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 “Count Anthony Hamilton” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 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.
Mémoires du Comte de Grammont : histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous Charles II / par Antoine Hamilton ; préface et notes par Benjamin Pifteau, by Count Anthony Hamilton

Mémoires du Comte de Grammont : histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous Charles II / par Antoine Hamilton ; préface et notes par Benjamin Pifteau

Count Anthony Hamilton · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Spiraea bumalda 'Anthony Waterer'

Spiraea bumalda 'Anthony Waterer'

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Roch, by Francesco Francia

Saint Roch

Francesco Francia · 1502

Public domainThe Met
Podolepis lessonii (Cass.) Benth.

Podolepis lessonii (Cass.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick, by Anthony van Dyck

Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1632–35

Public domainThe Met
Asplenium praemorsum Sw.

Asplenium praemorsum Sw.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study Head of a Young Woman, by Anthony van Dyck

Study Head of a Young Woman

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20

Public domainThe Met
Indigofera mucronata Lam.

Indigofera mucronata Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Girolamo dai Libri

Madonna and Child with Saints

Girolamo dai Libri · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Gynoxys calyculisolvens Hieron.

Gynoxys calyculisolvens Hieron.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/9/65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Gynoxys costihirsuta Cuatrec.

Gynoxys costihirsuta Cuatrec.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for an Equestrian Portrait, Possibly that of Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg; verso: Various Studies of Statues and Figures, Including the Venus Pudica and Scipio and his Lictor, by Anthony van Dyck

Study for an Equestrian Portrait, Possibly that of Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg; verso: Various Studies of Statues and Figures, Including the Venus Pudica and Scipio and his Lictor

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1628–32

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus curvifolius (Kunze) B. Øllg.

Phlegmariurus curvifolius (Kunze) B. Øllg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Before Pilate

Christ Before Pilate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus reflexus (Lam.) B. Øllg.

Phlegmariurus reflexus (Lam.) B. Øllg.

Artist not stated in the record · 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harrowing of Hell

The Harrowing of Hell

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Jamesonia scalaris Kunze

Jamesonia scalaris Kunze

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels, by Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels

Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) · 1493–95

Public domainThe Met
Vittaria ruiziana Fée

Vittaria ruiziana Fée

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1965

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
Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Presentation in the Temple

The Presentation in the Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J. Sm.

Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 1965

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. 196 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 6378098 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 2026-09-02 17:23 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.