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 “Dent” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:22 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.
Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory

Morte d'Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory · 1893

Public domainThe Met
John Herbert Dent, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

John Herbert Dent

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
After, by Dent

After

Dent · 1790–1810

Public domainThe Met
Julia Dent Grant, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Julia Dent Grant

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Before, by Dent

Before

Dent · 1790–1810

Public domainThe Met
President Grant and His Family, by Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906

President Grant and His Family

Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scholars at a Lecture, by Dent

Scholars at a Lecture

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
General Grant and Family, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

General Grant and Family

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Distressed Poet, by Dent

The Distressed Poet

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
General Grant and His Family, by A. L. Weise & Co., active 1865 - 1912?

General Grant and His Family

A. L. Weise & Co., active 1865 - 1912? · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Brought to Pharoah's Daughter, by Dent

Moses Brought to Pharoah's Daughter

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Grant and His Family, by William Sartain, 1843 - 1924

Grant and His Family

William Sartain, 1843 - 1924 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The First Stage of Cruelty, by Dent

The First Stage of Cruelty

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
General Grant and His Family, by Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906

General Grant and His Family

Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906 · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paul Before Felix, by Dent

Paul Before Felix

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Acer rubrum L.

Acer rubrum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Company of Undertakers, by Dent

The Company of Undertakers

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter, by Montgomery P. Simons, 1816 - 1859

Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter

Montgomery P. Simons, 1816 - 1859 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Chorus of Singers, by Dent

A Chorus of Singers

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Julia Dent Grant, by Unidentified Artist

Julia Dent Grant

Unidentified Artist · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bruiser, by Dent

The Bruiser

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
General Grant and Family, by Adam B. Walter, 1820 - 14 Oct 1875

General Grant and Family

Adam B. Walter, 1820 - 14 Oct 1875 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Laughing Audience, by Dent

The Laughing Audience

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Frederick D. Grant, by Barr & Young, active 1860s

Frederick D. Grant

Barr & Young, active 1860s · n.d.a.

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. 199 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. 2003 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 00:22 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.