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. 22 shown for “Heqanakht Account VII” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:54 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.
Heqanakht Account VII

Heqanakht Account VII

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Christian VII, by William Grainger, 1775 - 1875?

Christian VII

William Grainger, 1775 - 1875? · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter I

Heqanakht Letter I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Christina VII, by Pierre Lombart, 1620 - 1681?

Christina VII

Pierre Lombart, 1620 - 1681? · 1668

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Account VI

Heqanakht Account VI

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Frederick VII, by J. W. Tegner

Frederick VII

J. W. Tegner · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter V

Heqanakht Letter V

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Edward VII and Alexandra, by Unidentified Artist

Edward VII and Alexandra

Unidentified Artist · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments

Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Edward Albert, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Edward Albert

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanahkt Letter II

Heqanahkt Letter II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia excelsa L.

Lobelia excelsa L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1969 to 25 Jan 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht Letter (III) to Merisu

Heqanakht Letter (III) to Merisu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ferdinand VII and Louisa Maria, by Robert Cooper, active early 19th century

Ferdinand VII and Louisa Maria

Robert Cooper, active early 19th century · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV

Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Edward VII and Alexandra, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Edward VII and Alexandra

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sealing with Scarab Impressions from Heqanakht's Letters

Sealing with Scarab Impressions from Heqanakht's Letters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Public domainThe Met
Calceolaria thyrsiflora Graham

Calceolaria thyrsiflora Graham

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Nov 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heqanakht's account, written over an effaced letter regarding two female servants

Heqanakht's account, written over an effaced letter regarding two female servants

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Public domainThe Met
Pagodroma nivea

Pagodroma nivea

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias, by Goya

Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias

Goya · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

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. 110 matched · 24 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. 4096 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-08-27 00:54 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.