Skip to content
OpenPlate

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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

Your defaults

United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

Change on the terms page

2 of 2 providers answered live. 21,234 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Design for a Desk"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Design for a Desk by Charles Hindley and Sons, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons (d. 1917)

1841–84 · Brush and brown wash over graphite

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Desk and Bookcase by John Townsend, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Desk and Bookcase

John Townsend (d. 1809)

c. 1780–95 · Furniture and woodwork, "Plum pudding" mahogany, red cedar, chestnut, white pine, brass

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Design for a Desk with Mirror by Charles Hindley and Sons, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Desk with Mirror

Charles Hindley and Sons (d. 1917)

1841–84 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of white gouache

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Desk Section of a Desk and Bookcase by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Desk Section of a Desk and Bookcase

Unrecorded maker

c. 1780 · Furniture and woodwork, mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Design for a Desk by Anonymous, British, 19th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Desk

Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)

19th century · Graphite and watercolor on tracing paper

Cleared · Public Domain

live
The MetSimilar
Desk and Bookcase by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Desk and Bookcase

Unrecorded maker

c. 1780 · Furniture and woodwork, mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Design for a desk with drawers

L. & J. G. Stickley of Fayetteville, New York

ca. 1901–16 · Graphite, black chalk and black ink

In copyright

live
The MetSimilar
Bookcase Section of a Desk and Bookcase by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bookcase Section of a Desk and Bookcase

Unrecorded maker

c. 1780 · Furniture and woodwork, mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Design for a desk with drawers

L. & J. G. Stickley of Fayetteville, New York

ca. 1901–16 · Graphite, black chalk

In copyright

live
The MetSimilar
Cover for a Box by Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cover for a Box

Louis Comfort Tiffany (d. 1933)

1898–1901 · Glass, enamel on copper

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Design for a Desk Lamp

Paul-Emile Brandt (d. 1952)

ca. 1930–1940 · Graphite, pen and black and red ink, gouache, heightened with white

In copyright

live
The MetSimilar
Perch for the Parrot on a Perch by Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Perch for the Parrot on a Perch

Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (d. 1903)

1896–1903 · Miscellaneous, Silver, enamel

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

1. Pin the work

Choose the record and say what you are actually going to do with it. The product re-reads the work live and stores a snapshot, so your docket records what the institution said today.

2. Read the arithmetic

Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.

3. Seal and export

Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.