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. 14 shown for “Harriet Goodhue Hosmer” — 42 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:40 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.
Daphne, by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

Daphne

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer · 1853, carved 1854

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, by Unidentified Artist

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

Unidentified Artist · c. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer · 1853, cast after 1853

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, by Jeremiah Gurney & Sons, active 1860 - 1875

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

Jeremiah Gurney & Sons, active 1860 - 1875 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Hosmer, by James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896

Harriet Hosmer

James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Hosmer, by Black & Case, active 1864 - 1867

Harriet Hosmer

Black & Case, active 1864 - 1867 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, by Sir William Boxall, 1800 - 1879

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

Sir William Boxall, 1800 - 1879 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Puck, by Harriet Hosmer, born Watertown, MA 1830-died Watertown, MA 1908

Puck

Harriet Hosmer, born Watertown, MA 1830-died Watertown, MA 1908 · modeled 1854, carved 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Will o' the Wisp, by Harriet Hosmer, born Watertown, MA 1830-died Watertown, MA 1908

Will o' the Wisp

Harriet Hosmer, born Watertown, MA 1830-died Watertown, MA 1908 · modeled 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hezekiah Lord Hosmer, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Hezekiah Lord Hosmer

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · c. 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stampless Cover

Stampless Cover

Artist not stated in the record · September 20, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1893

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3277 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-01 14:40 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.