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. 22 shown for “John Neagle” — 50 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 01:01 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.
John Neagle, by Daniel Dickinson

John Neagle

Daniel Dickinson · 1830

Public domainThe Met
John Neagle, by Unidentified Artist

John Neagle

Unidentified Artist · c. 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Haviland, by John Neagle

John Haviland

John Neagle · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Gilbert Stuart, by David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841

Gilbert Stuart

David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Walsh, by John Neagle

John Walsh

John Neagle · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Robert Richford Roberts, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Robert Richford Roberts

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverend Samuel Brown Wiley, by John Neagle

Reverend Samuel Brown Wiley

John Neagle · 1847

Public domainThe Met
Henry Laurens, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Henry Laurens

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Sully, by John Neagle

Thomas Sully

John Neagle · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Clay Neal, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Joseph Clay Neal

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Hilson as Tyke, by Asher Brown Durand

Thomas Hilson as Tyke

Asher Brown Durand · 1826

Public domainThe Met
Independence Hall, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Independence Hall

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4), by James Neagle

Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)

James Neagle · June 4, 1794

Public domainThe Met
Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Junius Brutus Booth as Sir Edward Mortimer

Artist not stated in the record · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod, by John Flaxman

The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, and The Theogony, Works and Days of Hesiod

John Flaxman · 1795–1817

Public domainThe Met
Henry Clay, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Henry Clay

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare

The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Henry Clay, by John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897

Henry Clay

John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Bracelets, by John Carlin

Pair of Bracelets

John Carlin · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Thomas Jefferson

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry Clay and Richard Mentor Johnson, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Henry Clay and Richard Mentor Johnson

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1842-43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Jefferson, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Thomas Jefferson

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260417 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-09 01:01 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.