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 “Charles Turner, British, 1773–1857” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:48 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.
Whalers, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whalers

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Dunstanburgh Castle, from "Liber Studiorum," part III, by Charles Turner, British, 1773–1857

Dunstanburgh Castle, from "Liber Studiorum," part III

Charles Turner, British, 1773–1857 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Morpeth, Northumberland, from the Liber Studiorum, by James Mallord William Turner, British, 1775–1851

Morpeth, Northumberland, from the Liber Studiorum

James Mallord William Turner, British, 1775–1851 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of James Gillray

Portrait of James Gillray

Artist not stated in the record · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Washington Irving, Esqr., by Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

Portrait of Washington Irving, Esqr.

Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lake of Zug, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Lake of Zug

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Littleton, by Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

Mrs. Littleton

Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Plain with Old Sarum in the distance, Wiltshire, by William Turner of Oxford

Salisbury Plain with Old Sarum in the distance, Wiltshire

William Turner of Oxford · 1835–45

Public domainThe Met
Rembrandt's Mill, by Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

Rembrandt's Mill

Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · ca. 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott

Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Mughal ruler

Portrait of a Mughal ruler

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Ann Dorothy Martineau, by Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857

Ann Dorothy Martineau

Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857 · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles I (1600–1649), King of England, by Daniël Mijtens

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England

Daniël Mijtens · 1629

Public domainThe Met
Washington Irving, by Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857

Washington Irving

Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857 · 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farm-Yard with the Cock, part IV, plate 17 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Farm-Yard with the Cock, part IV, plate 17 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · March 29, 1809

Public domainThe Met
London Bridge, by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

London Bridge

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake of Thun, Swiss (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 15), by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lake of Thun, Swiss (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 15)

Joseph Mallord William Turner · June 10, 1808

Public domainThe Met
The Taming of the Shrew, by Charles Rolls, English, born 1800-died 1857

The Taming of the Shrew

Charles Rolls, English, born 1800-died 1857

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. 149 matched · 24 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. 93 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 23:48 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.