Rights clearance desk for images
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
1173 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
314 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 6,720 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Design for a Frontispiece with the Medici Arms
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (d. 1605)
16th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash, heightened with white, incised for transfer; with collage
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Frontispiece: Mercury and Fame
Francisco Rizi (d. 1685)
1650 · Pen and brown ink with pen and black ink and brush and gray wash. Composition outlined in pen and brown ink. Contours incised and verso blackened with carbon dust for transfer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Frontispiece; Allegorical Composition with a Young Man Kneeling before a Tree
Giovanni Angelo Canini (d. 1666)
1615–66 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Overdoor with a Bust
Giovanni Battista Foggini (d. 1725)
1672–1725 · Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Frontispiece with an Allegory of Brazil
Ottmar Elliger the Younger (d. 1735)
late 17th–mid-18th century · Pen and gray and black ink, brush and gray wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Frontispiece with Figures of Faith and Hope
Martin Tyroff (d. 1759)
1704–59 · Red chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Frontispiece
Claude Louis Châtelet (d. 1794)
1782 · Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and brown and gray wash, watercolor; framing lines in pen and black ink, with brush and pink wash outside lines
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a fountain with an obelisk
Anonymous, 18th century (d. 1800)
ca. 1760–80 · Pen and ink over graphite and watercolor
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Altar with a Variant
Anonymous, German, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Tomb with an Urn
Johann Gottfried Schadow (d. 1850)
late 18th–19th century · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over a sketch in graphite
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.
Frontispiece design for "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche" (published in Bradley: His Book")
William Henry Bradley (d. 1962)
November 1896 · Letterpress (relief process)
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.
Design for an Urn with a Mermaid
Anonymous, Italian, 19th century (d. 1900)
1800–1900 · Ink and wash
In copyright
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