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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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  • The Metlive

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

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

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Results for "San Francisco"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

San Francisco by Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

San Francisco

Unknown

ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo by Francisco de Goya, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Don Juan Antonio Cuervo

Francisco de Goya (d. 1828)

1819 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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San Francisco by Charles Meryon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

San Francisco

Charles Meryon (d. 1868)

1855–56 · Etching on steel; third state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Untitled (Semi-Circle of Children, Central Girl Dressed as an Angel Holding the Baby Jesus) by Andrés and Francisco Hernández, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled (Semi-Circle of Children, Central Girl Dressed as an Angel Holding the Baby Jesus)

Andrés and Francisco Hernández

c. 1910s · Photograph, gelatin silver print

Cleared · CC0

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San Francisco by Carleton E. Watkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

San Francisco

Carleton E. Watkins (d. 1916)

1864, printed ca. 1876 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

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.

San Francisco, 1854

Thomas S. Sinclair (d. 1881)

1854 · Lithograph with two tint stones

In copyright

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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.

San Francisco Guide & Souvenir

Palace Hotel News Stand, San Francisco California

August 1904 · Illustrations: photomechanical process

In copyright

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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.

[Demonstration, San Francisco]

Dorothea Lange (d. 1965)

1933 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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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.

San Francisco

Lyonel Charles Feininger (d. 1956)

1939 · Watercolor, pen and black ink, and charcoal on paper

In copyright

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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.

Bus, San Francisco

Elaine Mayes (d. 9999)

1970 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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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.

Black power, black art ... and the struggle continues : political imagery from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

San Francisco State University

1994

In copyright

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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.

Anonymous, San Francisco

Katy Grannan (d. 9999)

2008 · Inkjet print

In copyright

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