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. 17 shown for “Nicholas Richard Brewer, 1857 - 1949” — 45 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:52 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.
Bandits on a Rocky Coast, by Salvator Rosa

Bandits on a Rocky Coast

Salvator Rosa · 1655–60

Public domainThe Met
Maud Powell, by Nicholas Richard Brewer, 1857 - 1949

Maud Powell

Nicholas Richard Brewer, 1857 - 1949 · 1918 or 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox, by Anthony van Dyck

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Public domainThe Met
Dr. William Henry Holmes, by Nicholas R. Brewer, born High Forest, MN 1857-died St. Paul, MN 1949

Dr. William Henry Holmes

Nicholas R. Brewer, born High Forest, MN 1857-died St. Paul, MN 1949 · ca. 1923-1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864, by Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876

Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864

Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas I, by Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872

Nicholas I

Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Robert Carter Nicholas, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Robert Carter Nicholas

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Microtus breweri

Microtus breweri

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tilia americana L.

Tilia americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Malva rotundifolia L.

Malva rotundifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Symphyotrichum sp.

Symphyotrichum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedw.) Lindb.

Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedw.) Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dicranum flagellare Hedw.

Dicranum flagellare Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) Ehrh. ex P. Beauv.

Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) Ehrh. ex P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1857

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 153463 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 05:52 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.