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 “Sarah Freeman Clarke” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 02:27 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.
Egyptian Revival Triptych, by Sarah Freeman Clarke

Egyptian Revival Triptych

Sarah Freeman Clarke · 1874 or after

Public domainThe Met
Trillium stamineum Harb.

Trillium stamineum Harb.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Freeman Clarke, by Southworth and Hawes

James Freeman Clarke

Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
William Hull, by Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1808 - c. 1890

William Hull

Sara Ann Freeman Clarke, 1808 - c. 1890 · c. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon var. isophyllum (Scribn.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon var. isophyllum (Scribn.) Gould & C.A. Clark

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dancer with a Fan, by Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of George Bennett (1804-1893), by Freeman (late Oswald Allen)

Portrait of George Bennett (1804-1893)

Freeman (late Oswald Allen) · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilted tablecover, by Sarah Clark Parsons

Quilted tablecover

Sarah Clark Parsons · ca. 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Trillium discolor Wray ex Hook.

Trillium discolor Wray ex Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sigismonda (Sigismunda), by Benjamin Smith

Sigismonda (Sigismunda)

Benjamin Smith · June 4, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Cyperus victoriensis C.B. Clarke

Cyperus victoriensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Singer in Green, by Edgar Degas

The Singer in Green

Edgar Degas · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Prince Fenn's Sampler, by Fenn, Sarah Prince

Sarah Prince Fenn's Sampler

Fenn, Sarah Prince · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Barnard, by John Michael Rysbrack

John Barnard

John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Public domainThe Met
John Clarke, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

John Clarke

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Annibale Carracci

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Public domainThe Met
William Clarke, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

William Clarke

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital

Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Clark, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Daniel Clark

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital

Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Trillium albidum J. D. Freeman

Trillium albidum J. D. Freeman

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Column Base

Double Column Base

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Coleotrype natalensis C.B. Clarke

Coleotrype natalensis C.B. Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 2015

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. 181 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 83555 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-08 02:27 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.