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. 18 shown for “Joseph Foster” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:50 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.
Wine Cup, by Joseph Foster

Wine Cup

Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Letter to General Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates

Letter to General Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates

Artist not stated in the record · December 6, 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine Cup, by Joseph Foster

Wine Cup

Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Sisyrinchium ivanii R.C. Foster

Sisyrinchium ivanii R.C. Foster

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Joseph (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child (from an group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Virgin and Child (from an group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Cuphea wrightii var. compacta R.C. Foster

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Time, Apollo and the Seasons, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

Time, Apollo and the Seasons

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · 1662

Public domainThe Met
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery, by James Gillray

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery

James Gillray · March 13, 1807

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Sèvres Manufactory

Plate

Sèvres Manufactory · 1807–8

Public domainThe Met
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 47 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 93344 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:50 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.