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
683 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
352 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 257 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Allegory of the Triumph of Death over Church and State
Girolamo da Treviso (d. 1544)
ca. 1538–44 · Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray-blue wash, highlighted with white gouache, on brownish paper (probably blue originally).
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger with an Allegory on the Death of his Wife, Christina Muller
Aegidius Sadeler II (d. 1629)
1600 · Engraving; first state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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Allegory of the Death of a Religious Man
Frans Francken II (d. 1642)
early 17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and blue ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Allegory on the Death of the Earl of Arundel
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
ca. 1646 · Etching; third state of three
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mary, Queen of Scots, on the morning she suffered Death in Fotheringhay Castle
George Dawe (d. 1829)
May 12, 1796 · Mezzotint and etching on steel.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Allegory on the Death of George Washington
Jacques Kuyper (d. 1808)
1800 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist
Cleared · Public Domain
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Scene of General McPherson's Death
George N. Barnard (d. 1902)
1864 or 1866 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Quadroon
George Fuller (d. 1884)
1880 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of George Eliot, seen in profile to the left
George Richmond (d. 1896)
1881 · Graphite
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.
Massacre in St. George's Field and Boston, etc. [eleven political pamphlets]
George Kearsley (d. 1790)
1768–70 · Illustrations: engraving
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.
The Combat in Macbeth (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8)
George Cruikshank (d. 1878)
1818–19 · Etching with touches of stipple, hand-colored
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.
Allegory
Bob Thompson (d. 1966)
1960 · Oil on canvas
In copyright
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