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. 17 shown for “Jerome B. Thompson” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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 Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain, by Jerome B. Thompson

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain

Jerome B. Thompson · 1858

Public domainThe Met
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature, by Unidentified

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature

Unidentified · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Song of the Waters, by Jerome B. Thompson

Song of the Waters

Jerome B. Thompson · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis

Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis

Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Flowers, by Jerome B. Thompson

Summer Flowers

Jerome B. Thompson · 1859

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis

Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis

Artist not stated in the record · November 1, 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Jerome as Scholar, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610

Public domainThe Met
B. T. Graf v. Rumford, by Franz Xavier Muller, 1756 - 1837

B. T. Graf v. Rumford

Franz Xavier Muller, 1756 - 1837 · c. 1792

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Phlegmariurus hypogaeus (B. Øllg.) B. Øllg.

Phlegmariurus hypogaeus (B. Øllg.) B. Øllg.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Spring, by Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Spring

Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome, by Francesco Francia

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome

Francesco Francia · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome, by Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome

Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study, by Pseudo-Ortkens

Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study

Pseudo-Ortkens · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

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

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. 631 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. 503942 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 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.