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. 12 shown for “Francis Wheatley” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:00 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Saithwaite Family, by Francis Wheatley

The Saithwaite Family

Francis Wheatley · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
A Fair – A Group of Gypsies – Men and Women in Rustic Clothes in Front of Two Makeshift Tents, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Fair – A Group of Gypsies – Men and Women in Rustic Clothes in Front of Two Makeshift Tents

Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Knives, Scissors, and Razors to Grind, by Giovanni Vendramini

Knives, Scissors, and Razors to Grind

Giovanni Vendramini · 1795

Public domainThe Met
A Bacchante, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Bacchante

Thomas Rowlandson · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter, by Thomas Rowlandson

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter

Thomas Rowlandson · 1785–95

Public domainThe Met
Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter, by Thomas Rowlandson

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter

Thomas Rowlandson · 1785–95

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on Rocks and Smoking a Pipe, Next to a Standing Young Woman, with a Second Woman Behind, by Thomas Rowlandson

Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on Rocks and Smoking a Pipe, Next to a Standing Young Woman, with a Second Woman Behind

Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on the Ground Resting an Elbow on a Fishing Basket, Another Man Opposite Mending a Sail, and a Woman Standing Between Them Carrying a Basket on Her Back, by Thomas Rowlandson

Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on the Ground Resting an Elbow on a Fishing Basket, Another Man Opposite Mending a Sail, and a Woman Standing Between Them Carrying a Basket on Her Back

Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

Public domainThe Met
A New Love Song only ha'penny a piece, by Anthony Cardon

A New Love Song only ha'penny a piece

Anthony Cardon · 1796

Public domainThe Met
Florizel, Perdita, etc. in the Shepherd's Cot (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3), by James Fittler

Florizel, Perdita, etc. in the Shepherd's Cot (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3)

James Fittler · August 1, 1792

Public domainThe Met
Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by John Raphael Smith

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774

Public domainThe Met
Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by John Raphael Smith

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774

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. 15 matched · 15 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:00 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.