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
237 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
372 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō IV as Yakko Yodohei and Nakamura Utaemon I as the Monk Kiyomizu no Seigen
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 (d. 1792)
1769 (Meiwa 6), 3rd month · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as the Elderly Samurai Hige no Ikyū
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 (d. 1792)
1782 (Tenmei 2), 5th month · Middle sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as the Young Daimyo Momonoi Wakasanosuke
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 (d. 1819)
1795 (Kan’ei 7), 4th month · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Nakamura Noshio II as the Courtesan Okaru
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 (d. 1819)
1795 (Kansei 7), 4th month · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Nakamura Noshio II in the Role of Imayō uta Bikuni
Katsukawa Shunkaku
1796 (Kansei 8) · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Nakamura Noshio II, in Female Role, Holding a Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute)
Katsushika Hokusai (d. 1849)
1796 (Kansei, 6th year) · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
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.
Album of Thirty-Two Triptychs of Polychrome Woodblock Prints by Various Artists
Toyohara Kunichika (d. 1900)
1883–86 · Album of thirty-two triptychs of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
In copyright
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