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. 12 shown for “Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825” — 12 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:32 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.
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Portrait of a Gentleman

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melons and Morning Glories, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Melons and Morning Glories

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jonathan Jones Wheeler, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Jonathan Jones Wheeler

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Oliphant, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Robert Oliphant

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catherine Douglas Dickson, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Catherine Douglas Dickson

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Child, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Portrait of a Child

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D., by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D.

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens Peale, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

Rubens Peale

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George Fisher, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

George Fisher

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William E. Dickson, by Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825

William E. Dickson

Raphaelle Peale, born Annapolis, MD 1774-died Philadelphia, PA 1825 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Oliphant, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Elizabeth Oliphant

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Lee Shippen, by James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Thomas Lee Shippen

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12 matched · 12 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 02:32 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.