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
390 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
417 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 20 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Perpsective View (uki-e) of a Kabuki Theatre, with a Performance of The Crest Patterns of the Soga Brothers and Nagoya Sanza (Mon-zukushi Nagoya Soga)
Okumura Masanobu (d. 1764)
1748 (Enkyō 5), first month · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Beauty Looking Down upon a Young Man Reading a Love Letter
Utagawa Toyoharu (d. 1814)
ca. 1771 · Woodblock print (pillar print); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Perspective Print (Uki-e) of the Theaters in Sakaichō and Fukiyachō on Opening Night
Utagawa Toyoharu (d. 1814)
ca. 1780 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; horizontal ōban
Cleared · Public Domain
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Picking Clams
Utagawa Toyokuni I (d. 1825)
ca. 1791 · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III in the Role of Shimada Jūzaburō, from the series "Image of Actors on Stage"
Utagawa Toyokuni I (d. 1825)
ca. 1795 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pilgrimage to Myōhōji in Horinouchi, Edo
Utagawa Toyohiro (d. 1828)
ca. 1804 · Two sheets of a pentaptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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“The Pyramids of Egypt” Egefutekoku senkei kodai), from the series Newly Published Dutch Perspective Prints (Shinpan Oranda uki-e)
Utagawa Kuninaga (d. 1829)
1829 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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“The Tomb of King Mausolus” (Ajia-shū Maurirya-ō keibo), from the series Newly published Dutch Perspective Pictures (Shimpan Oranda uki-e)
Utagawa Kuninaga (d. 1829)
ca. 1829 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail
Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)
1865–66 · 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.
The Useful, Composed of Ornaments of All Periods and Styles
John Phillip Rinn (d. 1905)
1877 · Photo 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.
The Useful, Composed of Ornaments of All Periods and Styles
John Phillip Rinn (d. 1905)
1877 · Photo 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.
Oriental Masterprint – 13, from the series Oriental Masterprints
Roger Shimomura (d. 9999)
1975 · Color screen print on wove paper
In copyright
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