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. 11 shown for “Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827” — 11 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 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.
Rev. Joseph Pilmore, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Rev. Joseph Pilmore

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Thomas Jefferson

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caldwell Sister, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Caldwell Sister

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caldwell Sister, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Caldwell Sister

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. James Smith and Grandson, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Mrs. James Smith and Grandson

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colonel John Cox, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Colonel John Cox

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capt. John Gassoway, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Capt. John Gassoway

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General John Cadwalader, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

General John Cadwalader

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca. 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Duc de Liancourt, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Le Duc de Liancourt

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca.1794-1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matthias and Thomas Bordley, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Matthias and Thomas Bordley

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · 1767

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 09:44 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.