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
165 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
466 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 161 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Two Studies of a Young Girl (possibly Louise-Reine Guffroy)(recto); A Study of a seated man with sketches of his hand, a girl, and a head (verso)
Adélaïde-Marie-Anne Castellas-Moitte (d. 1807)
ca. 1797 · Pen and brown ink (recto); graphite, pen and brown ink (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Shirt
Elizabeth Wild Hitchings
1816–17 · linen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Comic Valentine (woman at sewing machine)
Anonymous (d. 1899)
ca. 1850 · Hand-colored wood engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Picture of Sights in Yokohama: Woman with a Ringer, Lamp Post, a Steamboat at Full Sail and a Woman with a Sewing Machine
Utagawa Yoshikazu (d. 1870)
11th month, 1860 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Boots
Unrecorded maker
1860–69 · wool
Cleared · Public Domain
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Boots
Unrecorded maker
1865–75 · wool
Cleared · Public Domain
live![Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue] by Domestic Sewing Machine Company, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP-19955-001.jpg)
Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue]
Domestic Sewing Machine Company (d. 1940)
Summer 1883 · Illustrations: wood engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Court Ladies Sewing Western Clothing (Jokan yōfuku saihō no zu)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (d. 1912)
August 23rd, 1887 · Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Ladies Sewing (Kijo saihō no zu)
Adachi Ginkō (d. 1902)
September 3rd, 1887 · Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
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.
Doll Quilt, Chimney Sweep pattern
Ella Mygatt Whittlesey (d. 1945)
1852 · Cotton
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.
Hand Sewing Machine
Arthur Dove (d. 1946)
1927 · Oil, cut and pasted linen, resin, and graphite on sheet metal, with artist-made frame
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.
Girl at Sewing Machine
Moses Soyer (d. 1974)
1940 · Oil on canvas
In copyright
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