OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Abraham Drentwett IV” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:02 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Plate, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Plate

Abraham Drentwett IV · 1769–71

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square dish, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Square dish

Abraham Drentwett IV · 1757–58

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray for écritoire, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Tray for écritoire

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkwell, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Inkwell

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1860-61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sandbox, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Sandbox

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bell, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Bell

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Écuelle, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Écuelle

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chamber candlestick, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Chamber candlestick

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Abraham Lincoln

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand for écuelle, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Stand for écuelle

Abraham Drentwett IV · ca. 1743–45

Public domainThe Met
Freedom to the Slaves, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Freedom to the Slaves

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1864-65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Urn-shaped inkwell with cover on stand, by Abraham Drentwett IV

Urn-shaped inkwell with cover on stand

Abraham Drentwett IV · 1767–69

Public domainThe Met
Nation's Martyr, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Nation's Martyr

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Striking the Rock, by Abraham Bloemaert

Moses Striking the Rock

Abraham Bloemaert · 1596

Public domainThe Met
Honorable Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, by Currier and Ives, 1857-1907

Honorable Abraham Lincoln, 16th President

Currier and Ives, 1857-1907 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters, by Eugène Delacroix

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters

Eugène Delacroix · 1832

Public domainThe Met
Republican Banner for 1860, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Republican Banner for 1860

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 61 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10266 matched · 40 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:02 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.