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
1977 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
552 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 50 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Seated Nude Young Man in Nearly Frontal View
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (d. 1666)
ca. 1618 · Modified black chalk (dipped in a gum solution), traces of white gouache highlights, on light brown paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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An Academy by Lamplight
William Pether (d. 1821)
February 20, 1772 · Mezzotint; second state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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Plate 79 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Truth has died' (Murió la verdad)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (d. 1828)
1814–15 (published 1863) · Etching and burnisher
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Orphans, from "Illustrated London News"
William Luson Thomas (d. 1900)
April 13, 1867 · Wood engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The Amepton Carriage, registered by Edwin Kesteron, 80 Long Acre
Edward Kesterton (d. 1880)
1852 or later · Colored lithograph
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Portrait of James NcNeill Whistler
Charles Abel Corwin (d. 1938)
1880 · Monotype
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
80. The Young Gladiator
Unknown
1860s–80s · Photomechanical print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Plate 80: a young man removing a bandage from his eye, to learn to read (relating to the literacy campaign), from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Alfredo Zalce (d. 2003)
1947 · Linocut
In copyright
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