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 “Picture with stumpwork embroidery” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:19 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.
Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Picture with stumpwork embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Abigail

David and Abigail

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Mary Wright

Embroidered Picture

Mary Wright · ca. 1754

Public domainThe Met
Green coat worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Green coat worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet with personifications of the Five Senses

Cabinet with personifications of the Five Senses

Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with stumpwork embroidery

Panel with stumpwork embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene

Needlework Picture with Maypole Scene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Winter" Needlework Picture, by Hannah Jane Robinson

"Winter" Needlework Picture

Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Joseph's Dream, by Dexter, Lucy

Joseph's Dream

Dexter, Lucy · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered Picture, by Elizabeth Folwell's School

Embroidered Picture

Elizabeth Folwell's School · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered and Painted Picture

Embroidered and Painted Picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Shepherdess of the Alps, by Evelina Hull

The Shepherdess of the Alps

Evelina Hull · ca. 1812

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 115 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 254554 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 09:19 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.