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

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

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Results for "Front Cover"12 records

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Inside Front Cover (from Sketchbook) by Thomas Sully, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inside Front Cover (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully (d. 1872)

1810–20 · Ink, wash, on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Front Cover for a Gospel Book of French Cardinal Jean La Balou (1421–1491) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Front Cover for a Gospel Book of French Cardinal Jean La Balou (1421–1491)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1467–68 · Metalwork, nielloed silver plaques within gilt-silver borders

Cleared · CC0

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Inside Front Cover (from Sketchbook) by John Quincy Adams Ward, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inside Front Cover (from Sketchbook)

John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910)

ca. 1860 · Graphite on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Cover for a Pot by Peter Carl Fabergé, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cover for a Pot

Peter Carl Fabergé (d. 1920)

1914 · Metalwork, copper with brass handles

Cleared · CC0

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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.

London As It Is (Front cover)

Thomas Shotter Boys (d. 1874)

1842 · Gold stamping on brown paper

In copyright

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Two-Handled Cup and Cover by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Two-Handled Cup and Cover

Unrecorded maker

1686 · Silver, silver gilt

Cleared · CC0

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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.

The Crayon. An American Journal of Art (front cover)

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (d. 1904)

February 1858 · Wood engraving on buff paper, proof

In copyright

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Front Cover by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Front Cover

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (d. 1901)

1898 · Print, lithograph

Cleared · CC0

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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.

Mother Goose Melodies

Porter & Coates (d. 1900)

[1870] (?) · Illustrations: color lithographs

In copyright

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Covered Pot by Peter Carl Fabergé, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Covered Pot

Peter Carl Fabergé (d. 1920)

1914 · Metalwork, copper with brass handles

Cleared · CC0

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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.

Alone with the Dying Year ("Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIX, front cover)

Michel Angelo Woolf (d. 1899)

January 2, 1875 · Wood engraving

In copyright

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Bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Unrecorded maker

Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina) · Painting, Gum tempera, paper, and colors on wood

Cleared · CC0

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