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 “Mourning Woman” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:24 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.

Study of a Mourning Woman

Study of a Mourning Woman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780

Pitcher

John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Painting: The Entombment of Christ

Design for a Painting: The Entombment of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman Standing Before a Piano, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Woman Standing Before a Piano

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
TA-MA-KAKE-TOKE or the Woman that Spoke First; A Chippeway Woman (mourning), from The Aboriginal Portfolio, by James Otto Lewis, born Philadelphia, PA 1799-died New York City 1858

TA-MA-KAKE-TOKE or the Woman that Spoke First; A Chippeway Woman (mourning), from The Aboriginal Portfolio

James Otto Lewis, born Philadelphia, PA 1799-died New York City 1858 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1795-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arts Mourning at the Tomb of Raphael, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Arts Mourning at the Tomb of Raphael

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning picture

Mourning picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning picture

Mourning picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mourning sampler

Mourning sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1803

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. 37541 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 03:24 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.