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 “Clark, active 1890's” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:03 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.
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Fords Furniture Store, Watsonville, California], by Clark

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Fords Furniture Store, Watsonville, California]

Clark · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Caroline Harrison, by Clark, active 1890's

Caroline Harrison

Clark, active 1890's · c. 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by Robert Nunns

Square Piano

Robert Nunns · 1853

Public domainThe Met
William Franklin Draper, by Maurice W. Clark, active 1860s - 1890s

William Franklin Draper

Maurice W. Clark, active 1860s - 1890s · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer with a Fan, by Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Scirpoides mexicana (C.B. Clarke ex Britton) Goetgh. ex C. S. Reid & J.R. Carter

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
William Clarke, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

William Clarke

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Van Rensselaer Heir and Enslaved Youth, by John Heaton

Van Rensselaer Heir and Enslaved Youth

John Heaton · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Clark S. Edwards

Clark S. Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Lumbermen's Camp, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Lumbermen's Camp

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by D. & J. Henderson Flint Stoneware Manufactory

Pitcher

D. & J. Henderson Flint Stoneware Manufactory · 1829–33

Public domainThe Met
Clarke S. Edwards

Clarke S. Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Clarke S. Edwards

Clarke S. Edwards

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), by Jean Clouet

Guillaume Budé (1467–1540)

Jean Clouet · ca. 1536

Public domainThe Met
Selliguea crenatopinnata (C.B. Clarke) S. L. Yu et al.

Selliguea crenatopinnata (C.B. Clarke) S. L. Yu et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 1893 to 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 1896

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. 736 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 516 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-06 05:03 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.