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. 20 shown for “Franz Edmund Weirotter” — 49 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:01 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.
A Visit to Rome in 1764, by Franz Edmund Weirotter

A Visit to Rome in 1764

Franz Edmund Weirotter · 1764

Public domainThe Met
The Camp in the Woods, from "XII Vue de la Normandie..."

The Camp in the Woods, from "XII Vue de la Normandie..."

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harbor Scene, by Joseph Vernet

Harbor Scene

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1764

Public domainThe Met
A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves

A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harbor Scene, by Joseph Vernet

Harbor Scene

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1764

Public domainThe Met
Pont Rustique

Pont Rustique

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
A Castle in Ruins Upon the Banks of the Loire

A Castle in Ruins Upon the Banks of the Loire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crowning with Thorns, by Lucas van Leyden

The Crowning with Thorns

Lucas van Leyden · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait, by Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938

Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Chasse

Reliquary Chasse

Artist not stated in the record · 1207–13

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Pendleton Gaines, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife), by Ford Madox Brown

The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife)

Ford Madox Brown · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Kirby Smith, by Unidentified Artist

Edmund Kirby Smith

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ, by Master Pertoldus

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Master Pertoldus · 1494

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Kirby Smith, by Unidentified Artist

Edmund Kirby Smith

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by South Netherlandish Painter

The Annunciation

South Netherlandish Painter

Public domainThe Met
Edmund Ruffin, by Unidentified Artist

Edmund Ruffin

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edmund Randolph, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Edmund Randolph

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edmund Ruffin, by Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888

Edmund Ruffin

Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · c. 1861

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 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. 8261 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 21:01 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.