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
234 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
263 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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Burning of the City Hall New York, on the night of the 17th August 1858 – Supposed to have taken fire from the fire works exhibited in commemoration of the successful laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1858 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1866 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865–66 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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September 8th at Heart's Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing and testing the Atlantic Telegraph Cables of 1865 and 1866
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1866 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865–66 · Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865–66 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Atlantic Telegraph
Sir William Howard Russell (d. 1907)
[1866] · Illustrations: color lithographs
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Atlantic Telegraph
Sir William Howard Russell (d. 1907)
[1866] · Illustrations: color lithographs
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1866 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Heights over Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the William Corey Heading Seawards, Laying the Shore-end of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, July 7th, 1866
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865–66 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857–58
Robert Charles Dudley (d. 1909)
1865–66 · Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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