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 Holland” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:45 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Oblong Plaster Ceiling for the First Hall, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, by Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627

Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester

Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · 1616-1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry II, King of England, by Compton Holland, before 1600 - Jan 1622

Henry II, King of England

Compton Holland, before 1600 - Jan 1622 · 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry VI, King of England and France, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Henry VI, King of England and France

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry V (Henry of Monmouth), King of England, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Henry V (Henry of Monmouth), King of England

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry VII, King of England, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Henry VII, King of England

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moonlight in Holland, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Moonlight in Holland

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Portrait of a Lady

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Holland, by William Henry Holmes, born Cadiz, OH 1846-died Royal Oak, MI 1933

In Holland

William Henry Holmes, born Cadiz, OH 1846-died Royal Oak, MI 1933 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Argythamnia candicans Sw. var. candicans

Argythamnia candicans Sw. var. candicans

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1965

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119203 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 14:45 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.