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 “Bromley Hall Printworks” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:56 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.
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bannister Hall Printworks

Textile

Bannister Hall Printworks · 1816–1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Bannister Hall Printworks

Fragment

Bannister Hall Printworks · 1804–06

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bannister Hall Printworks

Textile

Bannister Hall Printworks · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bannister Hall Printworks

Textile

Bannister Hall Printworks · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pictorial print, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Pictorial print

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Border, by Charles Swainson, English

Border

Charles Swainson, English · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece with Roman chariot and ruins (Furnishing fabric), by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece with Roman chariot and ruins (Furnishing fabric)

Bromley Hall Printworks · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Large Flowers, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Large Flowers

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · designed 1765–1770, printed after 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece

Bromley Hall Printworks · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tinian, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Tinian

Bromley Hall Printworks · 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers

Bromley Hall Printworks · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763

Textile

Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England, 1712–1763 · 1805–10

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. 27 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. 29538 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-01 10:56 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.