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. 24 shown for “Robert Mitchell Meadows” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 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.
Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1), by Robert Mitchell Meadows

Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1)

Robert Mitchell Meadows · August 1, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Robert Byington Mitchell, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Robert Byington Mitchell

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Newburyport Meadows, by Martin Johnson Heade

Newburyport Meadows

Martin Johnson Heade · ca. 1876–81

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (landscape with meadow and trees), by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Untitled (landscape with meadow and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Dromogomphus spinosus

Dromogomphus spinosus

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla rectiformis Rydb.

Potentilla rectiformis Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Lathyrus lanszwertii Kellogg

Lathyrus lanszwertii Kellogg

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nose Ornament

Nose Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow), by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb.

Rhododendron lapponicum (L.) Wahlenb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing], by Robert Boning

[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing]

Robert Boning · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Trautvetteria caroliniensis (Walter) Vail

Trautvetteria caroliniensis (Walter) Vail

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri], by S. C. Burgess

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri]

S. C. Burgess · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Saxifraga bronchialis subsp. funstonii (Small) Hultén

Saxifraga bronchialis subsp. funstonii (Small) Hultén

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plans, And Views in Perspective. With Descriptions, Of Buildings Erected In England and Scotland: and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs., by Robert Mitchell

Plans, And Views in Perspective. With Descriptions, Of Buildings Erected In England and Scotland: and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs.

Robert Mitchell · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Astragalus atratus var. inseptus Barneby

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Argia moesta

Argia moesta

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Argia translata

Argia translata

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 2002

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. 113 matched · 24 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. 182706 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 13:53 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.