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. 23 shown for “Cooper, John H.” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:35 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.
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
John Cooper Print Machine Patent Model, by Cooper, John H.

John Cooper Print Machine Patent Model

Cooper, John H. · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Crocidium pugetense H. St. John

Crocidium pugetense H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Sisyrinchium inflatum (Suksd.) H. St. John

Sisyrinchium inflatum (Suksd.) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
Center table, by John Henry Belter

Center table

John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa, by John Henry Belter

Sofa

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair, by John Henry Belter

Armchair

John Henry Belter · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by John Finlay

Side Chair

John Finlay · 1815–20

Public domainThe Met
Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist, by Juan Martínez Montañés

Saint John the Baptist

Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Sticherus flabellatus (R. Br.) H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 17/10/79

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. 8697 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1163710 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 23:35 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.