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    1312 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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

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Results for "Starting Out on His Mettle"12 records

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Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band cup (drinking cup) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band cup (drinking cup)

Unrecorded maker

third quarter of the 6th century BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Quatrain on yellow roses by Empress Yang Meizi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Quatrain on yellow roses

Empress Yang Meizi (d. 1232)

early 13th century · Round fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk

Cleared · Public Domain

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Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Unrecorded maker

first half of the 16th century? · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot) by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (d. 1543)

first half of the 16th century? · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Curb Bit by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curb Bit

Unrecorded maker

early 17th century · Iron alloy

Cleared · Public Domain

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General Cheathem's Marvellous Return from His Exhibition of Fire Works by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

General Cheathem's Marvellous Return from His Exhibition of Fire Works

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

September 24, 1809 · Hand-colored etching

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.

Starting Out on His Mettle

Thomas B. Worth (d. 1917)

1875 · Hand-colored lithograph, with touches of gum arabic

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.

African head

Alexander Calder (d. 1976)

ca. 1928 · Wood

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.

Potato

Joan Miró (d. 1983)

1928 · Oil on canvas

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.

Untitled

Willem de Kooning (d. 1997)

ca. 1946 · Oil and charcoal on Masonite

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.

DS 1958

David Smith (d. 1965)

1958 · Spray paint with masking out 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.

Trayvon

Jim McDowell (d. 9999)

2013 · Stoneware, shoestring

In copyright

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