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. 21 shown for “George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885” — 51 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:38 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.
Luigi Palma di Cesnola, by George Edward Perine

Luigi Palma di Cesnola

George Edward Perine · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Albert Sidney Johnston, by George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885

Albert Sidney Johnston

George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
John McCloskey, by George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885

John McCloskey

George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of an Old Woman, by Jacob Backer

Portrait of an Old Woman

Jacob Backer

Public domainThe Met
Richard Stoddert Ewell, by J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881

Richard Stoddert Ewell

J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage", by John Doyle

Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage"

John Doyle · May 24, 1837

Public domainThe Met
Sterling Price, by George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885

Sterling Price

George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · c. 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee, by J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881

Robert E. Lee

J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

Public domainThe Met
John Charles Fremont, by George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885

John Charles Fremont

George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man with a Beard, by Rembrandt

Man with a Beard

Rembrandt

Public domainThe Met
Winfield Scott and Generals, by H. B. Hall

Winfield Scott and Generals

H. B. Hall · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Book page with reproductions of Reconstruction-era prints

Book page with reproductions of Reconstruction-era prints

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874 and 1876; printed later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ariadne, by George Frederic Watts

Ariadne

George Frederic Watts · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower, by George E. Perine, born South Orange, NJ 1837-died Brooklyn, NY 1885

Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower

George E. Perine, born South Orange, NJ 1837-died Brooklyn, NY 1885 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Legend of the Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Legend of the Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1892

Public domainThe Met
Robt. B. Elliot, by George Edward Perrine, 9 Jul 1837 - 3 Feb 1885

Robt. B. Elliot

George Edward Perrine, 9 Jul 1837 - 3 Feb 1885 · c. 1874-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulysses S. Grant and Staff, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 364572 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 2026-09-05 06:38 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.