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. 15 shown for “Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878” — 43 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:05 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.
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
An Elizabethan Room at Lyme Hall, Cheshire, by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

An Elizabethan Room at Lyme Hall, Cheshire

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Austria No. 1: Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854., by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

Austria No. 1: Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854.

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
North Germany. Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854., by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

North Germany. Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854.

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1851–54

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford, by Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family, by Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family

Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family, by Unknown

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family

Unknown · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andropogon tenuispatheus (Nash) Nash

Andropogon tenuispatheus (Nash) Nash

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2022

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. scoparium

Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. scoparium

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash

Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains, by Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831

Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains

Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kings Bench Prison, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Kings Bench Prison, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1347864 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-06 04:05 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.