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 “Henry Peach Robinson” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:01 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.
Fear, by Henry Peach Robinson

Fear

Henry Peach Robinson · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met
Pleuridium subulatum (Hedw.) Rabenh.

Pleuridium subulatum (Hedw.) Rabenh.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"She Never Told Her Love", by Henry Peach Robinson

"She Never Told Her Love"

Henry Peach Robinson · 1857

Public domainThe Met
The Wealth of Autumn, by Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888

The Wealth of Autumn

Andrew John Henry Way, born Washington, DC 1826-died Baltimore, MD 1888 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fading Away, from "Illustrated Times", by Henry Peach Robinson

Fading Away, from "Illustrated Times"

Henry Peach Robinson · October 30, 1858

Public domainThe Met
Methodist Camp Meeting by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1836, by Clay, Edward Williams

Methodist Camp Meeting by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1836

Clay, Edward Williams · 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scène d’Octobre: La jeune poitrinaire (An October Scene: The Young Consumptive), from "Le Journal Illustré" no. 34, by Henry Peach Robinson

Scène d’Octobre: La jeune poitrinaire (An October Scene: The Young Consumptive), from "Le Journal Illustré" no. 34

Henry Peach Robinson · October 2–9, 1864

Public domainThe Met
Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

Return of the Prodigal Son by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ann Buchan Robinson (1792–1853), by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Ann Buchan Robinson (1792–1853)

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1831

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Feeding Swine by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Winter" Needlework Picture, by Hannah Jane Robinson

"Winter" Needlework Picture

Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819

Public domainThe Met
The Camp Meeting, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Camp Meeting

Robinson, Henry R. · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Two Young Women at Window], by Andrei Osipovich Karelin

[Two Young Women at Window]

Andrei Osipovich Karelin · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Receiving His Portion by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson, by Robinson, Henry R.

The Prodigal Son Wastes His Patrimony by Henry R. Robinson

Robinson, Henry R. · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1713–22

Public domainThe Met
Streptanthus cordatus Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Streptanthus cordatus Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sanford R. Gifford, by Launt Thompson

Sanford R. Gifford

Launt Thompson · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon nudiflorus A. Gray

Penstemon nudiflorus A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · May 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peach Blossoms, by John William Hill

Peach Blossoms

John William Hill · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon nudiflorus A. Gray

Penstemon nudiflorus A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · May 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mace Made for Henry II of France, by Diego de Caias

Mace Made for Henry II of France

Diego de Caias · ca. 1540

Public domainThe Met
Actinea acaulis var. arizonica (Greene) S.F. Blake

Actinea acaulis var. arizonica (Greene) S.F. Blake

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1883

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. 175 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 129644 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 05:01 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.