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

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Jonah Cast Out by the Whale onto the Shore of Nineveh by Maarten van Heemskerck, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jonah Cast Out by the Whale onto the Shore of Nineveh

Maarten van Heemskerck (d. 1574)

1566 · Drawing, Pen and brown ink over indications in black chalk, within brown ink framing lines; indented for transfer

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Single Leaf from a Bible: Initial E[t factum est] with Jonah Swallowed by the Whale by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Single Leaf from a Bible: Initial E[t factum est] with Jonah Swallowed by the Whale

Unrecorded maker

c. 1290 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

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Crocodile Pendant by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Crocodile Pendant

Unrecorded maker

1000–1550 · Metalwork, cast gold, modern greenstone

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Jonah Swallowed by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jonah Swallowed

Unrecorded maker

280–90 CE · Sculpture, marble

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The creatures of the sea are asked by the king of the Ocean to take a message to the Brahman, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The creatures of the sea are asked by the king of the Ocean to take a message to the Brahman, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night

Unrecorded maker

c. 1560 · Painting, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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Resist-Dyed Hanging with Biblical Scenes by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Resist-Dyed Hanging with Biblical Scenes

Unrecorded maker

500–550 · Textile, linen: resist-dyed, plain weave

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The Offering by Charles W. Hawthorne, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Offering

Charles W. Hawthorne (d. 1930)

c. 1915 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Totem Pole by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Totem Pole

Unrecorded maker

c. 1880 · Sculpture, carved and painted wood

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Seashore with a High Sea by Magdalena van de Passe, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seashore with a High Sea

Magdalena van de Passe (d. 1638)

1620 · Print, engraving

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