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 “Joseph Cox” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 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.
Settee, by Joseph Cox

Settee

Joseph Cox · 1757–60

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Flatbed Cylinder Web Press, by Cox, Joseph L.

Patent Model of a Flatbed Cylinder Web Press

Cox, Joseph L. · ca 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox, by William Hogarth

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox

William Hogarth · 1729

Public domainThe Met
Last Will and Testament of Stephen G. Wells

Last Will and Testament of Stephen G. Wells

Artist not stated in the record · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, by Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Phebalium ozothamnoides F. Muell.

Phebalium ozothamnoides F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Label, by Joseph Cox

Label

Joseph Cox · 1757–60

Public domainThe Met
Lupinus sellulus var. lobbii (A. Gray ex S. Watson) B.J. Cox

Lupinus sellulus var. lobbii (A. Gray ex S. Watson) B.J. Cox

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Joseph B. Barry and Son

Pier table

Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, by United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901

United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cox's Landing, James River, by Andrew Joseph Russell

Cox's Landing, James River

Andrew Joseph Russell · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Carex tonsa (Fernald) E.P. Bicknell

Carex tonsa (Fernald) E.P. Bicknell

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Carex conoidea Willd.

Carex conoidea Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Carex glaucodea Tuck. ex Olney

Carex glaucodea Tuck. ex Olney

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin, by Bartolomeo Vivarini

The Death of the Virgin

Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484

Public domainThe Met
Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.

Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Public domainThe Met
Kenyon Cox, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907

Kenyon Cox

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907 · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus

Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Kenyon Cox, by William A. Coffin, born Allegheny, PA 1855-died New York City 1925

Kenyon Cox

William A. Coffin, born Allegheny, PA 1855-died New York City 1925

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. 48 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. 87619 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 2026-09-01 22:31 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.