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

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

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Results for "Mary Magdalen Writing a Letter"12 records

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Letter in Kana Characters by Myōe Kōben, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter in Kana Characters

Myōe Kōben (d. 1232)

early 13th century, probably 1220s · Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Kana Letter on Stamped Images of Amida Buddha by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kana Letter on Stamped Images of Amida Buddha

Unrecorded maker

early 13th century · Hanging scroll; brush written letter, ink on paper (front); stamped images, ink on paper (reverse)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary by Master of the Franciscan Breviary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Franciscan Breviary (d. 1460)

mid-15th century · Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mary Magdalen Writing a Letter by Master of the Female Half-Lengths, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary Magdalen Writing a Letter

Master of the Female Half-Lengths (d. 1550)

1550 · Oil on wood

Cleared · Public Domain

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Letter by Shōkadō Shōjō, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Shōkadō Shōjō (d. 1639)

early 17th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper

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Design for a sepulchral monument with Mary Magdalen and Saint Jerome (recto); Sketch (counterproof) and writing exercises (verso) by Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a sepulchral monument with Mary Magdalen and Saint Jerome (recto); Sketch (counterproof) and writing exercises (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger (d. 1691)

late 17th–early 18th century · Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink, counterproof of a red chalk drawing (verso)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Courtesan Writing a Letter by Kaigetsudō Doshin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Courtesan Writing a Letter

Kaigetsudō Doshin (d. 1736)

ca. 1715 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Courtesan Reading a Letter by Ishikawa Toyonobu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Courtesan Reading a Letter

Ishikawa Toyonobu (d. 1785)

mid-18th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design

Unrecorded maker

18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, and silver inlay on gold nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground

Cleared · Public Domain

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Letter by Rai San’yō 頼山陽, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Rai San’yō 頼山陽 (d. 1832)

ca. 1820–28 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper

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.

The Letter

Mary Cassatt (d. 1926)

1890–91 · Drypoint, printed in black ink from one plate; first state of four

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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.

“Rubble of writing” (Moji gareki), a letter to Baron Maeda Masana

Tomioka Tessai (d. 1924)

1915 · Letter mounted as a hanging scroll: ink and color on paper

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