of image is £46.15, however if the image on our website is large enough for your purposes then you can download it from there and you only need to pay the reproduction fee of £21.15.
As you do not have a credit account with us at present, we would require payment in advance. This can be done in a variety of ways - a cheque, drawn on a British bank, and made payable to the "National Portrait Gallery", credit cards - AMEX, Visa and Mastercard (please include card number, expiry date, statement address and the card holder's name as it appears on the card - PLEASE NOTE that we do not have a secure internet server for receiving card details so would prefer to receive the information by phone, fax or post) or bank transfer (please contact us for further details). All payments must be made in sterling. Please quote our reference ******* in all correspondence.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me,
Kind regards, Emma *
VAT must be charged at the UK rate of 17.5%. Our Vat number GB 240 1362 14.
All prices quoted in this letter are only valid for a two month period from the post-date.
Subsequent transparency hire fees are applicable if a transparency has not been received by us by the end of the first month hire period. All images must appear with a credit line, which reads, "National Portrait Gallery, London" (alternatively, this credit may appear within the picture acknowledgements). Images reproduced without a credit line, or in reverse, will be subjected to a penalty fee, which will not be less than the original reproduction fee. One complimentary copy of each publication must be sent to the NPG Picture Library upon publication, for our reference purposes.