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 “Jenette A. Reynolds” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 07:45 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.
Sampler, by Jenette A. Reynolds

Sampler

Jenette A. Reynolds · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)

Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)

Artist not stated in the record · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Dodonaea barklyana (S. T. Reynolds) M.G. Harr.

Dodonaea barklyana (S. T. Reynolds) M.G. Harr.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Alectryon pubescens (S. T. Reynolds) S. T. Reynolds

Alectryon pubescens (S. T. Reynolds) S. T. Reynolds

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Alectryon oleifolius (Desf.) S. T. Reynolds

Alectryon oleifolius (Desf.) S. T. Reynolds

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte), by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Townsendia florifer (Hook.) A. Gray

Townsendia florifer (Hook.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Psydrax ammophila S. T. Reynolds & R.J.F. Hend.

Psydrax ammophila S. T. Reynolds & R.J.F. Hend.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Joshua Reynolds, by John Keyse Sherwin

Sir Joshua Reynolds

John Keyse Sherwin · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Cajanus latisepalus (S. T. Reynolds & Pedley) Maesen

Cajanus latisepalus (S. T. Reynolds & Pedley) Maesen

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/7/49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Joshua Reynolds, by John Henry Robinson

Sir Joshua Reynolds

John Henry Robinson · 1830–40

Public domainThe Met
Marble architectural fragment

Marble architectural fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 421–409 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), by Thomas Peat

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

Thomas Peat · 1792

Public domainThe Met
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), by Archibald Robertson

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

Archibald Robertson · 1786–91

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of a Woman

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Public domainThe Met
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. 821 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1766483 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 07:45 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.