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

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View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm by Thomas Cole, The Cleveland Museum of Art

View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm

Thomas Cole (d. 1848)

1838 · Painting, oil on canvas

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A Rishi Stirring Up a Storm by John La Farge, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Rishi Stirring Up a Storm

John La Farge (d. 1910)

1897 · Drawing, watercolor and gouache over graphite

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A Storm Behind the Isle of Wight by Julius Caesar Ibbetson, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Storm Behind the Isle of Wight

Julius Caesar Ibbetson (d. 1817)

c.179(?) · Painting, oil on canvas

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Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee (folio 77 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee (folio 77 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Unrecorded maker

1602–4 · Manuscript, Gum tempera, ink, color, and gold on paper

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Hymn to Creation: Holy Spirit of God by Charles Marie Dulac, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hymn to Creation: Holy Spirit of God

Charles Marie Dulac (d. 1898)

1894 · Print, color lithograph on chine collé

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The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789 by Charles Thévenin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789

Charles Thévenin (d. 1838)

1790 · Print, Etching

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Portrait of General Keith MacAlister by John I Smart, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of General Keith MacAlister

John I Smart (d. 1811)

c. 1800–1810 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache, on paper

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