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. 19 shown for “Old Ford” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 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.
Piece, by Old Ford

Piece

Old Ford · 1760–80

Public domainThe Met
Old Ford

Old Ford

Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Printed cotton, by Robert Jones

Printed cotton

Robert Jones · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cows Crossing a Ford, by Jules Dupré

Cows Crossing a Ford

Jules Dupré · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Lemna trisulca L.

Lemna trisulca L.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu

Old Plum

Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Festuca ovina L.

Festuca ovina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ford, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Ford

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1636

Public domainThe Met
Ditrichum pusillum (Hedw.) Hampe

Ditrichum pusillum (Hedw.) Hampe

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife), by Ford Madox Brown

The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife)

Ford Madox Brown · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady-in-Waiting at Edo Castle, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川國芳

Lady-in-Waiting at Edo Castle

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川國芳 · ca. 1854–60 (Ansei era)

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.

Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Hunting and fishing scenes, by Robert Jones

Hunting and fishing scenes

Robert Jones · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead, by George Price Boyce

Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead

George Price Boyce · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Nine Studies of the Moses in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Nine Studies for the Eve in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso), by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

Nine Studies of the Moses in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Nine Studies for the Eve in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1503–40

Public domainThe Met
Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers, by Bromley Hall Printworks

Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers

Bromley Hall Printworks · 1765–75

Public domainThe Met
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 47721 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:34 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.