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 “Benjamin Trott” — 54 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:23 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.
Benjamin Kintzing, by Benjamin Trott

Benjamin Kintzing

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
David McClellan, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

David McClellan

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Benjamin Trott

Portrait of a Gentleman

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1798

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B., by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B.

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Henry Durdin, by Benjamin Trott

Alexander Henry Durdin

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Jane Stone, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Jane Stone

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. William Edward Wilmerding (Joanna Mary Gosman), by Benjamin Trott

Mrs. William Edward Wilmerding (Joanna Mary Gosman)

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Miriam Etting Myers, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Miriam Etting Myers

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Benjamin Trott

Portrait of a Gentleman

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Anne Hume Shippen, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

Anne Hume Shippen

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · ca. 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Edward Wilmerding, by Benjamin Trott

William Edward Wilmerding

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
John Cleves Short, by Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

John Cleves Short

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Wood, by Benjamin Trott

George Wood

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by John Roberts, 1768 - 1803

George Washington

John Roberts, 1768 - 1803 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Wagner, by Benjamin Trott

Charles Wagner

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/2/19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Fox, by Benjamin Trott

Mrs. Fox

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis cilianensis (Bellardi) Vignolo ex Janch.

Eragrostis cilianensis (Bellardi) Vignolo ex Janch.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 7/1/19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, by Benjamin Trott

Benjamin Chew Wilcocks

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis sp.

Agrostis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/8/87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Nathaniel Chapman (Rebekah Biddle), by Benjamin Trott

Mrs. Nathaniel Chapman (Rebekah Biddle)

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Floyd, by Benjamin Trott

Charles Floyd

Benjamin Trott · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
Daucus pusillus Michx.

Daucus pusillus Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1958

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 27252 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-28 23:23 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.