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 Whitney” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 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.
Candlestick, by Henry Whitney

Candlestick

Henry Whitney · 1870–75

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation vase, by New England Glass Company

Presentation vase

New England Glass Company · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Female Nude, by Henri Lehmann

Study of a Female Nude

Henri Lehmann · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Banks of the Rance, Brittany, by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes

The Banks of the Rance, Brittany

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes · possibly 1785

Public domainThe Met
Henry W. Bellows

Henry W. Bellows

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Woman in the Garden of Monsieur Forest

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1889–91

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco, by Jean-François Montessuy

Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco

Jean-François Montessuy · 1843

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (client's plan), by Alexander Jackson Davis

House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (client's plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis · 1835

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (revised plan), by Alexander Jackson Davis

House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (revised plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (plan), by Alexander Jackson Davis

House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (front and side elevations), by Alexander Jackson Davis

House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (front and side elevations)

Alexander Jackson Davis · 1835

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

U.S. Sanitary Commission [Henry W. Bellows et al.]

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli, by Simon Denis

Mountainous Landscape at Tivoli

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–97

Public domainThe Met
Instructions for preparing 25c, 50c, $1 and other stamps

Instructions for preparing 25c, 50c, $1 and other stamps

Artist not stated in the record · June 30, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloud Study (Early Evening), by Simon Denis

Cloud Study (Early Evening)

Simon Denis · ca. 1786–1806

Public domainThe Met
Instructions for preparing 25c, 50c, $1 and other stamps

Instructions for preparing 25c, 50c, $1 and other stamps

Artist not stated in the record · June 30, 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. 244 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. 124211 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 2026-09-02 09:19 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.