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

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

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Results for "A couple making love beside a shamisen,"12 records

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Samson and Delilah by Master ES, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Samson and Delilah

Master ES (d. 1467)

15th century · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus Honored by the Nymphs by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus Honored by the Nymphs

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

ca. 1591 · Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of five

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus and Mercury by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus and Mercury

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

ca. 1600 · Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of four

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus and Mercury by Jan Muller, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus and Mercury

Jan Muller (d. 1628)

ca. 1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes by Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Handscroll of Ten Homoerotic (Nanshoku) Scenes

Miyagawa Chōshun 宮川長春 (d. 1753)

early 18th century · Handscroll; ink and colors on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage by Thomas Gainsborough, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage

Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)

1775–80 · Soft-ground etching with aquatint, printed in gray ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sampler by Martha (Patty) Coggeshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sampler

Martha (Patty) Coggeshall (d. 1797)

ca. 1792 · Silk and metal thread embroidery on linen

Cleared · Public Domain

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A couple making love beside a shamisen, a leaf from Unravelling the Threads of Desire (Negai no ito-guchi) by Kitagawa Utamaro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A couple making love beside a shamisen, a leaf from Unravelling the Threads of Desire (Negai no ito-guchi)

Kitagawa Utamaro (d. 1806)

1799 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), from an illustrated erotic book (shunpon); ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pleasures of the Hunt by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pleasures of the Hunt

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1800 · Ink, opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

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.

The Months: May

Etienne Delaune (d. 1583)

1566 · Engraving: first state

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 Months: May

Etienne Delaune (d. 1583)

1568 · Engraving

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 Four Seasons of Life – Old Age "The Season of Rest"

Charles Richard Parsons (d. 1918)

1868 · Hand-colored lithograph

In copyright

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