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. 16 shown for “Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833” — 20 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:48 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 Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Mounted Chinese Vase on a Pedestal, for the Music Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion, by Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833

Mounted Chinese Vase on a Pedestal, for the Music Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion

Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Goldsmith in his Shop, by Petrus Christus

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus · 1449

Public domainThe Met
Mantelpiece Detail, Music Room, by Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833

Mantelpiece Detail, Music Room

Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Art treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by Francis Bedford

Art treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester

Francis Bedford · 1858

Public domainThe Met
Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Artist not stated in the record · 1817–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth, by Henry Meyer

Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth

Henry Meyer · March 20, 1815

Public domainThe Met
sidewall, by Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833

sidewall

Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · 1817–27

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!, by James Gillray

Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!

James Gillray · 1824–27

Public domainThe Met
Chimney-piece, West Wall of Music Room, by Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833

Chimney-piece, West Wall of Music Room

Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice, by James Gillray

Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray · June 20, 1789

Public domainThe Met
Elephant and Castle, Newington, by George Hunt, British, active 1824 - 1831

Elephant and Castle, Newington

George Hunt, British, active 1824 - 1831 · 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[American naval monument]

[American naval monument]

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1816–ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Montage of American Theatrical Figures, by Unidentified Artist

Montage of American Theatrical Figures

Unidentified Artist · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · middle or second half of 19th century, in the style of a mid-13th century Limoges original

Public domainThe Met
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10 matched · 10 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 06:48 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.