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 “Sales Receipt” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:04 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.
Tax Receipt for Wine

Tax Receipt for Wine

Artist not stated in the record · 174 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sales Receipt

Sales Receipt

Artist not stated in the record · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead Christ Supported by Angels, by Francesco Trevisani

Dead Christ Supported by Angels

Francesco Trevisani · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Receipt for purchase of a man named Ned by Edward Rouzee from an estate sale

Receipt for purchase of a man named Ned by Edward Rouzee from an estate sale

Artist not stated in the record · September 18, 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a 16-year-old girl named Polly, by H. B. Boston

Bill of sale for a 16-year-old girl named Polly

H. B. Boston · December 23, 1835; modified 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis

Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis

Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis

Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis

Artist not stated in the record · November 1, 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, by Paul Gauguin

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

Paul Gauguin · 1896

Public domainThe Met
Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Receipt given to the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station

Artist not stated in the record · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Receipt from Photo Supply Ltd. from the studio of H.C. Anderson, by Unidentified

Receipt from Photo Supply Ltd. from the studio of H.C. Anderson

Unidentified · 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
George IV (1762–1830), When Prince of Wales, by Sir William Beechey

George IV (1762–1830), When Prince of Wales

Sir William Beechey

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a woman, Laurett, and her daughter, Anne, by S. E. Lafar, American

Bill of sale for a woman, Laurett, and her daughter, Anne

S. E. Lafar, American · 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for Hannah and her children, Clarinda and Stephen

Bill of sale for Hannah and her children, Clarinda and Stephen

Artist not stated in the record · March 3, 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset, by Johan Christian Dahl

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children

Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman (Marianna Panciatichi, marchesa Paolucci delle Roncole, 1835–1919, or her sister-in-law, Beatrice Ferrari-Corbelli di Reggio, contessa di Lucciano), by Michele Gordigiani

Portrait of a Woman (Marianna Panciatichi, marchesa Paolucci delle Roncole, 1835–1919, or her sister-in-law, Beatrice Ferrari-Corbelli di Reggio, contessa di Lucciano)

Michele Gordigiani · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Bill of sale for a 17 year old girl named Mary

Bill of sale for a 17 year old girl named Mary

Artist not stated in the record · December 30, 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, by Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas

Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas

Artist not stated in the record · 1955

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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 11115 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-01 01:04 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.