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 “Darley, Felix Octavius Carr” — 60 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:06 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.
John Eliot Preaching to the Indians, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

John Eliot Preaching to the Indians

Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Public domainThe Met
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, by James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896

Felix Octavius Carr Darley

James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General George B. McClellan, by John Quincy Adams Ward

General George B. McClellan

John Quincy Adams Ward · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Wyoming, by Holbrooke, W. H.

Wyoming

Holbrooke, W. H. · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Cartouche, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Allegorical Cartouche

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1842–88

Public domainThe Met
Felix Darley

Felix Darley

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Rowdy Party, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

A Rowdy Party

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (broken shoe), by Stephen Alonzo Schoff, born Danville, VT 1818-died Norfolk, CT 1904

Untitled (broken shoe)

Stephen Alonzo Schoff, born Danville, VT 1818-died Norfolk, CT 1904 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"On the Corniche Road," an early idea for "Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

"On the Corniche Road," an early idea for "Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1866

Public domainThe Met
The Encounter, by James King, n.d.

The Encounter

James King, n.d. · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uncle Toby and the Fly, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Uncle Toby and the Fly, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Felix Darley

Felix Darley

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1852

Public domainThe Met
Felix Darley

Felix Darley

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A train in a landscape, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

A train in a landscape

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1845–88

Public domainThe Met
John Pendleton Kennedy, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888

John Pendleton Kennedy

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parson Wells and his Wife, from Judd's "Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Parson Wells and his Wife, from Judd's "Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1856

Public domainThe Met
(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Telling His Fabulous Story, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Telling His Fabulous Story

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1879

Public domainThe Met
George Brinton McClellan, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888

George Brinton McClellan

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triumph of Patriotism– Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783, by Alexander Hay Ritchie

Triumph of Patriotism– Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783

Alexander Hay Ritchie · 1858

Public domainThe Met
(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Serving Liquor to the Strange Men in the Mountains, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Serving Liquor to the Strange Men in the Mountains

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1879

Public domainThe Met
(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Amusing Children, by Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Amusing Children

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848

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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 0 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. 9673 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-01 02:06 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.