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 and Abigail” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:11 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.
David and Abigail

David and Abigail

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams

Artist not stated in the record · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

David

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1408–10

Public domainThe Met
Abigail Powers Fillmore, by Unidentified Artist

Abigail Powers Fillmore

Unidentified Artist · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Abigail, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

David and Abigail

Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Public domainThe Met
Abigail Goodwin, by Unidentified Artist

Abigail Goodwin

Unidentified Artist · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. John Adams, by Unidentified Artist

Mrs. John Adams

Unidentified Artist · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King David

Head of King David

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Public domainThe Met
Abigail Shaw Barclay (nee Shaw), by Unidentified

Abigail Shaw Barclay (nee Shaw)

Unidentified · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abigail and David

Abigail and David

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. William S. Smith, by Unidentified Artist

Mrs. William S. Smith

Unidentified Artist · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Mary Abigail Willing Coale, by Thomas Sully, born Horncastle, England 1783-died Philadelphia, PA 1872

Mary Abigail Willing Coale

Thomas Sully, born Horncastle, England 1783-died Philadelphia, PA 1872 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
Songs of the Hutchinson Family, by G. and W. Endicott Lithography, active c. 1841 - c. 1849

Songs of the Hutchinson Family

G. and W. Endicott Lithography, active c. 1841 - c. 1849 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
White House China of John and Abigail Adams, Arts and Industries Building, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

White House China of John and Abigail Adams, Arts and Industries Building

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath

Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1772

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel

Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Public domainThe Met
Coronation of Womanhood, by Kurz & Allison Lithography Company, c. 1880 - 1899

Coronation of Womanhood

Kurz & Allison Lithography Company, c. 1880 - 1899 · 1884

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. 8362 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1528363 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 20:11 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.