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
788 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
264 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,928 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
An Inhabited Ruin on the Bank of a River
Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)
ca. 1630–40 · Pen and two shades of brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist
Cleared · Public Domain
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Square Tower Used as Inn near a River
Jan van de Velde II (d. 1641)
ca. 1641 · Engraving and etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Landscape with Figures on the Bank of a River
Gaspard Dughet (d. 1675)
17th century · Red chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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An Actor of the Bando Line as an Outlaw Brought to Bay on the Bank of a River
Katsukawa Shunjō (d. 1787)
ca. 1780 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Group at a Tea-house on the Bank of the Sumida River
Chōbunsai Eishi (d. 1829)
ca. 1790 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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An Extensive Landscape with Farm Buildings and Church Ruin
Thomas Girtin (d. 1802)
ca. 1800 · Watercolor with touches of gum
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Lewitha
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (d. 1882)
1853–56 · Albumen silver print
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Ruins of the Abbey
Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)
1856 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Barge on the Bank of a River
Adolphe Appian (d. 1898)
1865 · Etching; first state of three
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.
House with Shrubbery on the Bank of a River
Anthonie Waterloo (d. 1690)
17th century · Etching; third state of four
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.
State Prison, on the Bank of the North River, New York
H. A. Harvey (d. 1900)
ca. 1797 · Etching and 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.
New Jersey Beverly Bank Currency–Three Dollars 1861
American Bank Note Company (d. 2050)
1861 · Engraving
In copyright
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