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. 12 shown for “James Peale” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Thomas Lee Shippen, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Thomas Lee Shippen

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Depeyster Peale, by James Peale, 1749 - 24 May 1831

Elizabeth Depeyster Peale

James Peale, 1749 - 24 May 1831 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Knapp, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Elizabeth Knapp

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Shippen, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

William Shippen

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Portrait of a Lady

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Oliphant, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Elizabeth Oliphant

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susanne Correy, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Susanne Correy

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Josiah Hewes Anthony, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Josiah Hewes Anthony

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1790

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 121039 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 16:56 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.