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
312 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
579 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 158 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
![The City of New York, in the State of New York, North America [The Birch View with the Picnic Party] by Samuel Seymour, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP-19735-001.jpg)
The City of New York, in the State of New York, North America [The Birch View with the Picnic Party]
Samuel Seymour (d. 1850)
[1803] reissued ca. 1820 · Hand-colored engraving and etching; third state of three
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.
The Lady's Library No. 3, The Book of Point Lace and Tatting
Darton & Company, London (d. 1876)
1850 · Illustrations: commercial 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.
Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England . . .Vol. I. Spires.
Charles Wickes (d. 1859)
1853–54 · Illustrations: lithographs
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.
Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England . . . Vol. II. Towers.
Edward Augustus Freeman (d. 1892)
1854–55 · Illustrations: lithographs
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.
Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England . . . Supplemental Volume.
Charles Wickes (d. 1859)
1858–59 · Illustrations: lithographs
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.
Sloan's Constructive Architecture
Samuel Sloan (d. 1884)
1859 · Illustrations: lithographs and color lithographs
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.
Catalogue of Bird Cages
O. Lindemann & Co. (d. 1900)
1883 · Illustrations: photomechanical 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.
The Towers of Charterhouse, Godalming
Sir David Young Cameron (d. 1945)
1895 · Etching; only state
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.
The Towers of Charterhouse, Godalming
Sir David Young Cameron (d. 1945)
1895 · Etching; only state
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.
The Two Towers
B. J. O. Nordfeldt (d. 1955)
ca. 1906–15 · 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.
Heating Homes with Oil
The Williams Oil-O-Matic Heating Corporation (d. 1946)
ca. 1926 · Illustrations: photomechanical process, color
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.
This is the N M U – A picture history of the National Maritime Union of America, C I O
William Gottlieb (d. 1999)
1955 · Illustrations: photographic process
In copyright
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