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Provenance · Acquisition fund

General Income

This catalog gathers 20 public-domain works acquired through the General Income fund. Every work is held by Cleveland Museum of Art.

  1. Monju as a Child (Chigo Monju) Monju as a Child (Chigo Monju) 1404
  2. Carrying a Qin on a Visit Carrying a Qin on a Visit Luo Zhichuan · 1320
  3. Night Scene on the Sumida River Night Scene on the Sumida River Utagawa Hiroshige · 1804
  4. Baron FitzGibbon Baron FitzGibbon Gilbert Stuart · 1789
  5. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Sam'l Provoost inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Sam'l Provoost inscribed below Peter Rushton Maverick · 1793
  6. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Gardiner Chandler inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Gardiner Chandler inscribed below Paul Revere II · 1782
  7. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Thomas Russell inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Thomas Russell inscribed below Joseph Callender · 1796
  8. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with John Sullivan inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with John Sullivan inscribed below Joseph Callender · 1796
  9. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with David Greene inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with David Greene inscribed below Paul Revere II · 1782
  10. Loan Certificate Loan Certificate Nathaniel Hurd · 1764
  11. John, Lord FitzGibbon John, Lord FitzGibbon Charles Howard Hodges · 1790
  12. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Foster inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Foster inscribed below John Mason Furness · 1793
  13. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with William Wetmore inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with William Wetmore inscribed below Paul Revere II · 1782
  14. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with James Giles inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with James Giles inscribed below Peter Rushton Maverick · 1793
  15. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with William Smith, Esq. inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with William Smith, Esq. inscribed below Joseph Callender · 1796
  16. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Thomas Cary inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Thomas Cary inscribed below Joseph Callender · 1796
  17. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Winthrop Sargent inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Winthrop Sargent inscribed below Joseph Callender · 1796
  18. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with John Adams inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with John Adams inscribed below 1850
  19. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Ezekiel Price inscribed Bookplate: Coat of Arms with Ezekiel Price inscribed Nathaniel Hurd · 1764
  20. Bookplate: Coat of Arms with K. K. Van Rensselaer, Esq. inscribed below Bookplate: Coat of Arms with K. K. Van Rensselaer, Esq. inscribed below Peter Rushton Maverick · 1793

On provenance & the public domain

A credit line — the small "Acquisition fund of…" note beside a work on a museum wall — records its provenance: how the object passed from a private hand into a public collection, whether as an outright gift, a bequest left in a will, the purchase from a named endowment, or an entire collection acquired at once. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can study, share, and reproduce them freely. Browsing by provenance follows the human story behind a museum's holdings — the collectors and benefactors whose generosity put these works where the public can see them.

Every work in this catalog is in the public domain; images come from the museums that hold them.