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

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

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Results for "My friend, why are you up in the middle"12 records

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Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Engraved Lamp Stand with Chevron Pattern

Unrecorded maker

dated 986 AH/1578–79 CE · Brass; cast, engraved, and inlaid with black and red pigment

Cleared · Public Domain

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Landscape Painted on the Double Ninth Festival by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape Painted on the Double Ninth Festival

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (d. 1707)

dated 1705 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sailors on Horseback by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sailors on Horseback

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

March 16, 1811 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sailors on Horseback by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sailors on Horseback

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

March 16, 1811 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

July 15, 1812 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

July 15, 1812 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Cracking a Joke!! by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cracking a Joke!!

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

1813? · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Not bad, not bad at all the lady over there.... I wonder if she is alone... What rakes we are!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, September 8, 1864 by Honoré Daumier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Not bad, not bad at all the lady over there.... I wonder if she is alone... What rakes we are!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, September 8, 1864

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

September 8, 1864 · Lithograph on newsprint

Cleared · Public Domain

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Just look at that, my friend, how the fireplace is smoking..., from "Paris in Winter" by Honoré Daumier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Just look at that, my friend, how the fireplace is smoking..., from "Paris in Winter"

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

February 18, 1865 · Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three (Delteil)

Cleared · Public Domain

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My friend, why are you up in the middle of the night, are you ill?, from 'The spiritualists,' published in Le Charivari, November 7, 1865 by Honoré Daumier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

My friend, why are you up in the middle of the night, are you ill?, from 'The spiritualists,' published in Le Charivari, November 7, 1865

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

November 7, 1865 · Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Once more the horsemeat amateurs, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 10, 1865 by Honoré Daumier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Once more the horsemeat amateurs, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 10, 1865

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

April 10, 1865 · Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Plate 72: Recipe to cure colic, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

1838 · Lithograph on wove paper; third state of three (Delteil)

In copyright

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