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 “Luke Sullivan” — 50 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 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.
Paul Before Felix, by Luke Sullivan

Paul Before Felix

Luke Sullivan · February 5, 1752

Public domainThe Met
Henry Cruger

Henry Cruger

Artist not stated in the record · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paul Before Felix, by Luke Sullivan

Paul Before Felix

Luke Sullivan · February 5, 1752

Public domainThe Met
Milledge L. Bonham, by Unidentified Artist

Milledge L. Bonham

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satire on False Perspective: Frontispiece to "Kirby's Perspective", by Luke Sullivan

Satire on False Perspective: Frontispiece to "Kirby's Perspective"

Luke Sullivan · February 1754

Public domainThe Met
Argomuellera mjikendae Q. Luke

Argomuellera mjikendae Q. Luke

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The March to Finchley (A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745), by Luke Sullivan

The March to Finchley (A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745)

Luke Sullivan · December 31, 1750

Public domainThe Met
Rhus natalensis Bernh.

Rhus natalensis Bernh.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The March to Finchley--A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745, by Luke Sullivan

The March to Finchley--A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745

Luke Sullivan · June 12, 1761

Public domainThe Met
Rhus vulgaris Meikle

Rhus vulgaris Meikle

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter, by William Hogarth

Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter

William Hogarth · February 5, 1752

Public domainThe Met
Hydnora sinandevu Beentje & Q. Luke

Hydnora sinandevu Beentje & Q. Luke

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter (Exodus 2:10), by William Hogarth

Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter (Exodus 2:10)

William Hogarth · February 5, 1752

Public domainThe Met
Solanecio kangae Q. Luke & Beentje

Solanecio kangae Q. Luke & Beentje

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sullivan's Paul Before Felix, by Dent

Sullivan's Paul Before Felix

Dent · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

St. Luke (S. Lvcas)

Artist not stated in the record · 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug, by Worcester factory

Jug

Worcester factory · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Lomariopsis sorbifolia (L.) Fée

Lomariopsis sorbifolia (L.) Fée

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Serpocaulon triseriale (Sw.) A.R. Sm.

Serpocaulon triseriale (Sw.) A.R. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lonchitis hirsuta L.

Lonchitis hirsuta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 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. 6442 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-01 22:11 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.