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 Rogers & Son” — 63 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:58 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.
Teapot, by John Rogers & Son

Teapot

John Rogers & Son · ca. 1823–ca. 1842

Public domainThe Met
The Wrestlers, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Wrestlers

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by John Rogers & Son

Plate

John Rogers & Son · ca. 1815–ca. 1842

Public domainThe Met
Coming to the Parson, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

Coming to the Parson

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Massachussetts State House, Boston], by John Rogers & Son

[Massachussetts State House, Boston]

John Rogers & Son · ca. 1815–ca. 1842

Public domainThe Met
The Favored Scholar, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Favored Scholar

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wounded to the Rear / One More Shot, by John Rogers

Wounded to the Rear / One More Shot

John Rogers · 1864; cast 1865

Public domainThe Met
Checkers up at the Farm, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

Checkers up at the Farm

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
"Is It So Nominated in the Bond?", by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

"Is It So Nominated in the Bond?"

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Wounded to the Rear, One More Shot, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

Wounded to the Rear, One More Shot

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Block Statue of the God's Father Pameniuwedja, son of Nesmin and Nestefnut

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1865, patented 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
"Ha! I Like Not That", by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

"Ha! I Like Not That"

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk and Bookcase, by John Davey

Desk and Bookcase

John Davey · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Warren Rogers, by John Paradise

Mrs. Warren Rogers

John Paradise · ca. 1821

Public domainThe Met
The Council of War, by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

The Council of War

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled ca. 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francis Brinley, by John Smibert

Francis Brinley

John Smibert · 1729

Public domainThe Met
John Vaughan (or Uriah), by Christopher Greiner, active 1837; died 1864

John Vaughan (or Uriah)

Christopher Greiner, active 1837; died 1864 · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall clock, by John Townsend

Tall clock

John Townsend · 1789

Public domainThe Met
1790 - 1810 Copp Family's "Nine-patch" Pieced Quilt, by Copp Family

1790 - 1810 Copp Family's "Nine-patch" Pieced Quilt

Copp Family · 1790-1810

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. 385 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. 39 matched · 39 examined · 25 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 2026-08-26 17:58 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.