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 “C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie)” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:35 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.
Event handkerchief, by C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie)

Event handkerchief

C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie) · 1819

Public domainThe Met
In Memory of Washington, by Colin Gillespie, Scottish, n.d.

In Memory of Washington

Colin Gillespie, Scottish, n.d. · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657), by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria simulans Rose

Echeveria simulans Rose

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria simulans Rose

Echeveria simulans Rose

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frog Pendant

Frog Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 550–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria simulans Rose

Echeveria simulans Rose

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd's Idyll, by François Boucher

Shepherd's Idyll

François Boucher · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washerwomen, by François Boucher

Washerwomen

François Boucher · 1768

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with Apes

Beaker with Apes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, by Auguste Renoir

Bouquet of Chrysanthemums

Auguste Renoir · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Arceuthobium hawksworthii Wiens & C.G. Shaw bis

Artist not stated in the record · 1981

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. 66 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. 47527 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 09:35 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.