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 “John Michael Rysbrack” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:34 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.
Mantelpiece from Chesterfield House, London, by John Michael Rysbrack

Mantelpiece from Chesterfield House, London

John Michael Rysbrack · 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Lathyrus eucosmus Butters & H. St. John

Lathyrus eucosmus Butters & H. St. John

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), by John Michael Rysbrack

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722)

John Michael Rysbrack · early to mid-1730s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875), by Miley, Michael 1841-1918

Portrait of John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875)

Miley, Michael 1841-1918 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Barnard, by John Michael Rysbrack

John Barnard

John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Public domainThe Met
Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return of Joseph, by John Michael Rysbrack

The Return of Joseph

John Michael Rysbrack · 1720–70

Public domainThe Met
Echinochloa picta (K.D. Koenig) Michael

Echinochloa picta (K.D. Koenig) Michael

Artist not stated in the record · May 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Michael, by Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio

Saint Michael

Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio · mid-1430s

Public domainThe Met
Echinochloa picta (K.D. Koenig) Michael

Echinochloa picta (K.D. Koenig) Michael

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Plaque with Saint John the Evangelist

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Clare (counterproof), by Guido Reni

The Holy Family with Saint Clare (counterproof)

Guido Reni · 1590–1600

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with Saint Clare, by Guido Reni

The Holy Family with Saint Clare

Guido Reni · 1590–1600

Public domainThe Met
Fortitude and Justice, by Battista Franco

Fortitude and Justice

Battista Franco · ca. 1530–61

Public domainThe Met
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, by Louis François Roubiliac

William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

Louis François Roubiliac · ca. 1750

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. 1767 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. 289572 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 2026-08-28 08:34 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.