Original art can be more economical than licensing.

Evidence

I was able to purchase an original engraved map from the 1790s, long since out of copyright protection, for less than a hundred dollars on eBay, and in an antiquarian print shop in Paris I found an original nineteenth-century engraving of the portrait from the 1880s for about four hundred dollars. — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 597

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 597
• XREF: connects to: Works saturated with cultural references require massive licensing of cultural memory. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2154