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. 17 shown for “Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814” — 45 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:24 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.
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Public domainThe Met
Tom Molineaux, by Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814

Tom Molineaux

Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Villa Madama, after H. Robert, by Jean François Janinet

Villa Madama, after H. Robert

Jean François Janinet · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
Old Man with a Staff

Old Man with a Staff

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact!, by James Gillray

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact!

James Gillray · February 20, 1805

Public domainThe Met
A Vocal Concert

A Vocal Concert

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clarinet in D, by Astor & Co.

Clarinet in D

Astor & Co. · 1820 or 1821

Public domainThe Met
Buteo lineatus

Buteo lineatus

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Louvre Courtyard

Louvre Courtyard

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Mr. Franklin, by Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880

Portrait of Mr. Franklin

Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880 · 1870–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bidens multiceps Fassett

Bidens multiceps Fassett

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agelaius phoeniceus

Agelaius phoeniceus

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melospiza melodia

Melospiza melodia

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bombycilla cedrorum

Bombycilla cedrorum

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rhacomitrium lanuginosis (Hedw.) Brid.

Rhacomitrium lanuginosis (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1940

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 824237 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 16:24 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.