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

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

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Results for "Death's coat of arms, from "Dance of Dea"12 records

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Bottle, Skeletal Couple with Child by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bottle, Skeletal Couple with Child

Unrecorded maker

3rd–7th century · Ceramic, slip, pigment

Cleared · Public Domain

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Crucifixion flanked by Saints by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crucifixion flanked by Saints

Unrecorded maker

1270–1290 · Silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Coat-of-Arms of Death, from "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein the Younger, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coat-of-Arms of Death, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger (d. 1543)

ca. 1526, published 1538 · Woodcut

Cleared · Public Domain

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Death's coat of arms, from "Dance of Death" by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Death's coat of arms, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

[1651] late 18th century printing · Etching; second state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Last Drop by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Last Drop

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

April 5, 1801 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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School for Gallantry by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

School for Gallantry

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

May 10, 1802 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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David Garrick as Richard III (Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 5, Scene 8) by Samuel William Reynolds, the elder, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

David Garrick as Richard III (Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 5, Scene 8)

Samuel William Reynolds, the elder (d. 1835)

1825 · Mezzotint; fragment of working proof; before first state

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shiva Mahadev by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shiva Mahadev

Unrecorded maker

1878–1883 · Lithograph, printed in black and hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Arabesque Devant by Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Arabesque Devant

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

modeled probably before 1890, cast 1920 · Bronze

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.

Cupid and Death (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop," 1673)

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1673 · Etching

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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.

"Ould Times" at Donnybrook Fair

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1857 - 1872 · Hand-colored lithograph

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.

He took the princess by both hands and they danced about with all the little goblins, for "The Travelling Companion"

Arthur Rackham (d. 1939)

1904 · Watercolor and pen and ink

In copyright

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