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 “Simon Guillain II” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:40 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.
Plate 39: Vendor of Caps, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 39: Vendor of Caps

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Chaetanthera revoluta (Phil.) Cabrera

Chaetanthera revoluta (Phil.) Cabrera

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 72: Donut vendor, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 72: Donut vendor

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Parastrephia teretiuscula (Kuntze) Cabrera

Parastrephia teretiuscula (Kuntze) Cabrera

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 50: Chimney sweep, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 50: Chimney sweep

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Chaetanthera revoluta (Phil.) Cabrera

Chaetanthera revoluta (Phil.) Cabrera

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 67: Fisherman, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 67: Fisherman

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Mutisia castellanosii Cabrera

Mutisia castellanosii Cabrera

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 8: Vendor of baskets, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 8: Vendor of baskets

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Perezia purpurata Wedd.

Perezia purpurata Wedd.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 20: Wool carder, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 20: Wool carder

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jan 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 34: Flour sifter, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 34: Flour sifter

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part II, as well as works by Henri Sallembier, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Album of Prints: Different Works by LaLonde, Decorator and Designer, Part II, as well as works by Henri Sallembier

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 7: Vendor of glassware, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 7: Vendor of glassware

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Pharus virescens Döll

Pharus virescens Döll

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1988 to 28 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 76: A procuress, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 76: A procuress

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Pharus latifolius L.

Pharus latifolius L.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 62: Bird catcher, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 62: Bird catcher

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Piresia goeldii Swallen

Piresia goeldii Swallen

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1988 to 28 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 71: Trinket vendor, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 71: Trinket vendor

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Reitzia sympodica ined. 2019

Reitzia sympodica ined. 2019

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 63: Postman, by Simon Guillain II

Plate 63: Postman

Simon Guillain II · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Calyptrocarya sp.

Calyptrocarya sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1988 to 28 May 1988

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. 706 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. 44351 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 15:40 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.