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. 24 shown for “Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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 Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Vertrouwt Book Plate, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

Vertrouwt Book Plate

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Poems by Robert Burns, Vol. III, Title Page, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

Poems by Robert Burns, Vol. III, Title Page

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City, by Asher Brown Durand

Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Elias Hicks Bookplate, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

Elias Hicks Bookplate

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City, by Asher Brown Durand

Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
The Art of Writing by John Jenkins, Frontispiece, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

The Art of Writing by John Jenkins, Frontispiece

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Secrétaire à abattant, by Duncan Phyfe

Secrétaire à abattant

Duncan Phyfe · 1835–47

Public domainThe Met
Ticonderoga, by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

Ticonderoga

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bedstead, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Bedstead

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · ca. 1805–8

Public domainThe Met
"Him Pensive on the lonely beach she found, with streaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd, and inly pining for his native shore", from The Odyssey of Homer, Book V. Pa. 111. Published by W. Durell., by Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831

"Him Pensive on the lonely beach she found, with streaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd, and inly pining for his native shore", from The Odyssey of Homer, Book V. Pa. 111. Published by W. Durell.

Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington..., by Tyler, Benjamin O.

Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington...

Tyler, Benjamin O. · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch, by Duncan Phyfe

Couch

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
Joseph the Prophet Addressing the Lamanites by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1844, by S. Brannan & Co.

Joseph the Prophet Addressing the Lamanites by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1844

S. Brannan & Co. · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Duncan Phyfe

Side Chair

Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Public domainThe Met
John Hart, by Metropolitan Printing Company

John Hart

Metropolitan Printing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Birch, Wambold & Backus San Francisco Minstrels, by Thomas, Henry Atwell

Birch, Wambold & Backus San Francisco Minstrels

Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Was She Right?, by Rothengatter

Was She Right?

Rothengatter · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Acheloüs, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Feast of Acheloüs

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Watch and Wait! Or Through Fire, by Metropolitan Printing Company

Watch and Wait! Or Through Fire

Metropolitan Printing Company · n.d.

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. 630 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 82 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 08:09 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.