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 “Fishermen drawing a net” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 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.
Fishermen drawing a net

Fishermen drawing a net

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen by the Sea, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Fishermen by the Sea, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July - August, 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fishermen, by Robert Blyth

Fishermen

Robert Blyth · November 9, 1780

Public domainThe Met
Three Boats with Fishermen Setting Out a Net, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Three Boats with Fishermen Setting Out a Net

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene of hunters, bird catchers, and fishermen

Scene of hunters, bird catchers, and fishermen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen), by Christian Krohg

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)

Christian Krohg · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Fisherman and Women Stowing Nets in a Beached Dory, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel with Netting Quail, by Augustin Hirschvogel

Roundel with Netting Quail

Augustin Hirschvogel · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Fisherman Pulling a Net, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

A Fisherman Pulling a Net

Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1774

Public domainThe Met
Lobster Cove, Manchester, Massachusetts, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Lobster Cove, Manchester, Massachusetts

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Fishermen, by Théodore Géricault

Landscape with Fishermen

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Tuna fishing, by Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635

Tuna fishing

Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635 · ca. 1596 or after

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harbor Scene with a Grotto and Fishermen Hauling in Nets, by Joseph Vernet

Harbor Scene with a Grotto and Fishermen Hauling in Nets

Joseph Vernet

Public domainThe Met
Panels

Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Returning Fishermen, by Tang Di

Returning Fishermen

Tang Di · dated 1342

Public domainThe Met
Le Port de Mer

Le Port de Mer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fishermen with Nets, by John Singer Sargent

Fishermen with Nets

John Singer Sargent · ca. 1875

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen Beaching a Boat, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Fishermen Beaching a Boat, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Fishermen, by Gaspard Dughet

Landscape with Fishermen

Gaspard Dughet · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen on a Rock, by Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915

Fishermen on a Rock

Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · September 8, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Fishermen, by Maerten de Cock

Landscape with Fishermen

Maerten de Cock · ca. 1588–1661

Public domainThe Met
Sailing Boats, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Sailing Boats

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1895–96

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. 131 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1787996 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 09:59 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.