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 “Sir Horace Jones” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:04 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.
Guildhall, London: The Great Hall, Facing East, by Sir Horace Jones

Guildhall, London: The Great Hall, Facing East

Sir Horace Jones · ca. 1864

Public domainThe Met
Melville Horace Warner, by Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896

Melville Horace Warner

Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Michael's Church, Cherry Burton: North East View, by Sir Horace Jones

St. Michael's Church, Cherry Burton: North East View

Sir Horace Jones · 1845–50

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 Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

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 Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

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
The Entombment, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Entombment

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1879

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 Backgammon Players, by Philip Webb

The Backgammon Players

Philip Webb · 1861

Public domainThe Met
The Calmady Children, by Unidentified (British)

The Calmady Children

Unidentified (British) · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, by Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus

Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Littleton, by Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

Mrs. Littleton

Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones

The grammar of ornament

Owen Jones · 1868

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
Mary Capel (1630–1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633–1678), Countess of Carnarvon, by Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

Mary Capel (1630–1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633–1678), Countess of Carnarvon

Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

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
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
Walter Sir Raleigh, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Walter Sir Raleigh

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Santa Lucia, Naples, by Calvert Richard Jones

Santa Lucia, Naples

Calvert Richard Jones · 1845–46

Public domainThe Met
Sir Edward Coke, by Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647

Sir Edward Coke

Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1616-1621

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
Sir Thomas Smythe (Smith), by Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647

Sir Thomas Smythe (Smith)

Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1617

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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 37801 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 12:04 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.