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. 19 shown for “James Neagle” — 47 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 03:29 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.
Certificate of Membership for the Society of Copper Plate Printers, by James Neagle

Certificate of Membership for the Society of Copper Plate Printers

James Neagle · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
"The Columbiad" -- Cruelty Presiding Over the Prison Ship, by James Neagle, 1760? - 1822

"The Columbiad" -- Cruelty Presiding Over the Prison Ship

James Neagle, 1760? - 1822 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4), by James Neagle

Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)

James Neagle · June 4, 1794

Public domainThe Met
John Neagle, by Unidentified Artist

John Neagle

Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Certificate of Membership of the Society of Copper-Plate Printers, by Edward Francis Burney

Certificate of Membership of the Society of Copper-Plate Printers

Edward Francis Burney · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Voyage of Life--Manhood, by James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885

The Voyage of Life--Manhood

James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Major General Charles Lee, by Alexander Hay Ritchie

Major General Charles Lee

Alexander Hay Ritchie · 1860

Public domainThe Met
The Voyage of Life--Youth, by James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885

The Voyage of Life--Youth

James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Haviland, by John Neagle

John Haviland

John Neagle · 1828

Public domainThe Met
The Voyage of Life--Old Age, by James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885

The Voyage of Life--Old Age

James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare

The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare · 1805

Public domainThe Met
The Voyage of Life--Childhood, by James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885

The Voyage of Life--Childhood

James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod, by John Flaxman

The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod

John Flaxman · 1795–1817

Public domainThe Met
James Johnson

James Johnson

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Richford Roberts, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Robert Richford Roberts

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Laurens, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Henry Laurens

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Clay Neal, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Joseph Clay Neal

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Independence Hall, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Independence Hall

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118597 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-09 03:29 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.