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
342 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
301 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel (d. 1693)
ca. 1660–65 · Case: ebony and oak veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, gilded brass; Dial: gilded brass with silvered-brass chapter ring; Movement: brass, steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21 (Liber Studiorum, part IX, plate 46)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)
May 23, 1812 · Etching and mezzotint; fourth state of four
Cleared · Public Domain
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Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21, part IX, plate 46 from "Liber Studiorum"
Joseph Mallord William Turner (d. 1851)
April 23, 1812 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four
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.
Woodcuts from Designs by Various Artists, Collected by Arthur Heseltine, 1873
Dalziel Brothers (d. 1893)
1860–73 · Wood engraving
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.
Illustrated London Almanack
William Biscombe Gardner (d. 1919)
1876–80 · Illustrations: wood engravings and color lithographs
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
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2. Read the arithmetic
Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.
3. Seal and export
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