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
976 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
262 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 75 matching records exist across the two collections.
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Catafalque for Duchess Maria Cesi of Altemps (Hohenems), from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura"
Marcus Antonius Magnus (d. 1614)
1609 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Book cover
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1610–20 · Silver, lined with black velvet, containing a contemporary psalter
Cleared · Public Domain
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Longcase clock with calendar and alarm
Ahasuerus II Fromanteel (d. 1703)
ca. 1690–94 · Case: walnut and rosewood veneer on oak, and partly gilded limewood; Dial: gilded and silvered brass; Movement: brass and steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Installation of Fireworks Held at Versailles in 1729 for the Birth of the Dauphin
Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (d. 1750)
ca. 1757–61 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wine goblet
Jacob Sang (d. 1786)
Third quarter 18th century · Lead glass, wheel engraved
Cleared · Public Domain
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Grand Fantastical Parade, New-York, December 2, 1833
David Claypoole Johnston (d. 1865)
1833 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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“Enjoying the Evening Cool near Lord Nabeshima’s Warehouses” (Fūryū Nabeshima yūsuzumi)
Jukakudō Masakuni 壽鶴堂政国 (d. 1829)
ca. 1825 · Pentaptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical ōban
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.
Twelve Grotesque Figures (Months of the Year), Plate 3 (December)
Denis Boutemie (d. 1636)
ca. 1638 · Etching, state 1 of 3
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.
Fireworks display in Nuremburg celebrating the birth of the Archduke, heir to the Roman Empire, July 25, 1678
Anonymous, German (d. 2050)
after 1678 · Etching
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.
Fireworks Held in Amsterdam on December 9, 1721, in Commemoration of the Peace between Russia and Sweden Ratified on August 30, 1721
Jan Smit (d. 1740)
18th century · Engraving, hand-colored (likely added later)
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.
Mr. Carlyon's Christmas, as noted in his Diary, Pictured by his Grandson–21st-23rd December, from "The Graphic," Christmas Number
Randolph Caldecott (d. 1886)
December 5, 1881 · Color wood 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.
We crossed the River at McKonkey's Ferry 9 miles above Trenton ... the night was excessively severe ... which the men bore without the least murmur...-Tench Tilghman, 27 December 1776/Struggle Series - No. 10: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Jacob Lawrence (d. 2000)
1954 · Egg tempera on hardboard
In copyright
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