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. 22 shown for “Edward Francis Burney” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 05:10 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.
Danae and Perseus Exposed, by Edward Francis Burney

Danae and Perseus Exposed

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Orthocarpus lacerus Benth.

Orthocarpus lacerus Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus and Andromeda, by Edward Francis Burney

Perseus and Andromeda

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Castilleja pinetorum Fernald

Castilleja pinetorum Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pelasgus Civilizes the Greeks, by Edward Francis Burney

Pelasgus Civilizes the Greeks

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Mimulus guttatus var. puberulus (Greene) A.L. Grant

Mimulus guttatus var. puberulus (Greene) A.L. Grant

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Death of Polyxena, by Edward Francis Burney

Death of Polyxena

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon azureus Benth.

Penstemon azureus Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Colossus of Rhodes, by Edward Francis Burney

The Colossus of Rhodes

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Mimulus pulsiferae A. Gray

Mimulus pulsiferae A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage of Telephus and Auge prevented, by Edward Francis Burney

The Marriage of Telephus and Auge prevented

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon deustus var. heterander (Torr. & A. Gray) Cronquist

Penstemon deustus var. heterander (Torr. & A. Gray) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Death of Aridaeus and Eurydice, by Edward Francis Burney

Death of Aridaeus and Eurydice

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Mimulus torreyi A. Gray

Mimulus torreyi A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Origin of Painting, by Edward Francis Burney

The Origin of Painting

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla tilingii (Regel) Greene var. tilingii

Potentilla tilingii (Regel) Greene var. tilingii

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fortitude of Harmonia, by Edward Francis Burney

Fortitude of Harmonia

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Madia citrigracilis D.D. Keck

Madia citrigracilis D.D. Keck

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus returning in Triumph from India, by Edward Francis Burney

Bacchus returning in Triumph from India

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
George Francis Train, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

George Francis Train

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tymicha and Millius before Dionysius, by Edward Francis Burney

Tymicha and Millius before Dionysius

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Pericles Attends the Lectures of Aspasia, by Edward Francis Burney

Pericles Attends the Lectures of Aspasia

Edward Francis Burney · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
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. 443 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. 196778 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 05:10 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.