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. 14 shown for “Robert Dodd” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:56 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 Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4, by Robert Dodd

The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4

Robert Dodd · January 1, 1792

Public domainThe Met
View of Grosvenor Square, by Robert Pollard, English, 1755 - 1838

View of Grosvenor Square

Robert Pollard, English, 1755 - 1838 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by John Raphael Smith

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774

Public domainThe Met
View of Queen Square, by Robert Pollard, English, 1755 - 1838

View of Queen Square

Robert Pollard, English, 1755 - 1838 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by John Raphael Smith

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, by William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

William Blake · [1789–94] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Experience: Title-page, by William Blake

Songs of Experience: Title-page

William Blake · [1794] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence: Title Page, by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: Title Page

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song, by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate), by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence: Night (second plate), by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: Night (second plate)

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image, by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Experience: The School Boy, by William Blake

Songs of Experience: The School Boy

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost, by William Blake

Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost

William Blake · [1794] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
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. 71 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. 152241 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:56 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.