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 “Preston Powers, born Florence, Italy 1843-died Florence, Italy 1931” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:56 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 Demidoff Table, by Lorenzo Bartolini

The Demidoff Table

Lorenzo Bartolini · 1845

Public domainThe Met
Justin Smith Morrill, by Preston Powers, born Florence, Italy 1843-died Florence, Italy 1931

Justin Smith Morrill

Preston Powers, born Florence, Italy 1843-died Florence, Italy 1931 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony of Padua, by Maso di Banco

Saint Anthony of Padua

Maso di Banco · ca. 1340

Public domainThe Met
Louise Penelope Davis Preston, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Louise Penelope Davis Preston

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Senator William Campbell Preston, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Senator William Campbell Preston

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Margaret Frances Preston Hampton, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Margaret Frances Preston Hampton

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned, by Master of the Magdalen

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Master of the Magdalen

Public domainThe Met
Fisher Boy, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Fisher Boy

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1843-1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man of Sorrows, by Niccolò di Tommaso

Man of Sorrows

Niccolò di Tommaso · ca. 1370

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (transfer drawing for Florence from Monte Oliveto [No. 2]), by George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939

Untitled (transfer drawing for Florence from Monte Oliveto [No. 2])

George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939 · ca. 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Presentation in the Temple, by Alvaro Pirez

The Presentation in the Temple

Alvaro Pirez · ca. 1405–15

Public domainThe Met
Catherine Hampton, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Catherine Hampton

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Public domainThe Met
Death Mask of Hiram Powers, by Thomas Ball, born Charlestown, MA 1819-died Montclair, NJ 1911

Death Mask of Hiram Powers

Thomas Ball, born Charlestown, MA 1819-died Montclair, NJ 1911 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550), by Barthel Beham

Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550)

Barthel Beham · 1527

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Lamentation

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
The Greek Slave, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

The Greek Slave

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Ginevra, by Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873

Ginevra

Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1842

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. 271 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 178 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 15:56 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.