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 “Horse and cavalry rider” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:15 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.
Horse and cavalry rider

Horse and cavalry rider

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Blücher Unhorsed at Ligny, by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, American, 1849–1925

Blücher Unhorsed at Ligny

Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, American, 1849–1925 · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Artillery Horses with Riders, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Artillery Horses with Riders

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Staff finial, by Bamana artist

Staff finial

Bamana artist · Early to mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Man and Horse

Armor for Man and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · man's armor, ca. 1570 and later; horse armor, ca. 1580–90 and later

Public domainThe Met
Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Patch with horse and rider emblem on a maroon field

Artist not stated in the record · 1956 - 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and rider

Horse and rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider master die, by Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956

Horse and Rider master die

Elie Timothee Loizeaux, 1873 - 1956 · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Man and Horse

Armor for Man and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · comprehensively ca. 1450–1550

Public domainThe Met
Post Office Department patch

Post Office Department patch

Artist not stated in the record · 1965-1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armored Cavalryman

Armored Cavalryman

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider, by Muybridge, Eadweard

Horse and Rider

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1893-1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Captain of Cavalry

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emaciated Horse and Rider

Emaciated Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike, by Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA

The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike

Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA · May 17, 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and female rider

Horse and female rider

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–first half of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse and female rider

Horse and female rider

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Our Cavalry, a Halt on Their Way to the Front. French Cavalry Coming Out., by Townsend, Harry

Our Cavalry, a Halt on Their Way to the Front. French Cavalry Coming Out.

Townsend, Harry · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque: side 1, Sakhmet and Nefertum on either side of the name Menkheperre (Thutmose III); side 2, rider and trampled captive

Plaque: side 1, Sakhmet and Nefertum on either side of the name Menkheperre (Thutmose III); side 2, rider and trampled captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Horse and Rider, by Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922

Horse and Rider

Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922 · n.d.

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. 588 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1466982 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 01:15 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.