Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
596 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
316 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 3,676 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures
Hendrick Avercamp (d. 1634)
ca. 1613 · Gouache, watercolor, over lead point or graphite, on paper prepared with gouache; framing line in pen and brown ink and gold paint
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
published in 1797 · Print, softground etching and aquatint
Cleared · CC0
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Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road
Jacob van der Ulft (d. 1689)
mid-17th–late 17th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape
Anthonie Waterloo (d. 1690)
1630–90 · Black chalk and brush and black ink, gray and grayish black wash, heightened with white. Verso: (by the artist?) in pen and brown ink over black chalk.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Two Figures
Domenico Piola (d. 1703)
1627–1703 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
ca. 1770 · Black chalk, pen and black ink, blue and brown washes, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Cows beside a Pool, Figures and Cottage
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
1775–80 · Soft-ground etching with aquatint, printed in gray ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Country Cart, Cottage and Figures
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
1784–86 · Soft-ground etching; first state
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Figures and Cows at a Watering Place (The Watering Place)
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
August 1, 1797 · Soft-ground etching with aquatint; second state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
August 1, 1797 · Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
August 1, 1797 · Aquatint with soft-ground etching, printed in gray ink; third state of three
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures
Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788)
August 1, 1797 · Soft-ground etching, printed in gray ink; second state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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