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Rights clearance desk for images

A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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.

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  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 28,769 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "The Photographer"9 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

[The Photographer before his Tent on the Site of the Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren)] by George Wilson Bridges, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[The Photographer before his Tent on the Site of the Pyramid of Khafre (Chephren)]

George Wilson Bridges (d. 1864)

1851 · Salted paper print from paper negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Krishna's Butter Ball, Mahabalipuram by Unidentified Photographer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Krishna's Butter Ball, Mahabalipuram

Unidentified Photographer

c. 1900s · Photograph, Gelatin silver print, toned, on collodion printing-out paper

Cleared · CC0

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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.

The Photographer

Jacob Lawrence (d. 2000)

1942 · Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

In copyright

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Two Children with Toys by Unidentified Photographer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Two Children with Toys

Unidentified Photographer

c. 1855 · Photograph, daguerreotype, quarter-plate

Cleared · CC0

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Temple Tank, Tamil Nadu by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Temple Tank, Tamil Nadu

Unrecorded maker

c. 1860 · Photograph, stereoscopic albumen print

Cleared · CC0

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Before the Race by Edgar Degas, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Before the Race

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

c. 1887–89 · Drawing, pastel with charcoal underdrawing on tracing paper mounted on cardboard

Cleared · CC0

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Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales by John Lloyd, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales

John Lloyd (d. 1865)

c. 1860 · Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative

Cleared · CC0

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Two Shepherdesses Resting with Two Sheep by Auguste Giraudon's Artist, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Two Shepherdesses Resting with Two Sheep

Auguste Giraudon's Artist

late 1870s · Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative

Cleared · CC0

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Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève by Eugène Atget, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève

Eugène Atget (d. 1927)

1898 · Photograph, albumen print, gold toned

Cleared · CC0

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2. Read the arithmetic

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