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 “Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:26 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.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts

Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts

Artist not stated in the record · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 10, 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Record of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 27, 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ansanus, by Simone Martini

Saint Ansanus

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · November 12, 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Account of taxable property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 24, 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 15, 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with Gloves, by Corneille de Lyon

Portrait of a Man with Gloves

Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Simone Martini

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 23, 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Record of taxes on property, including enslaved persons, owned by John Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 2, 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Record of taxable property, included enslaved persons, owned by Edward Rouzee

Artist not stated in the record · October 22, 1841

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. 162 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. 3292795 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 12:26 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.