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 “Schelte Adams à Bolswert” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 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.
The Return from Egypt, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The Return from Egypt

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · 1595–1659

Public domainThe Met
Great Lion Hunt

Great Lion Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The drunken Silenus, supported by a satyr and a faun, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The drunken Silenus, supported by a satyr and a faun

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · 1625–59

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint Anne, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The Holy Family with Saint Anne

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1625–35

Public domainThe Met
Titlepage, "The Farmhouse and Landscape Series", by Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651

Titlepage, "The Farmhouse and Landscape Series"

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 – 1651 · 1614

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

Saint Catherine

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1600–59

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ignatius Loyola, standing and holding an open book, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

Saint Ignatius Loyola, standing and holding an open book

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1623–33

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of illustration of steamboat Kate Adams

Photograph of illustration of steamboat Kate Adams

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis Xavier with a divine light emanating towards him from the upper left, with a crucifix, mitre, and book on a table at left, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

Saint Francis Xavier with a divine light emanating towards him from the upper left, with a crucifix, mitre, and book on a table at left

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1623–33

Public domainThe Met
Georgianna Frances Adams, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Georgianna Frances Adams

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin and Christ child, with Saint John the Baptist showing them a bird at right, Saint Anne in the background at right, and a putto at lower left, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The Virgin and Christ child, with Saint John the Baptist showing them a bird at right, Saint Anne in the background at right, and a putto at lower left

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1600–59

Public domainThe Met
Carex juniperorum Catling et al.

Carex juniperorum Catling et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary reading with two putti overhead and Saint Joachim behind them at right, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary reading with two putti overhead and Saint Joachim behind them at right

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1630–54

Public domainThe Met
Louisa Catherine Adams Clement, by Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950

Louisa Catherine Adams Clement

Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with a parrot, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The Holy Family with a parrot

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1625–59

Public domainThe Met
Mary Louisa Adams, by Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886

Mary Louisa Adams

Asher B. Durand, born Jefferson Village, NJ 1796-died Maplewood, NJ 1886 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine holding palm leaves and a sword, two putti overhead holding a laurel, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

Saint Catherine holding palm leaves and a sword, two putti overhead holding a laurel

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1625–59

Public domainThe Met
John Quincy Adams, by George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879

John Quincy Adams

George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879 · c. 1850, from an 1844 original

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Ignatius of Loyola, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1633–59

Public domainThe Met
Helen Adams Keller, by Whitman, 19th - 20th century

Helen Adams Keller

Whitman, 19th - 20th century · 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saint Anne, by Schelte Adams à Bolswert

The Holy Family with Saint Anne

Schelte Adams à Bolswert · ca. 1625–35

Public domainThe Met
John Quincy Adams, by William Hudson Jr., 30 Dec 1820 - 7 Aug 1907

John Quincy Adams

William Hudson Jr., 30 Dec 1820 - 7 Aug 1907 · 1844

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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1774446 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-02 08:58 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.