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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

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

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

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2 of 2 providers answered live. 17 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bu"12 records

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Animal pendant by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Animal pendant

Unrecorded maker

1–1000 CE · Gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Illustrated Manuscript by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Illustrated Manuscript

Unrecorded maker

dated 815 AH/1412 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; leather binding

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pope Clement X by Girolamo Lucenti, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pope Clement X

Girolamo Lucenti (d. 1698)

ca. 1670 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Wig cabinet (cabinet de coiffure) by Johann Daniel Sommer II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wig cabinet (cabinet de coiffure)

Johann Daniel Sommer II (d. 1698)

ca. 1685 · Oak and walnut veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, and marquetry of pewter, mother of pearl, and tortoiseshell colored red on the reverse; silver; brocaded damask (not original)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Commode by André Charles Boulle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Commode

André Charles Boulle (d. 1732)

ca. 1710–20 · Walnut veneered with ebony, marquetry of engraved brass and tortoiseshell, gilt-bronze mounts, verd antique marble

Cleared · Public Domain

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Stand for a small tureen by Vienna, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stand for a small tureen

Vienna

ca. 1730–35 · Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds" by Edwin Austin Abbey, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Why then begin..., illustration to "A Bucolick or Discourse of Neatherds"

Edwin Austin Abbey (d. 1911)

ca. 1880 · Pen and ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Harvesters, illustration to "The Leather Bottèl" by Edwin Austin Abbey, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Harvesters, illustration to "The Leather Bottèl"

Edwin Austin Abbey (d. 1911)

1887 · Pen and ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Walt Whitman by John White Alexander, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Walt Whitman

John White Alexander (d. 1915)

1889 · Oil on canvas

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 Page, Volume 2

Edward Gordon Craig (d. 1966)

1899 · Illustrations: woodcuts, some hand-colored

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.

Broadway at Night

Alvin Langdon Coburn (d. 1966)

ca. 1910 · Photogravure

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.

Ȯkyeame poma (royal spokesperson's staff) with stool, chain, and crossed swords

Asante-Akan artist

ca. 1930s · Wood, gold foil

In copyright

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