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 “Eliphalet M. Brown Jr.” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:34 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.
Clipper Ship "Sovereign of the Seas", by Eliphalet M. Brown Jr.

Clipper Ship "Sovereign of the Seas"

Eliphalet M. Brown Jr. · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Temple at Tumai Lew Chew, by James Ackerman Lithography Co., active 1845 - 1859

Temple at Tumai Lew Chew

James Ackerman Lithography Co., active 1845 - 1859 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud", by James E. Buttersworth

Clipper Ship "Flying Cloud"

James E. Buttersworth · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Tom Hyer, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Tom Hyer

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Fanny Elssler, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Fanny Elssler

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1840

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

The Nativity

Gerard David · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Passing the Rubicon, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Passing the Rubicon

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage among Trees, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Cottage among Trees

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
First Landing of Americans in Japan, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

First Landing of Americans in Japan

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso), by Karel van Mander I

Samuel Annointing David (recto); Sketch of two figures (verso)

Karel van Mander I · ca. 1591

Public domainThe Met
First Landing of Americans in Japan, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

First Landing of Americans in Japan

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Music-Making Angels, by Albrecht Dürer

Music-Making Angels

Albrecht Dürer · 1521

Public domainThe Met
Return of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron from an Official Visit to the Prince Regent at Shui, Capitol of Lew Chew, June 6th 1853, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Return of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron from an Official Visit to the Prince Regent at Shui, Capitol of Lew Chew, June 6th 1853

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Descent of Christ to Limbo (recto); Coats of Arms of Florentine and Sienese Families (verso), by Domenico Beccafumi

The Descent of Christ to Limbo (recto); Coats of Arms of Florentine and Sienese Families (verso)

Domenico Beccafumi · ca. 1536

Public domainThe Met
Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-hama, Japan, March 8th 1854, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-hama, Japan, March 8th 1854

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple, by Antoine Caron

A Saint Addressing Figures from the Steps of a Temple

Antoine Caron · 1521–99

Public domainThe Met
Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda, Japan, June 8, 1854, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda, Japan, June 8, 1854

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Discovery of the True Cross, by Bernardo Strozzi

The Discovery of the True Cross

Bernardo Strozzi · 1599–1644

Public domainThe Met
Exercise of Troops in Temple Grounds, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Exercise of Troops in Temple Grounds

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate, by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate

Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr., 1816 - 1886 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Saint Catherine

Lucas Cranach the Elder · late 15th–mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Eliphalet Nott, by Martin M. Lawrence, 1809 - 1859

Eliphalet Nott

Martin M. Lawrence, 1809 - 1859 · 1855

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. 308 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1333903 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 11:34 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.