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
313 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
295 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 12 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Longcase clock
Thomas Dickenson (d. 1827)
ca. 1807 · Case: rosewood, coniferous wood veneered with mahogany and inlaid with bands of holly, stained holly and bone, and brass; Dial: painted enamel on copper with brass hour hands; Movement: brass and steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Moon
John Adams Whipple (d. 1891)
1857–60 · Salted paper print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Moon
John Adams Whipple (d. 1891)
1857–60 · Salted paper print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Moon
John Adams Whipple (d. 1891)
1857–60 · Salted paper print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Moon
John Adams Whipple (d. 1891)
1857–60 · Salted paper print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Section of the Constellation Cygnus (August 13, 1885)
Paul Henry (d. 1905)
1885 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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Lunar Photograph, South Pole
Paul Henry (d. 1905)
1890 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
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.
Illustrated London Almanack
Mason Jackson (d. 1903)
1865–70 · Illustrations: wood engravings 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.
Photographie Lunaire: Bouillaud, Ptolémée, Copernic
Maurice Loewy (d. 1907)
1896 · Photogravure
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.
Systematic Photographic Map of the Moon, Increasing and Decreasing Phases
Charles Le Morvan (d. 1933)
1899–1909, published 1914 · Photogravures
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.
Systematic Photographic Map of the Moon, Increasing and Decreasing Phases
Charles Le Morvan (d. 1933)
1899–1909, published 1914 · Photogravures
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.
Lunar Observatory, from the "Jets, Rockets and Spacemen" series (R701-13), issued by Bowman Gum Company
Bowman Gum Company (d. 1999)
1951 · Commercial color lithograph
In copyright
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2. Read the arithmetic
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