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. 22 shown for “Joshua Johnson” — 56 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 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.
Emma Van Name, by Joshua Johnson

Emma Van Name

Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Joshua Johnson, by Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862

Mrs. Joshua Johnson

Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edward and Sarah Rutter, by Joshua Johnson

Edward and Sarah Rutter

Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Joshua Johnson, by Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862

Joshua Johnson

Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joshua, by Gaetano Gandolfi

Joshua

Gaetano Gandolfi · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy, by Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain), by Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John on Patmos, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint John on Patmos

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Adelia Ellender, by Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Portrait of Adelia Ellender

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1803-1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of John Westwood, by Joshua Johnson, American, ca. 1763 - after 1832

Portrait of John Westwood

Joshua Johnson, American, ca. 1763 - after 1832 · ca. 1807-1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Jürgen Ovens

Portrait of a Woman

Jürgen Ovens · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Sir William Boothby, by Unidentified (British)

Sir William Boothby

Unidentified (British) · 18th century

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

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Lady in White, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792

Portrait of a Lady in White

Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792 · ca. 1762-1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Lloyd, by Unidentified (British)

Mrs. Lloyd

Unidentified (British) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Man, by Unidentified (British)

Portrait of a Man

Unidentified (British) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lord Lifford, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792

Lord Lifford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joshua Chamberlain, by Unidentified Artist

Joshua Chamberlain

Unidentified Artist · c. 1866

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28933 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 22:13 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.