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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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  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 33,127 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Letter"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Letter by James Oldham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

James Oldham (d. 1850)

December 26, 1786 · Pen and brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Courtesan Reading a Letter by Teisai Hokuba, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Courtesan Reading a Letter

Teisai Hokuba (d. 1844)

early 1800s · Painting, two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Letter by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Unrecorded maker

18th century

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Letter by Karl Hofer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Letter

Karl Hofer (d. 1955)

1934 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Letter by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Unrecorded maker

early 19th century

Cleared · Public Domain

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Woman with a Letter by Sigmond Freudeberg, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman with a Letter

Sigmond Freudeberg (d. 1801)

1750–1800 · Drawing, Watercolor and gouache with point of brushwork

Cleared · CC0

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Letter by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Unrecorded maker

early 19th century

Cleared · Public Domain

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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.

Designs for Transfer Ornament

The Palm Letter Company (d. 1956)

1893–1910 · Illustrations: wood engraving

In copyright

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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.

Letter Opener

Louis C. Tiffany (d. 1933)

ca. 1905–20 · Bronze

In copyright

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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.

S.M.S. No. 1, February, 1968

Letter Edged in Black Press Inc. (d. 1999)

February 1968

In copyright

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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.

S.M.S. No. 2, April 1968

Letter Edged in Black Press Inc. (d. 1999)

April 1968

In copyright

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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.

S.M.S. No. 3, June 1968

Letter Edged in Black Press Inc. (d. 1999)

June 1968

In copyright

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