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. 18 shown for “Christina Georgina Rossetti” — 48 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 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.
The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems

Christina Georgina Rossetti · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Golden head by golden head, for "The Goblin Market", by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Golden head by golden head, for "The Goblin Market"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buy from us with a golden curl, for "The Goblin Market", by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Buy from us with a golden curl, for "The Goblin Market"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1861–62

Public domainThe Met
Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Rossetti's House, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

Rossetti's House

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf

Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Hares, by William Bell Scott

Two Hares

William Bell Scott · 1865–90

Public domainThe Met
Chrysopogon nigritanus (Benth.) Veldkamp

Chrysopogon nigritanus (Benth.) Veldkamp

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Globularia incanescens Viv.

Globularia incanescens Viv.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristida adscensionis L.

Aristida adscensionis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Georgina Linen Ryerson, by Andrew W. Jordan, c. 1805 - ?

Georgina Linen Ryerson

Andrew W. Jordan, c. 1805 - ? · c. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine), by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine)

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1863-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf

Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla

Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1887

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 941 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-02 06:44 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.