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 “Johan Joseph Zoffany” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:37 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 Reverend Philip Cocks (1735–1797), by Johan Joseph Zoffany

The Reverend Philip Cocks (1735–1797)

Johan Joseph Zoffany · late 1760s

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · 1602

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon, in the Mayor of Garratt, by Johann Gottfried Haid

Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon, in the Mayor of Garratt

Johann Gottfried Haid · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin West and Family, by George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802?

Benjamin West and Family

George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802? · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Simon François Ravenet, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Simon François Ravenet

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Arthrocardia carinata (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Arthrocardia carinata (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Royal Academy of Arts, by Richard Earlom

The Royal Academy of Arts

Richard Earlom · August 2, 1773

Public domainThe Met
Haliptilon gracile (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W. Johans.

Haliptilon gracile (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré", by Mason Jackson

Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré"

Mason Jackson · October 2, 1862

Public domainThe Met
Arthrocardia filicula (Lam.) H.W. Johans.

Arthrocardia filicula (Lam.) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman Hunter with his Dog, seen from the Back, by Johan Thomas Lundbye

Roman Hunter with his Dog, seen from the Back

Johan Thomas Lundbye · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore, by Johan Christian Dahl

Shipwreck on a Rocky Shore

Johan Christian Dahl · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peasant's Hut at the Edge of a Forest, by Johan Christian Dahl

Peasant's Hut at the Edge of a Forest

Johan Christian Dahl · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, by Caspar David Friedrich

Two Men Contemplating the Moon

Caspar David Friedrich · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Neopolyporolithon reclinatum (Foslie) W.H. Adey & H.W. Johans.

Neopolyporolithon reclinatum (Foslie) W.H. Adey & H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Political Chemist and German Retorts or Dissolving the Rhenish Confederacy, by Thomas Rowlandson

Political Chemist and German Retorts or Dissolving the Rhenish Confederacy

Thomas Rowlandson · December 12, 1813

Public domainThe Met
Neopolyporolithon reclinatum (Foslie) W.H. Adey & H.W. Johans.

Neopolyporolithon reclinatum (Foslie) W.H. Adey & H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

"Jonah and the Whale", Folio Probably from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Dudleya brittonii Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Bearded and Turbaned Man Carrying a Chest, by Pieter Lastman

Study of a Bearded and Turbaned Man Carrying a Chest

Pieter Lastman · ca. 1625–30

Public domainThe Met
Cheilosporum cultratum subsp. multifidumum (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Cheilosporum cultratum subsp. multifidumum (Kütz.) H.W. Johans.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1992

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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 86731 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-01 10:37 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.