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 Walter Weir” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.
Study for "The Agony in the Garden", by Robert Walter Weir

Study for "The Agony in the Garden"

Robert Walter Weir

Public domainThe Met
Robert Walter Weir, by Unidentified Artist

Robert Walter Weir

Unidentified Artist · c. 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shipwreck, by Robert Walter Weir

Shipwreck

Robert Walter Weir

Public domainThe Met
Prof. and Mrs. Robert Walter Weir, by Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896

Prof. and Mrs. Robert Walter Weir

Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches (from McGuire Scrapbook), by Robert Walter Weir

Sketches (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Robert Walter Weir

Public domainThe Met
Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha), by Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)

Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Robert Walter Weir

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Robert Walter Weir

Public domainThe Met
Winfield Scott, by Robert Walter Weir, 18 Jun 1803 - 1 May 1889

Winfield Scott

Robert Walter Weir, 18 Jun 1803 - 1 May 1889 · c. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Winfield Scott, by Robert Walter Weir

General Winfield Scott

Robert Walter Weir · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
(Moses Viewing the Promised Land), by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

(Moses Viewing the Promised Land)

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1860-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Entrance to a Wood, by Robert Walter Weir

The Entrance to a Wood

Robert Walter Weir · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Foraging, by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Foraging

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit, by Julian Alden Weir

Fruit

Julian Alden Weir · ca. 1888

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Hamilton, by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Thomas Hamilton

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert C. Sands, by Asher Brown Durand

Robert C. Sands

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1829

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Hamilton, by Illman & Pilbrow, active New York City ca. 1829 -1836

Thomas Hamilton

Illman & Pilbrow, active New York City ca. 1829 -1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dying Greek, by Asher Brown Durand

The Dying Greek

Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
St. Nicholas, by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

St. Nicholas

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page: The New York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Embellished with Engravings and Music, Volume IX, by Asher Brown Durand

Title Page: The New York Mirror, A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Embellished with Engravings and Music, Volume IX

Asher Brown Durand · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Embarkation of the Pilgrims, by Samuel Bellin, English, born London, England 1799-died London, England 1894

Embarkation of the Pilgrims

Samuel Bellin, English, born London, England 1799-died London, England 1894 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Church of the Holy Innocents, Highland Falls, New York, by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Church of the Holy Innocents, Highland Falls, New York

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joan of Arc, by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Dr. Caius, Simple and Dame Quickly, by Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Dr. Caius, Simple and Dame Quickly

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889 · 1830

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. 799 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 219905 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.