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. 15 shown for “Dutchman's Pipe” — 43 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:57 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.
High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift, by Thomas Rowlandson

High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift

Thomas Rowlandson · November 12, 1798

Public domainThe Met
Dutchman's Pipe, by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Dutchman's Pipe

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift, by Thomas Rowlandson

High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift

Thomas Rowlandson · November 12, 1798

Public domainThe Met
Dutchman's Pipe

Dutchman's Pipe

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutchman with a Servant, by Kawahara Keiga

Dutchman with a Servant

Kawahara Keiga · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dutchman's Pipe

Dutchman's Pipe

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipevine, Dutchman's Pipe

Pipevine, Dutchman's Pipe

Artist not stated in the record · 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutchman's Breeches (Bikukulla cucullaria), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Dutchman's Breeches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutchman's Breetches (Bikukulla cucullaria), by Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940

Dutchman's Breetches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940 · 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flying Dutchman, by Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918

The Flying Dutchman

Elbridge Kingsley, born Carthage, OH 1842-died New York City 1918 · published 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flying Dutchman, by Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Flying Dutchman

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917 · completed by 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation Quilt, by Ira Blount

Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation Quilt

Ira Blount · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madia citrigracilis D.D. Keck

Madia citrigracilis D.D. Keck

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caltha palustris L.

Caltha palustris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl

Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1883

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12198 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-26 19:57 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.