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. 14 shown for “Charles Heath” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:28 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.
Oriental Head, by Charles Heath

Oriental Head

Charles Heath · ca. 1803

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin West, by Charles Heath, 1785 - 1848

Benjamin West

Charles Heath, 1785 - 1848 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hostess and Sly (Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Scene 1), by Charles Heath

Hostess and Sly (Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Scene 1)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
"The Columbiad" -- Cornwallis Resigning his Sword to Washington, by James Heath, 1757 - 1834

"The Columbiad" -- Cornwallis Resigning his Sword to Washington

James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coriolanus and Aufidius (Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 4, Scene 5), by Charles Heath

Coriolanus and Aufidius (Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 4, Scene 5)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7), by Charles Heath

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)

Charles Heath · 1825–33

Public domainThe Met
Anne Page, Slender and Simple (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1), by Charles Heath

Anne Page, Slender and Simple (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Aaron and Tamora (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 2, Scene 3), by Charles Heath

Aaron and Tamora (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 2, Scene 3)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Boar's Head Tavern: Prince Hal, Falstaff and Poins (Shakespeare, First Part of Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4), by Charles Heath

Boar's Head Tavern: Prince Hal, Falstaff and Poins (Shakespeare, First Part of Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
The Lover, from the Seven Ages of Man (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, scene 7), by Charles Heath

The Lover, from the Seven Ages of Man (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, scene 7)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Beatrice and Benedick (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 3), by Charles Heath

Beatrice and Benedick (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2, Scene 3)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Queen Margaret and Suffolk (Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2), by Charles Heath

Queen Margaret and Suffolk (Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Malvolio (Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5), by Charles Heath

Malvolio (Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

Public domainThe Met
Cordelia and King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7), by Charles Heath

Cordelia and King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)

Charles Heath · 1825–40

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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 129471 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 09:28 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.