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 “John Robert Cozens” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 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.
View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome, by John Robert Cozens

View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome

John Robert Cozens · 1782–83

Public domainThe Met
Euphrasia stricta Kunth

Euphrasia stricta Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Vesuvius, by John Robert Cozens

View of Vesuvius

John Robert Cozens · August 18 [1782]

Public domainThe Met
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre

Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri, by John Robert Cozens

On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri

John Robert Cozens · September 1782 or later

Public domainThe Met
Humulus americanus Nutt.

Humulus americanus Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cup, by John Hull

Wine cup

John Hull · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Eleocharis halophila (Fernald & Brackett) Fernald & Brackett

Eleocharis halophila (Fernald & Brackett) Fernald & Brackett

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Mops condylurus

Mops condylurus

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869), by Samuel Jackson

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)

Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Public domainThe Met
Lathyrus sphaericus Retz.

Lathyrus sphaericus Retz.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storm Over A Lake, by Joseph Barber

Storm Over A Lake

Joseph Barber · 1800–1811

Public domainThe Met
Robert Fuller and John Binns, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Robert Fuller and John Binns

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

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
Tivoli, Villa of Maecenas and part of the Cascatelle, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Tivoli, Villa of Maecenas and part of the Cascatelle

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1794–97

Public domainThe Met
John Burgoyne, by Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838

John Burgoyne

Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by John Monday

Plate

John Monday · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Robert E. Lee, by John A. O'Neill, 1857 - 1890?

Robert E. Lee

John A. O'Neill, 1857 - 1890? · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shilling, by John Hull

Shilling

John Hull · 1652

Public domainThe Met
John Butler Yeats, by Robert Henri, American, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865–1929

John Butler Yeats

Robert Henri, American, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865–1929 · (1909)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shilling, by John Hull

Shilling

John Hull · ca. 1667–ca. 1682

Public domainThe Met
John Byron, by Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838

John Byron

Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

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. 2995 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 408617 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-27 05:13 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.