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
594 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
364 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 148 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
View of an Island with Antique Ruins (The Abduction of Europa), from: Imagini Favolose
Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder (d. 1583)
1575–85 · Etching, state before initials; verso drawing in pen and ink with wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Guanyin and the sixteen luohans
Unidentified artist
16th–17th century · Round fan mounted as an album leaf; ink, color, and gold on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Moat Island, Windsor Great Park
Thomas Sandby (d. 1798)
ca. 1754 · Watercolor, pen and gray ink, over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Enchanted Fountain of Love's Truth (La Fontaine Enchantée de la Verité d'Amour)
Augustin de Saint-Aubin (d. 1807)
ca. 1783 · Etching and engraving (state before dedication)
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)
Peter Simon (d. 1813)
first published 1797; reissued 1852 · Stipple engraving; fourth state of four
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1)
Benjamin Smith (d. 1833)
originally published 1797; reissued 1852 · Stipple engraving and etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hamilton's Floating Battery Moored at the End of Sullivan's Island the Night Before They Opened Fire upon Fort Sumter
Alma A. Pelot (d. 1869)
April 1861 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
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.
A Plan of New York Island, Part of Long Island &c. Shewing the Position of the American & British Armies, before, at and after the Engagement on the Heights, August 27, 1776
Samuel John Neele (d. 1824)
November 1, 1806 · Etching and engraving
In copyright
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.
The Scheldt, Texel Island
Robert William Wallis (d. 1878)
ca. 1849 · Engraving and etching on chine collé
In copyright
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.
Comb
Ulawa Island artist
late 19th–early 20th century · Wood, shell, paint, fiber
In copyright
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