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. 16 shown for “Franklin Peale” — 45 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:46 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.
Medal of Zachary Taylor, by Franklin Peale

Medal of Zachary Taylor

Franklin Peale · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Franklin and Caroline Peale, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Portrait of Franklin and Caroline Peale

Peale, Titian Ramsay

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal of James Knox Polk, by Franklin Peale

Medal of James Knox Polk

Franklin Peale · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Franklin, by Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin, by Charles Willson Peale

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Willson Peale · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Franklin, by Unidentified Artist

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist · c. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808), by John Hoppner

Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)

John Hoppner · 1793

Public domainThe Met
Franklin School, Washington DC, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Franklin School, Washington DC

Peale, Titian Ramsay

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Franklin School, Washington DC, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Franklin School, Washington DC

Peale, Titian Ramsay

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Duc de Liancourt, by Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827

Le Duc de Liancourt

Charles Willson Peale, born Queen Anne's County, MD 1741-died Philadelphia, PA 1827 · ca.1794-1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens Peale, by Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

Rubens Peale

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titian and Rembrandt Peale, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Titian and Rembrandt Peale

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rembrandt Peale, by Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Rembrandt Peale

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait, by Sarah Miriam Peale, 19 May 1800 - 4 Feb 1885

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait

Sarah Miriam Peale, 19 May 1800 - 4 Feb 1885 · c. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rembrandt Peale, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Rembrandt Peale

Peale, Titian Ramsay

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24159 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 07:46 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.