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
591 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
307 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,260 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Historical Scene (Composition Study for Chapelle de Guise)
Niccolò dell' Abate (d. 1571)
16th century · Pen and brown ink, highlighted with white gouache over traces of black chalk; framing outlines with pen and brown ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study for The Allegory of Spring
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (d. 1609)
1579 · Pen and brown ink, over red chalk and black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study for an engraving in the Hortus Voluptatum
Crispijn de Passe the Elder (d. 1637)
1599 · Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash, over black chalk. Incised
Cleared · Public Domain
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Autumn; Study for an Engraving
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
n.d. · Pen and brown ink, brush and red-brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with a little white gouache
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Circumcision, Study for an Engraving
Ciro Ferri (d. 1689)
1634–89 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study of an Urn; Study for the Frieze Decoration around the Urn
Edward Pierce (Pearce) II (d. 1700)
ca. 1690 · Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk; stencilled gold border
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study for "The Ascension"
John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)
1774 · Ink ("Bistre") washes, pen and ink, black chalk, and graphite on off-white laid paper, watercolor
Cleared · Public Domain
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Historical subject with men and a boy near a ship (recto). Anatomical study of a foot (verso)
William Hamilton (d. 1801)
1770–80 · Recto: pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and watercolor, over graphite Verso: pen and black ink, brush and wash, over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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Historical Scene: Study for an Engraving
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Pen and brown ink
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.
Archaeological Plate from Collection for Book Illustrations, Containing a Rural Feast Scene
Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · 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.
A Scene for a Study (in "Good Words for 1864," opp. p. 160)
Sir John Everett Millais (d. 1896)
1864 · 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.
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, No. 3 (recto); Study for a scene with ten imaginary creatures (verso)
Dion C. Calthrop (d. 1937)
1899 · Recto: pen and black ink, watercolor, over graphite Verso: graphite
In copyright
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