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. 24 shown for “Group of Men in a Boat” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:15 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Group of Men in a Boat

Group of Men in a Boat

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Princeton Group

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Princeton Group · ca. 540–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Figure and Architectural Sketches with a Boat, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Figure and Architectural Sketches with a Boat

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Beach Scene with People and Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Beach Scene with People and Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy

Model Sailing Boat Transporting a Mummy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1885 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Sporting Boat

Model Sporting Boat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
A Landscape, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

A Landscape

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1850–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Group R

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Group R · ca. 420–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fishermen in Landscape, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Fishermen in Landscape

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1770–1786

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Group E

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Group E · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Whale Hunt by the Emperor Claudius in the harbour at Ostia, pl. 19 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series, by Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618

Whale Hunt by the Emperor Claudius in the harbour at Ostia, pl. 19 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 – 1618 · 1596 or after

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Mannerist Group

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Mannerist Group · ca. 460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Beach with Boats and People, Cullercoats, England, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Beach with Boats and People, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1881–82

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Travelling Boat being Rowed

Travelling Boat being Rowed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
A Hurricane, Growing Hemp, On Abaco Island, A Flower Seller, Conch Divers, from The Century Magazine, February 1887, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

A Hurricane, Growing Hemp, On Abaco Island, A Flower Seller, Conch Divers, from The Century Magazine, February 1887

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora, by Kittos Group

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Kittos Group · ca. 366/365 BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Peddler, A Nassau Gateway, Shark-Fishing--Nassau Bar, from The Century Magazine, February 1887, by Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910

A Peddler, A Nassau Gateway, Shark-Fishing--Nassau Bar, from The Century Magazine, February 1887

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta stamnos (jar), by Group of Polygnotos

Terracotta stamnos (jar)

Group of Polygnotos · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)

Les Jetteurs de Fillets (Casting of Nets)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group, by Derby Porcelain Manufactory

Group

Derby Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Study for Painting "The Landing of Columbus in America," Sala del Minor Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · 1715–18

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. 49132 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 7483787 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 11:15 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.