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 “St. Martins, in the Fields, from "Ackermann's Repository"” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 11:01 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.
Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, by Francí Gomar

Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló

Francí Gomar · ca. 1456–1458

Public domainThe Met
St. Martins, in the Fields, from "Ackermann's Repository"

St. Martins, in the Fields, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), by Unknown

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729)

Unknown · probably shortly before 1704

Public domainThe Met
St. Stephan's Walbrook, from "Ackermann's Repository"

St. Stephan's Walbrook, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · dated 1527

Public domainThe Met
St. Paul's Cathedral, from "Ackermann's Repository"

St. Paul's Cathedral, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland, by Jacob Halder

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland

Jacob Halder · 1586

Public domainThe Met
St. Margarets, Westminster, from "Ackermann's Repository"

St. Margarets, Westminster, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Fields, by Jacob van Ruisdael

Wheat Fields

Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Watch House, St. Mary le Bone, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Watch House, St. Mary le Bone, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

Public domainThe Met
Workhouse, St. James Parish, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Workhouse, St. James Parish, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
St. Luke's Hospital, from "Ackermann's Repository"

St. Luke's Hospital, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Drawing Room St. James's, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Drawing Room St. James's, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
The Roman Catholic Chapel, Lincolns Inn Fields, from "Ackermann's Repository"

The Roman Catholic Chapel, Lincolns Inn Fields, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke, by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Public domainThe Met
Water Engine, Coldbath Field's Prison, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Water Engine, Coldbath Field's Prison, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prayer in the Mosque, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque

Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Public domainThe Met
Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Page from Ackermann's "Repository of the Arts, Science etc,"

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

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. 1458 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. 7484422 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 11:01 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.