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. 12 shown for “Joseph Wright and Thomas Hind” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:59 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of a Woman, by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Portrait of a Woman

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France, by Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France

Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1779–80

Public domainThe Met
Helmet crest, by Grassfields artist

Helmet crest

Grassfields artist · 1830–55

Public domainThe Met
Trees, bushes and vegetation (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 40 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Trees, bushes and vegetation (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 40 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Smaller Italian sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Smaller Italian sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 12 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 12 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 10 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Roman ruins (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 10 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a towered building and domed church, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 32 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Landscape with a towered building and domed church, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 32 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Church with a tower and tiled roof, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 36 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Church with a tower and tiled roof, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 36 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with cedars and buildings, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 24 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Landscape with cedars and buildings, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 24 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Curved wall, round tower and distant villa, near St. Peter's at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 8 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Curved wall, round tower and distant villa, near St. Peter's at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 8 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Upon the Tiber, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 33 recto), by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Upon the Tiber, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 33 recto)

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1774–75

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. 165 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:59 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.