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. 21 shown for “Charles Loyal” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:25 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.
Purim plate, by Charles Loyal

Purim plate

Charles Loyal · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Theodore Parker, by Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865

Theodore Parker

Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tureen with covered stand, by Charles Loyal

Tureen with covered stand

Charles Loyal · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Theodore Parker, by Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865

Theodore Parker

Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
New England Loyal Publication Society No. 147

New England Loyal Publication Society No. 147

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andromache and Astyanax, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Andromache and Astyanax

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · ?1813–17; 1823–24?

Public domainThe Met
The Loyal Protestant and The Domestick Intelligence newspaper

The Loyal Protestant and The Domestick Intelligence newspaper

Artist not stated in the record · April 2, 1681

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle

Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle

Artist not stated in the record · September 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Isaac G. Tyson

Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Isaac G. Tyson · November 19, 1863

Public domainThe Met
Xin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖

Xin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self Portrait, by Philippe Laurent Roland

Self Portrait

Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
John Beale Bordley, by Joseph Robinson, English, born ca. 1768-died ?

John Beale Bordley

Joseph Robinson, English, born ca. 1768-died ? · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris cochleata (D. Don) C. Chr.

Dryopteris cochleata (D. Don) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /9/56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant for Horse Trappings

Pendant for Horse Trappings

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cyrtomium caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Presl

Cyrtomium caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /9/56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nathaniel Ramsay, by Charles Willson Peale

Nathaniel Ramsay

Charles Willson Peale · ca. 1793

Public domainThe Met
Honor from the series "The Honors", by Bernard van Orley

Honor from the series "The Honors"

Bernard van Orley · designed before 1520, woven between 1525 and 1532

Public domainThe Met
Berthe, by James Tissot

Berthe

James Tissot · 1883

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. 28 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. 127496 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 20:25 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.