Rights clearance desk for images
Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.
Where this page got its records
1617 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
301 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 81 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
"The Man who Pretends to be Asleep While the Thief Enters his House Becomes Drowsy and Really Falls Asleep", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Unrecorded maker
second quarter 16th century · Opaque watercolor on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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"The Thief Falls Through the Skylight in the Bedroom", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
Unrecorded maker
second quarter 16th century · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Friendly Visit
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
April 16, 1814 · Hand-colored etching and stipple
Cleared · Public Domain
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Glenns Falls (No. 6 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill (d. 1850)
1822 · Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two (Koke)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Little Falls at Luzerne (No. 1 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill (d. 1850)
1822–23 · Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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Rapids Above Hadley's Falls (No. 4 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill (d. 1850)
1822–23 · Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two (Koke)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Baker's Falls (No. 8 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill (d. 1850)
1823–24 · Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two (Koke)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hadley's Falls (No. 5 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith (d. 1849)
1821–22 · Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; second state of three (Koke)
Cleared · Public Domain
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VIEW OF / TRENTON FALLS
Enoch Wood & Sons (d. 1846)
ca. 1828–ca. 1846 · Earthenware, transfer-printed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Falls of Terni
Robert Macpherson (d. 1872)
ca. 1860 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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Multnomah Falls Cascade, Columbia River
Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)
1867 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
"Americana Prints: Ticker Tape" Textile
Charles Buckles Falls (d. 1960)
1927 (Series III, released spring 1928) · Printed silk
In copyright
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