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
312 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
428 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
The Actor Ichikawa Ebizō III as Shinozuka Iga no kami Sadatsuna in a Shibaraku Scene
Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 (d. 1792)
1775 (An'ei 4), 11th month · Left sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro 3rd in an Unidentified Role
Ippitsusai Bunchō (d. 1792)
ca. 1769 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV Seated in an Outer Room
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 (d. 1819)
1789 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Kabuki Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV
Torii Kiyonaga (d. 1815)
ca. 1783 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor Ichikawa Komazō III
Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英 (d. 1819)
ca. 1791 (Kansei 3) · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Actor, Matsumoto Koshiro I 1674–1730 in an Unidentified Role
Katsukawa Shunkō (d. 1812)
1812 · Woodblock print; ink and color on 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.
Ichikawa Danjūrō as Arajishi Otokonosuke and Matsumoto Kōshirō as Nikki Danjō, in a performance of Meiboku Sendai Hagi
Kitano Tsunetomi (d. 1947)
1918 · Pair of hanging scrolls; ink, color, gold, silver, and mica on silk
In copyright
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2. Read the arithmetic
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