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. 20 shown for “American Anti-Slavery Almanac Vol. II, No. I” — 40 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:29 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.
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival, by Ike no Taiga

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
American Anti-Slavery Almanac Vol. II, No. I

American Anti-Slavery Almanac Vol. II, No. I

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Public domainThe Met
National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XX, No. 19, by National Anti-Slavery Standard, American, 1840 - 1870

National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XX, No. 19

National Anti-Slavery Standard, American, 1840 - 1870 · September 24, 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Piano, by Bartolomeo Cristofori

Grand Piano

Bartolomeo Cristofori · 1720

Public domainThe Met
The Slave's Friend

The Slave's Friend

Artist not stated in the record · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
The North Star, Vol. I No. 37, by The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859

The North Star, Vol. I No. 37

The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · September 8, 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bashi-Bazouk, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9

The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9

Artist not stated in the record · February 25, 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia, by John Targee

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia

John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Public domainThe Met
The North Star, Volume 1, Number 22, by The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859

The North Star, Volume 1, Number 22

The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · May 26, 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans. Translated From the French. To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.

The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans. Translated From the French. To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.

Artist not stated in the record · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of the Present Seat of War, at and Near New York, in An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack for the year of Christian Æra, 1777, by Nathaniel Low

A View of the Present Seat of War, at and Near New York, in An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack for the year of Christian Æra, 1777

Nathaniel Low · 1776

Public domainThe Met
Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata Tortured with Red-Hot Irons

Bernardo Daddi

Public domainThe Met
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

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. 597 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:29 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.