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 “Painter of Philadelphia 2449” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.

The Distinguished Society Star. Henrietta Chanfrau., by Ledger Job Print

The Distinguished Society Star. Henrietta Chanfrau.

Ledger Job Print · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Sully, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Thomas Sully

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titian and Rembrandt Peale, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Titian and Rembrandt Peale

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Buchanan Read, by Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888

Thomas Buchanan Read

Marcus Aurelius Root, 1808 - 1888 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilbert Stuart, by David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841

Gilbert Stuart

David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Rider, Alexander

[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Rider, Alexander · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Kennedy & Lucas

Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider

Kennedy & Lucas · ca 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Lady, by Laura Wheeler Waring, born Hartford, CT 1887-died Philadelphia, PA 1948

Portrait of a Lady

Laura Wheeler Waring, born Hartford, CT 1887-died Philadelphia, PA 1948 · 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
photograph, Minnie Fiske as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor

photograph, Minnie Fiske as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Artist not stated in the record · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Oliver Tarbell Eddy, born Greenbush, VT 1799-died Philadelphia, PA 1868

Self-Portrait

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, born Greenbush, VT 1799-died Philadelphia, PA 1868 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Walsh McBlair

Mary Walsh McBlair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1801-1872

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. 2863948 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 08:33 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.