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. 21 shown for “Allan Ramsay” — 49 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 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.
A Country Girl at Surrentum, by Allan Ramsay

A Country Girl at Surrentum

Allan Ramsay · September 1776

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Lady Boyd

Portrait of Lady Boyd

Artist not stated in the record · 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Right Honorable Sir Charles Pratt, Knight, now Lord Camden, by John Faber, the Younger

The Right Honorable Sir Charles Pratt, Knight, now Lord Camden

John Faber, the Younger · 1765–68

Public domainThe Met
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, by Charles Spooner, c. 1720 - 5 Dec 1767

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

Charles Spooner, c. 1720 - 5 Dec 1767 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Pitt the Elder, by William Hoare

William Pitt the Elder

William Hoare · ca. 1754

Public domainThe Met
David Ramsay, by Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860

David Ramsay

Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860 · c. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust-length portrait study of a young woman with a striped shawl, by Joseph van Aken

Bust-length portrait study of a young woman with a striped shawl

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait, by Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885

Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait

Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings, by Joseph van Aken

Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait, by Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885

Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait

Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885 · c. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man, by Joseph van Aken

Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
David Ramsay, by Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

David Ramsay

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-length portrait study of a young woman with long hair, by Joseph van Aken

Half-length portrait study of a young woman with long hair

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Titian Ramsay Peale II, by Unidentified Artist

Titian Ramsay Peale II

Unidentified Artist · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog, by Joseph van Aken

Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Eleanor Ramsay Fitzwilliam, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Eleanor Ramsay Fitzwilliam

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half-length portrait study of a wigged man, by Joseph van Aken

Half-length portrait study of a wigged man

Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Public domainThe Met
Charles Ramsay, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Ramsay

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled Album by Titian Ramsay Peale, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Untitled Album by Titian Ramsay Peale

Peale, Titian Ramsay · ca 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Back Parlor, by Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885

Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Back Parlor

Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Front Parlor, by Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885

Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Front Parlor

Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1862

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5392 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-06 02:06 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.