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 “David Claypoole Johnston” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Lock on the Understanding, Heavy Wet, etc., by David Claypoole Johnston

Lock on the Understanding, Heavy Wet, etc.

David Claypoole Johnston · 1832

Public domainThe Met
David Claypoole Johnston Self-Portrait, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

David Claypoole Johnston Self-Portrait

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
At the Waterfall, by David Claypoole Johnston

At the Waterfall

David Claypoole Johnston · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
William F. Johnson, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

William F. Johnson

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1830-37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston, by David Claypoole Johnston

A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston

David Claypoole Johnston · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Thomas S. Hamblin, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Thomas S. Hamblin

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering, by David Claypoole Johnston

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

David Claypoole Johnston · 1830

Public domainThe Met
John Bard, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

John Bard

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Fantastical Parade, New-York, December 2, 1833, by David Claypoole Johnston

Grand Fantastical Parade, New-York, December 2, 1833

David Claypoole Johnston · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Lola Has Come!, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Lola Has Come!

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by David Spinner

Plate

David Spinner · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Washington Allston, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Washington Allston

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered bowl, by David Haring

Covered bowl

David Haring · ca. 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
Jefferson Davis, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Jefferson Davis

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Newhaven Fishwives], by Hill and Adamson

[Newhaven Fishwives]

Hill and Adamson · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Lola Coming, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Lola Coming

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cornelius Vanderbilt I, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Cornelius Vanderbilt I

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1882

Public domainThe Met
John Jeffries, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

John Jeffries

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rustic Interior, by David Ryckaert III

Rustic Interior

David Ryckaert III

Public domainThe Met
Henry Finn and Thomas Kilner, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Henry Finn and Thomas Kilner

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus, by David Ryckaert III

The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus

David Ryckaert III

Public domainThe Met
A Beautiful Goblet of White-House Champagne, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

A Beautiful Goblet of White-House Champagne

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasants Dancing and Feasting, by David Teniers the Younger

Peasants Dancing and Feasting

David Teniers the Younger · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Webster, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Daniel Webster

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1831

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. 62 matched · 24 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. 94631 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 07:39 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.