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. 20 shown for “Robert Dunkarton” — 54 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 03:22 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.
Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

Robert Dunkarton · ca. 1816

Public domainThe Met
Robert Richford Roberts, by John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865

Robert Richford Roberts

John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

Robert Dunkarton · ca. 1816

Public domainThe Met
Robert F. Kennedy, by Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988

Robert F. Kennedy

Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988 · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

Robert Dunkarton · ca. 1816

Public domainThe Met
Robert Penn Warren, by Oscar White, born 1921

Robert Penn Warren

Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sigismunda, by Robert Dunkarton

Sigismunda

Robert Dunkarton · February 1, 1793

Public domainThe Met
Robert Morris, by Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788

Robert Morris

Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · c. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

Robert Dunkarton · ca. 1816

Public domainThe Met
Robert F. Kennedy, by Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988

Robert F. Kennedy

Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988 · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Horneck, by Robert Dunkarton

Mary Horneck

Robert Dunkarton · February 1, 1778

Public domainThe Met
Robert F. Kennedy, by Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988

Robert F. Kennedy

Gardner Cox, 22 Jan 1906 - 14 Jan 1988 · 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21, part IX, plate 46 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21, part IX, plate 46 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · April 23, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Robert Frost, by Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934

Robert Frost

Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hind Head Hill, on the Portsmouth Road (Liber Studiorum, part V, plate 25), by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hind Head Hill, on the Portsmouth Road (Liber Studiorum, part V, plate 25)

Joseph Mallord William Turner · January 1, 1811

Public domainThe Met
Solomon Robert Guggenheim, by László Moholy-Nagy, 20 Jul 1895 - 24 Nov 1946

Solomon Robert Guggenheim

László Moholy-Nagy, 20 Jul 1895 - 24 Nov 1946 · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21 (Liber Studiorum, part IX, plate 46), by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21 (Liber Studiorum, part IX, plate 46)

Joseph Mallord William Turner · May 23, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Hind Head Hill, On the Portsmouth Road, part V, plate 25 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hind Head Hill, On the Portsmouth Road, part V, plate 25 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · January 1, 1811

Public domainThe Met
Water Mill, part VII, plate 37 from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Water Mill, part VII, plate 37 from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · February 1, 1812

Public domainThe Met
Young Anglers, part VII from "Liber Studiorum", by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Young Anglers, part VII from "Liber Studiorum"

Joseph Mallord William Turner · June 1, 1811

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 151175 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 03:22 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.