Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
374 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
416 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 12 matching records exist across the two collections.
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Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1480–1500 · Walnut and elm, partly veneered and inlaid with different woods, ivory, bone (camel?) and pewter; covered in silk velvet not original to the armchair
Cleared · Public Domain
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Seated male figure
Unrecorded maker
mid-16th century · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
live![Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder Abriss der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten: enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America [General historical pocketbook, summarizing noteworthy world news of 1784, with a History of the Revolution in North America] by Matthias Christian Sprengel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP-12996-01.jpg)
Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder Abriss der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten: enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America [General historical pocketbook, summarizing noteworthy world news of 1784, with a History of the Revolution in North America]
Matthias Christian Sprengel (d. 1803)
1784–87 · Illustrations: etching and engraving, some hand-colored; pen and ink and wash drawings
Cleared · Public Domain
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Thomas Macdonough
Joseph Wood (d. 1830)
ca. 1818 · Oil on wood
Cleared · Public Domain
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COMMODORE MACDONNOUGHS/ VICTORY
Enoch Wood & Sons (d. 1846)
ca. 1818–ca. 1846 · Earthenware, transfer-printed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Gilpins Mills / on the Brandywine Creek
Enoch Wood & Sons (d. 1846)
ca. 1820–ca. 1846 · Earthenware, transfer-printed
Cleared · Public Domain
live![[Antietam Battlefield] by Alexander Gardner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP274832.jpg)
[Antietam Battlefield]
Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)
1862 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
live![Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam] by Alexander Gardner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP274801.jpg)
Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]
Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)
September 1862 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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Lulah Falls, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Isaac H. Bonsall (d. 1909)
1864–65 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
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.
Seat of War in the Environs of Philadelphia, from the London Magazine
Thomas Kitchin (d. 1784)
December 1777 · 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.
Battle of Brandywine Creek, September 11, 1777
Johann Martin Will (d. 1806)
ca. 1777 · 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.
Old Italian Masters, I, Engraved by Timothy Cole, Japan Proofs
Timothy Cole (d. 1931)
1892 · Wood engraving on Japan paper
In copyright
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