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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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "The Prodigal Son (in "Good Words for 186"5 records

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Altar to the Sun Warrior by Mexico Nahua artist(s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s)

1450-1521 CE · Stone

Cleared · Public Domain

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Watch by F. L. Meybom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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F. L. Meybom (d. 1710)

ca. 1670–75 · Case: gold, blued steel, rock crystal, partly gilded silver, and diamonds; Dial: painted enamel and basse-taille enamel on gold; Movement: gilded brass, partly blued steel, and silver

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.

The Prodigal Son Leaving His Father's House, plate 1 from The Story of the Prodigal Son

David Vinckboons (d. 1629)

1608 · Etching; Hollstein's first state of two

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.

The Prodigal Son (in "Good Words for 1863," opp. p. 161)

Sir John Everett Millais (d. 1896)

1863 · Wood engraving

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.

Woodcuts from Designs by Various Artists, Collected by Arthur Heseltine, 1873

Dalziel Brothers (d. 1893)

1860–73 · Wood engraving

In copyright

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