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 “Peter Bettesworth” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 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.

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Cooper, by Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870?

Peter Cooper

Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell Self-Portrait, by Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell, 5 Mar 1862 - 15 Jan 1924

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell Self-Portrait

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell, 5 Mar 1862 - 15 Jan 1924 · c. 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finley Peter Dunne, by Sir Leslie Mathew Ward, 1851 - 1922

Finley Peter Dunne

Sir Leslie Mathew Ward, 1851 - 1922 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Finley Peter Dunne in Curves, by Arthur Henry Young, 14 Jan 1866 - 29 Dec 1943

Finley Peter Dunne in Curves

Arthur Henry Young, 14 Jan 1866 - 29 Dec 1943 · c. 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Cooper, by Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896

Peter Cooper

Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper

William Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · January 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Johnston, Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Peter Johnston, Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Peter Van Ness, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

William Peter Van Ness

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Force, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Peter Force

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1864

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. 29818 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 10:40 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.