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    891 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    271 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from"12 records

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"Bahram Gur Hunts the Onager", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Bahram Gur Hunts the Onager", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)

ca. 1330–40 · Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Woman Seated Near a Basket on a Stool by Cornelis Bega, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Woman Seated Near a Basket on a Stool

Cornelis Bega (d. 1664)

ca. 1658–62 · Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper; framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by a later hand

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Young Man Seated on the Ground by Jan Miel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Young Man Seated on the Ground

Jan Miel (d. 1664)

early 17th–mid 17th century · Black and white chalk, brush and gray ink on brown paper; framing line in pen and brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Footed beaker by Franciscus Rether, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Footed beaker

Franciscus Rether (d. 1684)

mid-17th century · Silver

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Concert from a set of Tapestries "After the Indian Manner" by John Vanderbank, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Concert from a set of Tapestries "After the Indian Manner"

John Vanderbank (d. 1717)

After 1690 · Wool, silk (19-20 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Belt by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Belt

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1700 · Gilded silver, beryls, garnets

Cleared · Public Domain

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Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar by Stipple Master, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Stipple Master (d. 1725)

ca. 1707–8 · Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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George III, Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales and others in a Picture Gallery near Windsor Castle by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George III, Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales and others in a Picture Gallery near Windsor Castle

Johann Heinrich Ramberg (d. 1840)

January 11, 1790 · Etching, printed in color

Cleared · Public Domain

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[The Great Wave, Sète] by Gustave Le Gray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[The Great Wave, Sète]

Gustave Le Gray (d. 1884)

1857 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Madura. The Great Pagoda Jewels. by Linnaeus Tripe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madura. The Great Pagoda Jewels.

Linnaeus Tripe (d. 1902)

January–February 1858 · Albumen silver print from dry collodion on glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic" by Sydney Prior Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"

Sydney Prior Hall (d. 1922)

September 10, 1887 · Wood engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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No 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.

A Child's Garden, from "Picture Poesies"

Arthur Boyd Houghton (d. 1875)

first published 1865, reissued 1874 · Wood engraving

In copyright

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