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 “The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 22:30 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 Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9

The Liberator Vol. VII, No. 9

Artist not stated in the record · February 25, 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 8, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 8

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · February 23, 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 26, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 26

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 27, 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · ca. 1643

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 22, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 22

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · May 29, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 23, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 23

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 5, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilet of Bathsheba, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 20, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XV, No. 20

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · May 16, 1845

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
The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 6, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 6

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · February 8, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goblet, by Gorham Manufacturing Company

Goblet

Gorham Manufacturing Company · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · November 23, 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Henry IV, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Triumph of Henry IV

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 11, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 11

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · March 13, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The True Peace Commissioners, by Currier & Ives

The True Peace Commissioners

Currier & Ives · 1865

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVI, No. 26

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 27, 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thomas Sully, by John Neagle

Thomas Sully

John Neagle · 1831

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 25, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXVII, No. 25

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · June 19, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Public domainThe Met
The Liberator, Vol. XXIV, No. 16, by The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865

The Liberator, Vol. XXIV, No. 16

The Liberator, American, 1831 - 1865 · April 21, 1854

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. 102 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. 1607089 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-08 22:30 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.