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. 19 shown for “Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898” — 31 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:53 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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 Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Woman, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Head of a Woman

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1870–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Entombment, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Entombment

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1879

Public domainThe Met
St. John, Cartoon for Carlisle Window, Paisley Abbey, Scotland, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

St. John, Cartoon for Carlisle Window, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Backgammon Players, by Philip Webb

The Backgammon Players

Philip Webb · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Adam and Eve, Design for Stained Glass Window, Frankby Church, Birkenhead (Cheshire), England, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Adam and Eve, Design for Stained Glass Window, Frankby Church, Birkenhead (Cheshire), England

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · May 27, 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bath of Venus, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Bath of Venus

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1890s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1870–74

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Month of March, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Month of March

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · ca. 1866

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Summons: Study for the Head of Gawaine, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Summons: Study for the Head of Gawaine

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1893

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Design for Stained Glass Window, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noah, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Noah

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · February 1, 1874

Public domainThe Met
Chauve-Souris (program), by Ralph Barton, 14 Aug 1891 - 19 May 1931

Chauve-Souris (program)

Ralph Barton, 14 Aug 1891 - 19 May 1931 · c. 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Figure of "Flora", by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Design for the Figure of "Flora"

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Female Head, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Study of a Female Head

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Good Words for 1862, by Norman Macleod

Good Words for 1862

Norman Macleod · 1862

Public domainThe Met
The Passing of Venus, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Passing of Venus

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1898

Public domainThe Met
The Vision of St. Francis, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Vision of St. Francis

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1887

Public domainThe Met
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. 40 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 06:53 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.