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 “Embroidered picture of pastoral scene” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:37 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.
Embroidered picture of pastoral scene

Embroidered picture of pastoral scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler, by Julia Ann Fitch

Sampler

Julia Ann Fitch · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Elizabeth Folwell's School

Embroidered Picture

Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture

Picture

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Shepherdess of the Alps, by Evelina Hull

The Shepherdess of the Alps

Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene

Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

The Adoration of the Magi

Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture with pastoral scene

Embroidered picture with pastoral scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture frame

Embroidered picture frame

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Winter" Needlework Picture, by Hannah Jane Robinson

"Winter" Needlework Picture

Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hector Taking Leave of His Family, by Lucy Coit Huntington

Hector Taking Leave of His Family

Lucy Coit Huntington · 1810

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man Holding a Book, by Master of the View of Saint Gudula

Young Man Holding a Book

Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
Beaded picture

Beaded picture

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 107 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. 2862860 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 05:37 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.