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 “Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:13 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.
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Artist not stated in the record · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Artist not stated in the record · 1842-1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Letter to William Turner from Eyo Honesty II

Artist not stated in the record · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Letter to a British captain from Eyo Honesty II

Letter to a British captain from Eyo Honesty II

Artist not stated in the record · 1842-1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Autograph note written to William Turner by Eyamba V, by Tom Eyo, Nigerian, 1800 - 1900

Autograph note written to William Turner by Eyamba V

Tom Eyo, Nigerian, 1800 - 1900 · 1842-1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Letter to William Turner from Eyamba V

Letter to William Turner from Eyamba V

Artist not stated in the record · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
V-Mail facsimile

V-Mail facsimile

Artist not stated in the record · December 17, 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ships in a Breeze, part II, plate 10 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ships in a Breeze, part II, plate 10 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · February 20, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Special passport for William Callahan

Special passport for William Callahan

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Straw Yard, part II, plate 7 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Straw Yard, part II, plate 7 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · February 20, 1808

Public domainThe Met
13c Hawaiian Missionary strip of three on cover

13c Hawaiian Missionary strip of three on cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mt. St. Gothard, part II, plate 9 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Mt. St. Gothard, part II, plate 9 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · February 20, 1808

Public domainThe Met
3c Washington type II on Confederate cover

3c Washington type II on Confederate cover

Artist not stated in the record · May 13, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Castle above the Meadows, part II, plate 8 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Castle above the Meadows, part II, plate 8 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Letter containing news of Nat Turner's rebellion

Letter containing news of Nat Turner's rebellion

Artist not stated in the record · January 6, 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Castle above the Meadows, part II, plate 8 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Castle above the Meadows, part II, plate 8 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Absentee ballot sheet

Absentee ballot sheet

Artist not stated in the record · 1944

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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1344975 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 00:13 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.