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 “Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847” — 46 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:15 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 Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Stephen Decatur, by Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847

Stephen Decatur

Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · c. 1830-40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, by Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus

Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Oliver Hazard Perry, by Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847

Oliver Hazard Perry

Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · c. 1830-40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Alexander I, by Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847

Alexander I

Henry Meyer, c. 1782 - 28 May 1847 · 1814

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1447–65

Public domainThe Met
Liomera cinctimanus

Liomera cinctimanus

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Oct 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808), by John Hoppner

Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)

John Hoppner · 1793

Public domainThe Met
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Henry W. Hilliard, by John Plumbe, Jr., 13 Jul 1809 - 28 May 1857

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Henry W. Hilliard

John Plumbe, Jr., 13 Jul 1809 - 28 May 1857 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sad Parting Between Two Old Friends, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Sad Parting Between Two Old Friends

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - John C. Calhoun, by John Plumbe, Jr., 13 Jul 1809 - 28 May 1857

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - John C. Calhoun

John Plumbe, Jr., 13 Jul 1809 - 28 May 1857 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Where's My Thunder, by David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865

Where's My Thunder

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schedule of the Estate of Mrs. Sarah B. Preston.

Schedule of the Estate of Mrs. Sarah B. Preston.

Artist not stated in the record · August 28, 1847

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2097128 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 2026-09-02 05:15 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.