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Results for "The Best of Friends Must Part"12 records

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The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678) by Karel van Mander I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678)

Karel van Mander I (d. 1606)

16th–17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Teaspoon (part of a set) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Teaspoon (part of a set)

Unrecorded maker

1749 · Gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

April 22, 1784 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Helmet and Shield in the Classical Style by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Helmet and Shield in the Classical Style

Unrecorded maker

probably ca. 1760–70 · Bronze, silver, gold, silk, metallic yarn

Cleared · Public Domain

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Helmet in the Classical Style by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Helmet in the Classical Style

Unrecorded maker

probably ca. 1760–70 · Bronze, silver, gold, silk, metallic yarn

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shield in the Classical Style by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shield in the Classical Style

Unrecorded maker

probably ca. 1760–70 · Bronze, silver, gold, silk, metallic yarn

Cleared · Public Domain

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Fukurokuju by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fukurokuju

Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章 (d. 1792)

1798 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Landscape with rising sun, December 1, 1828, 8:30 a.m. by Joseph Michael Gandy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape with rising sun, December 1, 1828, 8:30 a.m.

Joseph Michael Gandy (d. 1843)

1828 · Watercolor over graphite

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Best of Friends Must Part by Sir John Tenniel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Best of Friends Must Part

Sir John Tenniel (d. 1914)

1878 · Wood engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Best of Friends Must Part by Sir John Tenniel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Best of Friends Must Part

Sir John Tenniel (d. 1914)

ca. 1878 · Graphite

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.

Madame Gautreau Peering over the Top of a Piano

John Singer Sargent (d. 1925)

1883 · Black ink 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.

"SEX Craft must have clothes"

Vivienne Westwood

1999–2000 · cotton

In copyright

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