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 “Ashley, John T.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 17:21 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.
Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York, by John La Farge

Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York

John La Farge · 1908–9

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus, by Ashley, John T.

Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus

Ashley, John T. · ca 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus, by Ashley, John T.

Patent Model of a Sheet-feed Apparatus

Ashley, John T. · ca 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Trillium maculatum Raf.

Trillium maculatum Raf.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Trillium maculatum f. simulans J. D. Freeman

Trillium maculatum f. simulans J. D. Freeman

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
James M. Ashley

James M. Ashley

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
Aleurites fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw

Aleurites fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1931 to Aug 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Echinocystis sp.

Echinocystis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, by François Boucher

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis australis Mitt.

Philonotis australis Mitt.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Dish, by John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company

Covered Dish

John T. Vansant Manufacturing Company · ca. 1883

Public domainThe Met
Dichodontium tasmanicum (Hook. f.) F. Muell.

Dichodontium tasmanicum (Hook. f.) F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bark "Theoxena", by Latour

The Bark "Theoxena"

Latour · ca.1850

Public domainThe Met
Bartramia papillata Hook. f. & Wilson

Bartramia papillata Hook. f. & Wilson

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sackville Children, by John Hoppner

The Sackville Children

John Hoppner · 1796

Public domainThe Met
James M. Ashley

James M. Ashley

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Communion cup (one of two), by I T

Communion cup (one of two)

I T · 1631/32

Public domainThe Met
James M. Ashley

James M. Ashley

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 3164 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 634233 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-05 17:21 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.