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. 18 shown for “Nicholas Hawk” — 48 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:59 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.
American Longrifle, by Nicholas Hawk

American Longrifle

Nicholas Hawk · ca. 1820–30

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Biddle, by James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869

Nicholas Biddle

James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Biddle, by Henry Dawe, 1790 - 1848

Nicholas Biddle

Henry Dawe, 1790 - 1848 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers

Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Ogden Nicholas Rood

Ogden Nicholas Rood

Artist not stated in the record · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Biddle, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Nicholas Biddle

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Public domainThe Met
Philip Norborne Nicholas, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Philip Norborne Nicholas

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barbara Claes (died 1663, called “Malle Babbe”), by Frans Hals

Barbara Claes (died 1663, called “Malle Babbe”)

Frans Hals

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Gouin Dufief, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Gouin Dufief

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Van Dyke, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Van Dyke

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Brice, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Brice

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Carter Nicholas, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Robert Carter Nicholas

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952

Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Edward Sheriff Curtis, 19 Feb 1868 - 19 Oct 1952 · 1906

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11189 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:59 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.