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. 23 shown for “Hewitt House” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 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.
Mantel

Mantel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Hewitt House

Hewitt House

Artist not stated in the record · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Details for Private House

Plan and Details for Private House

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel

Mantel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Plan of the Ground Floor and the Pit for an Opera House, by Robert Bénard, French, 1734–1772

Plan of the Ground Floor and the Pit for an Opera House

Robert Bénard, French, 1734–1772 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Exterior Elevation of a House, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Exterior Elevation of a House

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea gown, by House of Worth

Tea gown

House of Worth · 1894

Public domainThe Met
Facade of a town house, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Facade of a town house

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Pan, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Striding Pan

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · 1530–1539

Public domainThe Met
A Country House, by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877

A Country House

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1825–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Tulipes Hollandaises" (textile), by House of Worth

"Tulipes Hollandaises" (textile)

House of Worth · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a house, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a house

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening dress, by House of Worth

Evening dress

House of Worth · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Garden House, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a Garden House

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dinner dress, by House of Worth

Dinner dress

House of Worth · 1880–90

Public domainThe Met
Two Peasant Houses, by Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876

Two Peasant Houses

Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1811–1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening dress, by House of Worth

Evening dress

House of Worth · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Two Sketches of Houses, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Two Sketches of Houses

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening coat, by House of Worth

Evening coat

House of Worth · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Houses, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Landscape with Houses

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Walking suit, by House of Worth

Walking suit

House of Worth · ca. 1889

Public domainThe Met
Large House, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Large House

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1877–80

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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 86274 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 07:03 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.