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Results for "The Stepping Stones"12 records

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Boy Stepping to the Right over Banderoles by Barthel Beham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Boy Stepping to the Right over Banderoles

Barthel Beham (d. 1540)

mid-17th century · Engraving; first of two states

Cleared · Public Domain

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Leaving the Bath by Edgar Degas, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaving the Bath

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

1879–80 · Print, drypoint, aquatint

Cleared · CC0

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Tobias and the Angel by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tobias and the Angel

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1644–52 · Etching; third state of three

Cleared · Public Domain

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Birth of the Buddha by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Birth of the Buddha

Unrecorded maker

800s · Sculpture, Black chlorite

Cleared · CC0

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Bolton Priory.  The Stepping Stones by Joseph Cundall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bolton Priory. The Stepping Stones

Joseph Cundall (d. 1895)

1850s · Albumen silver print

Cleared · Public Domain

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Hippopotamus by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hippopotamus

Unrecorded maker

332 BCE–395 CE · Sculpture, bronze, solid cast

Cleared · CC0

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Stepping Stones, from the Lighthouses series (N119) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stepping Stones, from the Lighthouses series (N119) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1889 · Commercial color lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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A Calling by William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Calling

William Adolphe Bouguereau (d. 1905)

1896 · Painting, oil on fabric

Cleared · CC0

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Bather Stepping into a Tub by Edgar Degas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bather Stepping into a Tub

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

ca. 1890 · Pastel and charcoal on blue laid paper, mounted at perimeter on backing board

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 Stepping Stones

Currier & Ives (d. 1907)

1857–71 · Hand-colored lithograph

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.

Original Ulverston Wood, Iron, and Steel Revolving Shutters – Pamphlet

John Stones (d. 1900)

after 1880 · Wood engraving and lithographic process

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.

[Woman Stepping Onto Chair]

Eadweard Muybridge (d. 1904)

1883–86, printed 1887 · Collotype

In copyright

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