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Rights clearance desk for images

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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Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 4 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Book of Hours (Use of Metz): Fol. 27r, D"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Astronomical table clock by Jeremias Metzger, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Astronomical table clock

Jeremias Metzger (d. 1602)

1568 · Case and dials: gilded brass; Movement: iron

Cleared · Public Domain

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Repeating watch by Francis Perigal, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Repeating watch

Francis Perigal (d. 1767)

probably ca. 1770 · Case: partly enameled gold; Dial: white enamel with black numerals and silver hands set with diamonds; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Watch case by George Harrison, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Watch case

George Harrison (d. 1790)

probably ca. 1770 · Partly enameled gold, outer case set with diamonds

Cleared · Public Domain

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Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso) by Hubert Robert, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for a Triumphal Arch (recto); Alternate Study for a Triumphal Arch (verso)

Hubert Robert (d. 1808)

ca. 1800 · Black chalk

Cleared · Public Domain

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2. Read the arithmetic

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