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 “Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 05:14 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.
Prie-dieu, by Stammer & Breul

Prie-dieu

Stammer & Breul · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Edward Allen Hannegan, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

Edward Allen Hannegan

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Young Peasant Women, by Camille Pissarro

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Silas Wright, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

Silas Wright

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Daniel Stevens Dickinson, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

Daniel Stevens Dickinson

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Andrew Jackson, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Andrew Jackson

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, by Thomas W. Commeraw

Jar

Thomas W. Commeraw · 1796–1819

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots, and her secretary, Chatelard (frontispiece, from "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine," volume 5), by Thomas Doney

Mary, Queen of Scots, and her secretary, Chatelard (frontispiece, from "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine," volume 5)

Thomas Doney · 1846

Public domainThe Met
United States Senate Chamber, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

United States Senate Chamber

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku), by Saotome Ietada

Armor (Gusoku)

Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Public domainThe Met
Distinguished Americans, by Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century

Distinguished Americans

Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Kish-ke-kosh - A Fox Brave

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for Man and Horse Presumably Made for Baron Pankraz von Freyberg (1508–1565), by Wolfgang Grosschedel

Armor for Man and Horse Presumably Made for Baron Pankraz von Freyberg (1508–1565)

Wolfgang Grosschedel · man's armor, ca. 1535–40; horse armor, dated 1554; saddle steels, later restorations

Public domainThe Met
Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief, by Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864

Ap-pa-noo-se - Saukie Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, active 1835 - 1864 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, by I N

Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London

I N · 1675/76

Public domainThe Met
The Christiana Tragedy, by John Osler, active mid 19th century

The Christiana Tragedy

John Osler, active mid 19th century · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Tustennuggee Emathla or Jim Boy - A Creek Chief, by Unidentified Artist

Tustennuggee Emathla or Jim Boy - A Creek Chief

Unidentified Artist · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Matthias and Thomas, by Bartolomeo Bulgarini

Saints Matthias and Thomas

Bartolomeo Bulgarini · ca. 1370–75

Public domainThe Met
Ne-o-mon-ne - An Ioway Chief, by Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838

Ne-o-mon-ne - An Ioway Chief

Frederick W. Greenough, active c. 1838 · 1838

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. 720 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. 187081 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-09 05:14 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.