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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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.

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

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

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Results for "A Helpful Gesture by an Outsider..."11 records

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Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Unrecorded maker

5th–4th century BCE · Greywacke

Cleared · Public Domain

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Fragment with an Eight-Pointed Star Containing a Warrior by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment with an Eight-Pointed Star Containing a Warrior

Unrecorded maker

4th–6th century · Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

Cleared · Public Domain

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Hagar in the Desert Consoled by an Angel by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hagar in the Desert Consoled by an Angel

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

1591 · Engraving; first state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Puriya Ragaputra: Page from the Dispersed "Boston" Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Puriya Ragaputra: Page from the Dispersed "Boston" Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1760 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver, on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Plate 15, from "World in Miniature" by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 15, from "World in Miniature"

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

1816 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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By Candlelight by Julian Alden Weir, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Candlelight

Julian Alden Weir (d. 1919)

ca. 1885–93 · Drypoint; only state

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.

Sunday in the Olden Time

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1857–71 · Hand-colored lithograph

In copyright

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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.

Incidents in the Hopi Prayer for Rain

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (d. 1947)

1931 · Bronze

In copyright

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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.

Incidents in the Hopi Prayer for Rain

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (d. 1947)

1931 · Bronze

In copyright

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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.

Hands Framing New York Harbor

John Baldessari (d. 2020)

1971 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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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 Helpful Gesture by an Outsider...

Miguel Covarrubias (d. 1957)

20th century · Paper, pencil

In copyright

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