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Results for "Breaking the Ice"12 records

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Columbus Breaking the Egg by William Hogarth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth (d. 1764)

April 1752 · Etching and engraving; first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Breaking Ice, Souvenir of Norway by Gustave Doré, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Breaking Ice, Souvenir of Norway

Gustave Doré (d. 1883)

late 1800s · Print, lithograph

Cleared · CC0

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Columbus Breaking the Egg by William Hogarth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth (d. 1764)

December 1, 1753 · Etching and engraving; second state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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Jar by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jar

Unrecorded maker

1522–66 · Ceramic, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Columbus Breaking the Egg by Dent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Columbus Breaking the Egg

Dent (d. 1800)

ca. 1800 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Party Breaking Up, and Quae Genus Breaking Down by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Party Breaking Up, and Quae Genus Breaking Down

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

December 1, 1821 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Cleared · Public Domain

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Ice skates by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ice skates

Unrecorded maker

1840–59 · leather, wood, metal

Cleared · Public Domain

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No 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.

Breaking the Ice

John Rubens Smith (d. 1849)

October 1, 1801 · Mezzotint, hand-colored

In copyright

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No 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 Knickerbocker Ice Co. Descriptive Price Llist...Dealers In and Shippers of Ice, Builders of Ice Wagons, Ice Cars, and Machinery for Filling Ice-houses, Manufacturers of Ice Tools

Knickerbocker Ice Co. (d. 1950)

1877–78 · Illustrations: wood engravings and lithographs

In copyright

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No 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.

Breaking Waves

Claude Flight (d. 1955)

ca. 1931 · Linocut

In copyright

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No 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.

Moses breaking the tablets

Federico Cantù (d. 1989)

1945 · Engraving

In copyright

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No 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.

Breaking the Vicious Circle

Terry Haass (d. 2016)

1950 · Engraving

In copyright

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