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. 23 shown for “Peter Perez Burdett” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:16 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.
Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light, by Peter Perez Burdett

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light

Peter Perez Burdett · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Hunting the Deer, by Bradlee Whidden

Hunting the Deer

Bradlee Whidden · 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tiburcio Pérez y Cuervo (1785/86–1841), the Architect

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1820

Public domainThe Met
Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

Artist not stated in the record · April 30 - May 1, 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Thalictrum dioicum L.

Thalictrum dioicum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right hand section of St Peter preaching to the apostles, by Niccolò Vicentino

Right hand section of St Peter preaching to the apostles

Niccolò Vicentino · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Veronica officinalis L.

Veronica officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Penelope and Odysseus, by Ugo da Carpi

Penelope and Odysseus

Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27

Public domainThe Met
Heuchera americana L.

Heuchera americana L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

The Crucifixion

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1675

Public domainThe Met
Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michx.

Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

Study for a Crucifixion of St. Peter

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1628–30

Public domainThe Met
Amazona ochrocephala

Amazona ochrocephala

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel Leading Saint Peter out of Prison (?), by Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

Angel Leading Saint Peter out of Prison (?)

Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Helianthus tuberosus L.

Helianthus tuberosus L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene of Martyrdom (Crucifixion of Saint Peter?) (recto); Fragment of Design for Ornamental Border (verso), by Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

Scene of Martyrdom (Crucifixion of Saint Peter?) (recto); Fragment of Design for Ornamental Border (verso)

Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq.

Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child, by Lucas Vorsterman I

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child

Lucas Vorsterman I · 1620

Public domainThe Met
Tamias striatus fisheri

Tamias striatus fisheri

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child, by Lucas Vorsterman I

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a Child

Lucas Vorsterman I · 1620

Public domainThe Met
Rattus norvegicus

Rattus norvegicus

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle in the shape of a dog, by Nasca artist(s)

Bottle in the shape of a dog

Nasca artist(s) · 1–600 CE

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. 45 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 37871 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 13:16 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.