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
687 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
275 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 125 matching records exist across the two collections.
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Page from a Sketchbook Depicting a City under Siege and a Scene of Homage(?) (recto); standing figures and a horseman; male and female figures; a battle scene (verso)
Domenico Beccafumi (d. 1551)
1520s · Pen and brown ink; at the top, traces of a sketch in red chalk (recto); Pen and light brown ink, some of the figures redrawn by the same hand in dark brown ink (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Native American and Equestrian Studies (from Sketchbook)
John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910)
ca. 1860 · Graphite on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Sketchbook
John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910)
ca. 1860 · Drawings in pen and brown and black ink, graphite, and Conté crayon on off-white wove paper, bound in black coated Bristol board
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bay, Hill, and Figure on Shore (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Boat and Encampment (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Distant Landscape with Encampment (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
liveLandscape with Trees and Encampment (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Outline of Trees (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
liveOutline of Trees, Figure, and Canoe (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Sketches of Sailboats (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Field with Laborers (from Sketchbook VII)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1886 · Graphite on off-white wove 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.
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (d. 1924)
1895–97 · Verso: watercolor over pencil
In copyright
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