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 “Phipps's” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:24 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.
Slippers, by Phipps's

Slippers

Phipps's · 1830–49

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus atrovirens J.B. Phipps & O'Kennon

Crataegus atrovirens J.B. Phipps & O'Kennon

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Positive Organ

Positive Organ

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus x canescens (J.B. Phipps) T.A. Dickinson & E.Y.Y. Lo

Crataegus x canescens (J.B. Phipps) T.A. Dickinson & E.Y.Y. Lo

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor

Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Danthoniopsis parva (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Danthoniopsis parva (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/5/63

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal

Cylinder seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2900–2700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tristachya viridearistata (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Tristachya viridearistata (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 22/7/64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lion's Share, by John Doyle

The Lion's Share

John Doyle · February 5, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Phippsiomeles microcarpa subsp. hintonii (J.B. Phipps) B.B. Liu & J. Wen

Phippsiomeles microcarpa subsp. hintonii (J.B. Phipps) B.B. Liu & J. Wen

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Leaf Out of Nicholas Nickleby with Slight Variations – Nicholas quits the Company – Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles, by John Doyle

A Leaf Out of Nicholas Nickleby with Slight Variations – Nicholas quits the Company – Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles

John Doyle · March 26, 1839

Public domainThe Met
Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/7/64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Thimble Rig!, by John Doyle

The Thimble Rig!

John Doyle · June 5, 1839

Public domainThe Met
Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/4/65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feeding the Animals – A Change of Diet!, by John Doyle

Feeding the Animals – A Change of Diet!

John Doyle · February 12, 1839

Public domainThe Met
Tristachya viridearistata (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Tristachya viridearistata (J.B. Phipps) Clayton

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 22/7/64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Van Amburgh. Outdone!, by John Doyle

Van Amburgh. Outdone!

John Doyle · December 3, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Zonotriche decora (Stapf) J.B. Phipps

Zonotriche decora (Stapf) J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/7/64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Tristachya lualabaensis (De Wild.) J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/4/65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pin (ttipqui), by Peruvian artist(s)

Pin (ttipqui)

Peruvian artist(s) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus okennonii J.B. Phipps

Crataegus okennonii J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769–1788), Later Lady Mulgrave, by Gainsborough Dupont

Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769–1788), Later Lady Mulgrave

Gainsborough Dupont

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus tracyi var. madrensis J.B. Phipps

Crataegus tracyi var. madrensis J.B. Phipps

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1985

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. 104 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 528 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 04:24 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.