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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

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

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

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Results for "Variety"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

A variety of heads by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A variety of heads

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1645 · Etching; second state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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Corner Fragment with a Variety of Patterns by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Corner Fragment with a Variety of Patterns

Unrecorded maker

1800s · Lace, Bleached linen (est.): needle lace, machine-made burato (twined ground and darned in two directions), cutwork, drawnwork, and applied fringe

Cleared · CC0

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Fugu and Inada Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish) by Utagawa Hiroshige, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fugu and Inada Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)

Utagawa Hiroshige (d. 1858)

1840s · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Floral-shaped Cup Stand with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Floral-shaped Cup Stand with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design

Unrecorded maker

1100s · Ceramic, inlaid and glazed porcelain

Cleared · CC0

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Shimadai and Ainame Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish) by Utagawa Hiroshige, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shimadai and Ainame Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)

Utagawa Hiroshige (d. 1858)

1840s · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Tea Whisk-Shaped Sake Bottle by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tea Whisk-Shaped Sake Bottle

Unrecorded maker

1660s–early 1670s · Ceramic, Porcelain with overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, early iro-e)

Cleared · CC0

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Tobiuo and Ishimochi Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish) by Utagawa Hiroshige, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tobiuo and Ishimochi Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)

Utagawa Hiroshige (d. 1858)

1840s · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Cover for a Pitcher by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cover for a Pitcher

Unrecorded maker

1100s · Ceramic, celadon ware with inlaid white and black slip decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Pincian Garden, Rome by Jane Martha St. John, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pincian Garden, Rome

Jane Martha St. John (d. 1882)

1853–56 · Albumen silver print

Cleared · Public Domain

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Incense Burner by Seifū Yohei III, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Incense Burner

Seifū Yohei III (d. 1914)

1893–97 · Ceramic, Porcelain with molded design, crimson glaze, and floral openwork silver lid

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.

A variety of heads

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1645 · Etching; second state of two

In copyright

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The Laundress by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Laundress

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (d. 1901)

1888 · Drawing, black and gray wash with white paint, scratched away in places, on gray cardboard prepared with white ground

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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2. Read the arithmetic

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