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 “Harry Powell” — 56 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:53 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.
Fan-shaped vase, by Harry Powell

Fan-shaped vase

Harry Powell · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Compote, by Harry Powell, English, 1870 - 1920

Compote

Harry Powell, English, 1870 - 1920 · ca. 1890–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall-stemmed vase, by Harry Powell

Tall-stemmed vase

Harry Powell · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Mentha canadensis L.

Mentha canadensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tear wine glass, by Harry Powell

Tear wine glass

Harry Powell · ca. 1899

Public domainThe Met
Clematis viorna L.

Clematis viorna L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with knopped stem, by Harry Powell

Vase with knopped stem

Harry Powell · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Houstonia longifolia Gaertn.

Houstonia longifolia Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed goblet with bulging bowl, by Philip Webb

Footed goblet with bulging bowl

Philip Webb · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Polygonum tenue F. Michx.

Polygonum tenue F. Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery, by James Gillray

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery

James Gillray · March 13, 1807

Public domainThe Met
Coreopsis tripteris L.

Coreopsis tripteris L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera gaura W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Oenothera gaura W.L. Wagner & Hoch

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Teucrium canadense L.

Teucrium canadense L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo, by Francisco de Zurbarán

Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39

Public domainThe Met
Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.

Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Public domainThe Met
Ageratina altissima (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Ageratina altissima (L.) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Paronychia fastigiata var. pumila (Alph. Wood) Fernald

Paronychia fastigiata var. pumila (Alph. Wood) Fernald

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Public domainThe Met
Asclepias incarnata L.

Asclepias incarnata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1937

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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. 67252 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 2026-09-06 20:53 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.