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 Francis Dicksee” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:12 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.
A Labour of Love, from "Illustrated News of the World", by Thomas Francis Dicksee

A Labour of Love, from "Illustrated News of the World"

Thomas Francis Dicksee · March 24, 1860

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Francis Meagher, by Thomas S. Wagner Lithography Co., active 1840 - 1865?

Thomas Francis Meagher

Thomas S. Wagner Lithography Co., active 1840 - 1865? · c. 1861-64

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

The grammar of ornament

Owen Jones · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Francis Meagher, by Unidentified Artist

Thomas Francis Meagher

Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis, by Federico Barocci

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Francis Meagher, by Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865

Thomas Francis Meagher

Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Saithwaite Family, by Francis Wheatley

The Saithwaite Family

Francis Wheatley · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Francis Meagher, by Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869

Thomas Francis Meagher

Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869 · c. 1862-64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Valley of Wyoming, by Jasper Francis Cropsey

The Valley of Wyoming

Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Francis Meagher, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Thomas Francis Meagher

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mother and Son, by Thomas Sully

Mother and Son

Thomas Sully · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Album of Portraits of Celebrities, by Shoppell, active c. 1882

Album of Portraits of Celebrities

Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Repeating watch, by Francis Perigal

Repeating watch

Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Thomas F. Meagher

Thomas F. Meagher

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Patrick Francis Glassey, by H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891?

Patrick Francis Glassey

H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891? · c. 1887-91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Thomas F. Meagher

Thomas F. Meagher

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion, by Thomas Tompion

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion

Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80

Public domainThe Met
Patrick Francis Glassey, by H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891?

Patrick Francis Glassey

H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891? · c. 1887-91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Peter Paul Rubens

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Walker Gilmer, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Thomas Walker Gilmer

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Sullivan Brothers, by Unidentified Artist

Sullivan Brothers

Unidentified Artist · 1943

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. 2558 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. 189758 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 2026-09-05 10:12 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.