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 “Mary Parker” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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.
Sampler, by Mary Parker

Sampler

Mary Parker · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Aeshna californica

Aeshna californica

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair), by John Parker

Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair)

John Parker · 1766/67

Public domainThe Met
Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Artist not stated in the record · May 1927 to Jul 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), by Marie Denise Villers

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie Denise Villers · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria retzii C. Agardh

Oscillatoria retzii C. Agardh

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) R. Parker

Artist not stated in the record · May 1927 to Jul 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthony Butler, by Charles Willson Peale

Anthony Butler

Charles Willson Peale · 1782

Public domainThe Met
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots (frontispiece, from "The Abbot," volume I), by Annin & Smith

Mary, Queen of Scots (frontispiece, from "The Abbot," volume I)

Annin & Smith · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cheese stand, by John Parker

Cheese stand

John Parker · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1940

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
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Verrucaria calciseda DC.

Verrucaria calciseda DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 1941

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. 151 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 59748 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 08:20 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.