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 “Lady's Hand and Flowers” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:23 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Plate 1, The Lady's Magazine, Second Series, Vol. 3

Plate 1, The Lady's Magazine, Second Series, Vol. 3

Artist not stated in the record · January 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Embroidery of a Lady's Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for the Embroidery of a Lady's Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature copy of First Lady Truman's evening gown by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Miniature copy of First Lady Truman's evening gown by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1957-1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Gentleman's Costume: 1775, Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion), Vingt-deuxième Année (22nd Year), No. 64, by Pierre-Antoine Leboux de La Mésangère, French, 1761–1831

Design for Gentleman's Costume: 1775, Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion), Vingt-deuxième Année (22nd Year), No. 64

Pierre-Antoine Leboux de La Mésangère, French, 1761–1831 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Lady

Standing Lady

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Lady Greeting a Gentleman

A Lady Greeting a Gentleman

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrangement of Grass, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Arrangement of Grass, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844 and June 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day), by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Standing Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady Macbeth, by Elisabet Ney, born Munster, Germany 1833-died Austin, TX 1907

Lady Macbeth

Elisabet Ney, born Munster, Germany 1833-died Austin, TX 1907 · 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1472236 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 15:23 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.