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. 18 shown for “Robert Laurie” — 57 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:49 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.
Virgin and Child, by Robert Laurie

Virgin and Child

Robert Laurie · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Erigeron speciosus (Lindl.) DC.

Erigeron speciosus (Lindl.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Kirtlington Park, by John Sanderson

Dining room from Kirtlington Park

John Sanderson · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Solidago velutina DC.

Solidago velutina DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye Water near ye Court at ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle. Oct. 18. 1748) & Exhibited June 13, 1749, by Robert Laurie

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye Water near ye Court at ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle. Oct. 18. 1748) & Exhibited June 13, 1749

Robert Laurie · 1794

Public domainThe Met
Phoradendron tomentosum subsp. macrophyllum DC.

Phoradendron tomentosum subsp. macrophyllum DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of the Temple of Concord Erected in the Green Park, to Celebrate the Glorious Peace of 1814, Exhibiting the Fireworks on the 1st of August, by Robert Laurie

A View of the Temple of Concord Erected in the Green Park, to Celebrate the Glorious Peace of 1814, Exhibiting the Fireworks on the 1st of August

Robert Laurie · September 9, 1814

Public domainThe Met
Dicranum spurium Hedw.

Dicranum spurium Hedw.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Pistol Made for Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697), by Bertrand Piraube

Flintlock Pistol Made for Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697)

Bertrand Piraube · dated 1676

Public domainThe Met
Ulota hutchinsiae (Sm.) Hammar

Ulota hutchinsiae (Sm.) Hammar

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Andreaea rothii F. Weber & D. Mohr

Andreaea rothii F. Weber & D. Mohr

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter, by Massimiliano Soldani

The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter

Massimiliano Soldani · modeled 1722, probably cast 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Ruins of the Palatine Hill, by Joseph Benoît Suvée

Ruins of the Palatine Hill

Joseph Benoît Suvée · ca. 1772–76

Public domainThe Met
Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well, by Johannes van Ceulen

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen · ca. 1676–80

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 5 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. 151795 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:49 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.