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 Mansion House, London” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:22 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.
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
The Mansion House, London

The Mansion House, London

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine cooler (one of a pair), by William Lukin I

Wine cooler (one of a pair)

William Lukin I · 1716/17

Public domainThe Met
Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, from "Ackermann's Repository"

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunters in a Landscape, by Anonymous, 16th century

Hunters in a Landscape

Anonymous, 16th century · ca. 1575–95

Public domainThe Met
Eagle Hotel and Mansion House, from the album Views of Charlestown,New Hampshire, by Gotthelf Pach, active 1880s

Eagle Hotel and Mansion House, from the album Views of Charlestown,New Hampshire

Gotthelf Pach, active 1880s · 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Vase upon a pedestal, elevation of a mansion, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Vase upon a pedestal, elevation of a mansion

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teakettle, lamp, and table, by Simon Pantin I

Teakettle, lamp, and table

Simon Pantin I · 1724–25

Public domainThe Met
The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London, by John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c.

The Two Houses of Parliament, from Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, English, acitve 18th c. · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling clock watch with alarm, by Thomas Tompion

Traveling clock watch with alarm

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Mansion, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Elevation of Mansion

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · ca. 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantelpiece from Chesterfield House, London, by John Michael Rysbrack

Mantelpiece from Chesterfield House, London

John Michael Rysbrack · 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of Mansion, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Elevation of Mansion

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · ca. 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Paneling from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: City Street with Palaces

Stage Design: City Street with Palaces

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Settee

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Houses on the Bank of the Tougnes in Trouville, by Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876

Houses on the Bank of the Tougnes in Trouville

Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1840–1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

Artist not stated in the record · Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585

Public domainThe Met
A View of Somerset House with S. Marys Church, London, by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

A View of Somerset House with S. Marys Church, London

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan, by Paul Cézanne

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

Paul Cézanne · 1885–86

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England, by Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, British, 1745 - 1806 · 1786–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judgment of Paris, by Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

Judgment of Paris

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder · ca. 1753–56

Public domainThe Met
The Guildhall, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

The Guildhall

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1905

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. 3446 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. 1208065 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-03 10:22 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.