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. 12 shown for “Henry Chawner, British, 1764 – 1851” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:28 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death, by James Gillray

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death

James Gillray · March 5, 1806

Public domainThe Met
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill, by James Gillray

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill

James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Public domainThe Met
The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition, by James Gillray

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray · April 18, 1807

Public domainThe Met
The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor, by George Cruikshank

The Prince of Whales or the Fisherman at Anchor

George Cruikshank · May 1, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Political-Candour;– i.e.–Coalition-Resolutions of June 14th, 1805.–Pro bono Publico–, by James Gillray

Political-Candour;– i.e.–Coalition-Resolutions of June 14th, 1805.–Pro bono Publico–

James Gillray · June 21, 1805

Public domainThe Met
Dispersion of the Thimble Rig, by John Doyle

Dispersion of the Thimble Rig

John Doyle · July 14, 1834

Public domainThe Met
A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain; or John Bull swamped in a Flood of Taxes, by James Gillray

A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain; or John Bull swamped in a Flood of Taxes

James Gillray · May 9, 1806

Public domainThe Met
The State Waggoner and John Bull.–or–the Waggon too Much for the Donkeys!, by James Gillray

The State Waggoner and John Bull.–or–the Waggon too Much for the Donkeys!

James Gillray · March 14, 1804

Public domainThe Met
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
The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2), by Peter Simon

The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)

Peter Simon · first published 1797; reissued 1852

Public domainThe Met
The Pic-Nic Orchestra, by James Gillray

The Pic-Nic Orchestra

James Gillray · April 23, 1802

Public domainThe Met
The Grand Canal above the Rialto, by Francesco Guardi

The Grand Canal above the Rialto

Francesco Guardi · late 1760s

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 15:28 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.