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. 14 shown for “Alfred Benjamin Wyon” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:23 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.
Daniel Maclise, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

Daniel Maclise

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1875

Public domainThe Met
UK Post Office Notice with attached 2d postal stationery specimen

UK Post Office Notice with attached 2d postal stationery specimen

Artist not stated in the record · April 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Memory of the Visit of the Shah of Persia to the City of London, June 20, 1873, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

In Memory of the Visit of the Shah of Persia to the City of London, June 20, 1873

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. & Frém.) S. Watson

Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. & Frém.) S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Memory of the Visit of the Turkish Sultan Abdul-Aziz to London, 1867, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

In Memory of the Visit of the Turkish Sultan Abdul-Aziz to London, 1867

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1867

Public domainThe Met
To Commemorate the Arrival in London of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to Wed Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in March, 1863, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

To Commemorate the Arrival in London of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to Wed Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in March, 1863

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's for the Recovery of the Prince of Wales from Typhoid Fever, February 27, 1872, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's for the Recovery of the Prince of Wales from Typhoid Fever, February 27, 1872

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Sydney International Exhibition Medal, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

Sydney International Exhibition Medal

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Victoria Calcutta Exhibition, 1883–84, by Alfred Benjamin Wyon

Victoria Calcutta Exhibition, 1883–84

Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1883–84

Public domainThe Met
The Opening of the New Council Chamber of the Guildhall, London, October 2, 1884, by Joseph Shepherd Wyon

The Opening of the New Council Chamber of the Guildhall, London, October 2, 1884

Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Princess Alexandra Welcomed to England, by Joseph Shepherd Wyon

Princess Alexandra Welcomed to England

Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Opening of the New Buildings of the City of London School by the Prince and Princess of Wales, December 12, 1882, by Joseph Shepherd Wyon

Opening of the New Buildings of the City of London School by the Prince and Princess of Wales, December 12, 1882

Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1882

Public domainThe Met
To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866, by Joseph Shepherd Wyon

To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866

Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1866

Public domainThe Met
To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866, by Joseph Shepherd Wyon

To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866

Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1866

Public domainThe Met
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. 120 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. 37904 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 05:23 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.