
Plaque with animal legs
Unrecorded maker
ca. 2600–2500 BCE · Shell, slate, bitumen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Plaque with animal legs
Unrecorded maker
ca. 2600–2500 BCE · Shell, slate, bitumen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Corbel with Bearded Figure with Pinecone-Like Objects
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1150–1200 · Limestone
Cleared · Public Domain
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Corbel with Two Men with Fingers in Mouths
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1150–1200 · Limestone
Cleared · Public Domain
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Corbel with Two Men with Legs in the Mouth of Two Beasts
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1150–1200 · Limestone
Cleared · Public Domain
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Horizontal Panel with a Siren with Foliage for Legs and Two Children
Allaert Claesz. (d. 1555)
ca. 1520–55 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mountainous landscape with two men in the foreground
Antonio Vianello (d. 1878)
1828 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
live![[Three Men in Shepherd Attire, One with Bagpipes, the Other Two Holding Bread] by Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP700254.jpg)
[Three Men in Shepherd Attire, One with Bagpipes, the Other Two Holding Bread]
Unknown
1850s · Daguerreotype with applied color
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
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Two Men with Wrist Watches
Seydou Keïta (d. 2001)
1955 · Film, emulsion
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.
Two Men with Wrist Watches
Seydou Keïta (d. 2001)
1975 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
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