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 “Hoe, Richard March” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:19 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.
Division Viol, by Richard Meares

Division Viol

Richard Meares · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Rotary Press Printing Both Sides of a Sheet, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for a Rotary Press Printing Both Sides of a Sheet

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, by John Hoppner

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer

John Hoppner

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Press, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat, by Richard Holden

Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Rotary Perfecting Press, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model of a Rotary Perfecting Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smallsword Hilt with Storage Case, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell

Smallsword Hilt with Storage Case

Rundell, Bridge and Rundell · ca. 1785–1800

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Sheet-Delivery Fly Frames, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for Sheet-Delivery Fly Frames

Hoe, Richard March · Patent Date 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery, by Richard Wilson

Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery

Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colonel Richard March Hoe, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, by Allen & Ginter

Colonel Richard March Hoe, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

Allen & Ginter · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Rotary Perfecting Presses, by Tucker, Stephen D.

Patent Model for Rotary Perfecting Presses

Tucker, Stephen D. · ca 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View near Rouen, by Richard Parkes Bonington

View near Rouen

Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roadside Halt, by Richard Parkes Bonington

Roadside Halt

Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press, by Tucker, Stephen D.

Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press

Tucker, Stephen D. · 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for Flatbed Cylinder Printing Presses, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for Flatbed Cylinder Printing Presses

Hoe, Richard March · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843), by John Hoppner

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)

John Hoppner

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Printing Press, by Hoe, Richard March

Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Printing Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with a Sword, by Edouard Manet

Boy with a Sword

Edouard Manet · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press, by Tucker, Stephen D.

Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press

Tucker, Stephen D. · ca 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Preaching of John the Baptist, by Bartholomeus Breenbergh

The Preaching of John the Baptist

Bartholomeus Breenbergh · 1634

Public domainThe Met
Invention for Improvement in Rotary Printing Presses

Invention for Improvement in Rotary Printing Presses

Artist not stated in the record · ca 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. 1769 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 75960 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 19:19 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.