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 “Henderson, George” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:20 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.
[Col. Topham Endeavouring, With His Squirt, to Extinguish the Genius of Holman], by Thomas Rowlandson

[Col. Topham Endeavouring, With His Squirt, to Extinguish the Genius of Holman]

Thomas Rowlandson · December 10, 1784

Public domainThe Met
Swainsonia Violacea, Plate LXIX from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886

Swainsonia Violacea, Plate LXIX from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886 · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello"), by Francesco Bartolozzi

John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello")

Francesco Bartolozzi · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus Hybridus Multiflorus, Plate LI from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886

Dianthus Hybridus Multiflorus, Plate LI from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886 · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's Othello), by Francesco Bartolozzi

John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's Othello)

Francesco Bartolozzi · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Hyacinth, Duke of Wellington, Plate from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886

Hyacinth, Duke of Wellington, Plate from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886 · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Col. Topham Endeavoring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman], by Thomas Rowlandson

[Col. Topham Endeavoring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman]

Thomas Rowlandson · [October 5, 1785], reissued 1793

Public domainThe Met
Primula Sinensis Filicifolia Rubra, Plate LXVIII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886

Primula Sinensis Filicifolia Rubra, Plate LXVIII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886 · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Col. Topham Endeavoring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman, by Thomas Rowlandson

Col. Topham Endeavoring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman

Thomas Rowlandson · October 5, 1785

Public domainThe Met
Dianthuis verschaffelthii, Plate XXXVI from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by Miss Sowerby, English, active 19th c.

Dianthuis verschaffelthii, Plate XXXVI from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

Miss Sowerby, English, active 19th c. · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth, by John Jones

Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth

John Jones · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Stokesia Cyanea, Plate XLII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by Mrs. Withers, English, active 19th c.

Stokesia Cyanea, Plate XLII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

Mrs. Withers, English, active 19th c. · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bum-bemsue, by Thomas Martin Easterly

Bum-bemsue

Thomas Martin Easterly · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Primula Praenitens, Var. Atrorosea Plena, Plate LXII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet", by E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886

Primula Praenitens, Var. Atrorosea Plena, Plate LXII from Edward George Henderson's "The Illustrated Bouquet"

E. G. Henderson and Son, English, ca. 1859 - 1886 · ca. 1857–1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Newspaper and Envelope Addressing Machine, by Henderson, George

Patent Model for Newspaper and Envelope Addressing Machine

Henderson, George · ca 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cleomella serrulata (Pursh) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Cleomella serrulata (Pursh) Roalson & J.C. Hall

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of carved ornaments with the Maize God

Maya artist(s) · 400–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Border fragment, figures with staves

Border fragment, figures with staves

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of earflare frontals, by Maya artist(s)

Pair of earflare frontals

Maya artist(s) · 200–600 CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 199047 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:20 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.