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 “Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)” — 52 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:11 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.
Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor, by Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)

Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1862

Public domainThe Met
The Maniac (Sheet Music Cover), by Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

The Maniac (Sheet Music Cover)

Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Golden State Entering New York Harbor, by Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)

The Golden State Entering New York Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Marine View, by William Sharp, n.d.

Marine View

William Sharp, n.d. · 1847-1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

Public domainThe Met
A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew (Sheet Music Cover), by Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew (Sheet Music Cover)

Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Daguerreotype self-portrait of Henry Fitz Jr., by Fitz, Henry Jr.

Daguerreotype self-portrait of Henry Fitz Jr.

Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1839-11

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

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Fitz-Greene Halleck

Fitz-Greene Halleck

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1831-33

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Public domainThe Met
Daguerreotype of Baltimore Street Scene, by Fitz, Henry Jr.

Daguerreotype of Baltimore Street Scene

Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1840-1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Bullfight in a Divided Ring

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 201274 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:11 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.