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. 12 shown for “Seated Lady” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:49 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Seated Lady

Seated Lady

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coins on Simulated Alligator Skin, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Coins on Simulated Alligator Skin

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button with Painted Seated Lady

Button with Painted Seated Lady

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button with Painted Seated Lady

Button with Painted Seated Lady

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figural Group of a Cherub and a Seated Lady, by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Figural Group of a Cherub and a Seated Lady

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harmony

Harmony

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maternal Affection

Maternal Affection

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrimshaw etched with patriotic theme owned by John Wesley Cromwell, by Unidentified

Scrimshaw etched with patriotic theme owned by John Wesley Cromwell

Unidentified · 1800-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustration for Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock". vol.1, p. 141, by Alexander Pope

Illustration for Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock". vol.1, p. 141

Alexander Pope · 1825 - 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Full size sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Full size sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · ca. 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts], by Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France

Sketch for a cartoon for cotton printing:The Arts [Les Arts]

Hartmann et Fils, Munster, France · possibly 1815–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15412 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-29 02:49 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.