
Columbus Breaking the Egg
William Hogarth (d. 1764)
April 1752 · Etching and engraving; first state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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390 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
325 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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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
Gustave Doré (d. 1883)
late 1800s · Print, lithograph
Cleared · CC0
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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
Unrecorded maker
1522–66 · Ceramic, porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
Cleared · CC0
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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
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
December 1, 1821 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Cleared · Public Domain
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Ice skates
Unrecorded maker
1840–59 · leather, wood, metal
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.
Breaking the Ice
John Rubens Smith (d. 1849)
October 1, 1801 · Mezzotint, hand-colored
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.
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
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.
Breaking Waves
Claude Flight (d. 1955)
ca. 1931 · Linocut
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.
Moses breaking the tablets
Federico Cantù (d. 1989)
1945 · 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.
Breaking the Vicious Circle
Terry Haass (d. 2016)
1950 · Engraving
In copyright
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