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 “Doctors Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:47 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.
Christ among the Doctors, by Abraham Hondius

Christ among the Doctors

Abraham Hondius · 1668

Public domainThe Met
Doctors Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Doctors Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Hospital, Middlesex, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Hospital, Middlesex, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
House of Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

House of Commons, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64, by Adrien Tournachon

Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64

Adrien Tournachon · 1854–56, printed 1862

Public domainThe Met
Common Council Chamber, Guildhall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Common Council Chamber, Guildhall, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Book Peddler, by Master of the Canesso Peddler

A Book Peddler

Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doctors' Commons, by Thomas Rowlandson

Doctors' Commons

Thomas Rowlandson · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome as Scholar, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?), by Bicci di Lorenzo

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)

Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doctor Botherum, The Montebank, by Thomas Rowlandson

Doctor Botherum, The Montebank

Thomas Rowlandson · March 6, 1800

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancestor figure, by Teke artist

Ancestor figure

Teke artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 430586 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 10:47 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.