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 “Isaac Ware” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:40 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.
The West Front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation, by Isaac Ware

The West Front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Lea, by Bernard Albrecht Uhle, 1847 - 1930

Isaac Lea

Bernard Albrecht Uhle, 1847 - 1930 · c. 1884-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Ground Floor (Basement) Plan, by Isaac Ware

Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Ground Floor (Basement) Plan

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Myer Isaacs, by Unidentified Artist

Samuel Myer Isaacs

Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling to the Gallery, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Ceiling to the Gallery, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Henry, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Isaac Henry

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of the East Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Section of the East Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Ingalls Stevens, by Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914

Isaac Ingalls Stevens

Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transverse Section, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Transverse Section, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac and Joseph Parish, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Isaac and Joseph Parish

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section of the West Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Section of the West Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Toucey, by McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860

Isaac Toucey

McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling to the Cabinet, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Ceiling to the Cabinet, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
U.S. Frigate Constitution with Commander Isaac Hull, by Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832

U.S. Frigate Constitution with Commander Isaac Hull

Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac A. Coles, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Isaac A. Coles

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Hull, by William Strickland, 1788 - 1854

Isaac Hull

William Strickland, 1788 - 1854 · c. 1812-15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation, by Isaac Ware

Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Hull

Isaac Hull

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hall Chimney-Piece, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Hall Chimney-Piece, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Bell, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Isaac Bell

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimney to the Parlour, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by Isaac Ware

Chimney to the Parlour, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware · 1735

Public domainThe Met
Isaac Hull, by George Graham, active 1786 - 1813

Isaac Hull

George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · 1813

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. 92 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7242 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 2026-09-06 18:40 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.