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 T. Copeland” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:57 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.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whalers, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whalers

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Fimbristylis cymosa subsp. spathacea (Roth) T. Koyama

Fimbristylis cymosa subsp. spathacea (Roth) T. Koyama

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1904

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
Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore

Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Head of Joseph

Limestone Head of Joseph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Public domainThe Met
Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Music Lesson, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

The Music Lesson

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1938

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

Wine Cup

Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Calymmodon clavifer (Hook.) T. Moore

Calymmodon clavifer (Hook.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1932

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

Wine Cup

Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Pleopeltis crassinervata (Fée) T. Moore

Pleopeltis crassinervata (Fée) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Elaphoglossum angulatum (Blume) T. Moore

Elaphoglossum angulatum (Blume) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1905

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. 1669 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. 476784 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 01:57 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.