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

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

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Results for "A clenched fist with the words 'Director"12 records

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Miniature corbel in the shape of a hand by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Miniature corbel in the shape of a hand

Unrecorded maker

ca. 883–859 BCE · Ceramic, glaze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Miniature corbel in the shape of a hand by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Miniature corbel in the shape of a hand

Unrecorded maker

ca. 883–859 BCE · Ceramic, bitumen

Cleared · Public Domain

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Standing male figurine by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Standing male figurine

Unrecorded maker

ca. 750–480 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Fist amulet by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fist amulet

Unrecorded maker

664–30 BCE · Black stone

Cleared · Public Domain

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Horned Figure, Shaman (?) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Horned Figure, Shaman (?)

Unrecorded maker

2nd century BCE–3rd century CE · Ceramic

Cleared · Public Domain

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Self-portrait by Samuel Lovett Waldo, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-portrait

Samuel Lovett Waldo (d. 1861)

ca. 1815 · Oil on wood

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Femme Fatale, a mask-like male face, and male figure seen from behind (recto). An angel descending stairs (verso) by Theodor Richard Edward von Holst, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Femme Fatale, a mask-like male face, and male figure seen from behind (recto). An angel descending stairs (verso)

Theodor Richard Edward von Holst (d. 1844)

1836–44 · Graphite

Cleared · Public Domain

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Dagger (Katar) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dagger (Katar)

Unrecorded maker

1852 · Steel, gold

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.

Right Arm of a Statue

Unrecorded maker

ca. 2000–1988 B.C. · Wood

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 clenched fist with the words 'Director del la Pueblo', from the newspaper l 'El Machete'

David Alfaro Siqueiros (d. 1974)

1924 · Photo-relief woodcut

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.

The Protest; a gigantic man standing with his left fist clenched, from "Agua y Cuace"

Leopoldo Méndez (d. 1969)

1937 · Linocut

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.

Variant of The Yellow Smock Coat

Lillian Bassman (d. 2012)

1950 · Gelatin silver print with applied media

In copyright

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