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 Girtin” — 57 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:33 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.
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland, by Thomas Girtin

Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland

Thomas Girtin · 1796–97

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River at Norwich, by Thomas Girtin

River at Norwich

Thomas Girtin · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Extensive Landscape with Farm Buildings and Church Ruin, by Thomas Girtin

An Extensive Landscape with Farm Buildings and Church Ruin

Thomas Girtin · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

Thomas Jefferson

Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deer in Windsor Forest, by Thomas Girtin

Deer in Windsor Forest

Thomas Girtin · 1793–94

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Unidentified Artist

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horses and pigs in a landscape, Windsor, by Thomas Girtin

Horses and pigs in a landscape, Windsor

Thomas Girtin · 1793–94

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818

Thomas Jefferson

Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, by Thomas Girtin

St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand

Thomas Girtin · 1795–96

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Thomas Jefferson

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Waterworks at Marli, and St. German en Laye seen in the distance (La Machine de Marli, avec une vue eloignée de St. German en Laye), by Thomas Girtin

The Waterworks at Marli, and St. German en Laye seen in the distance (La Machine de Marli, avec une vue eloignée de St. German en Laye)

Thomas Girtin · 1803

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Unidentified Artist

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tivoli, Villa of Maecenas and part of the Cascatelle, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Tivoli, Villa of Maecenas and part of the Cascatelle

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1794–97

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by John Scoles, 1793 - 1844?

Thomas Jefferson

John Scoles, 1793 - 1844? · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Easby Abbey, by Thomas Girtin

Easby Abbey

Thomas Girtin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Edward Orme, 1775 - 1848

Thomas Jefferson

Edward Orme, 1775 - 1848 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honister Pass from Gatesgarth Farm, Gatesgarthdale, Lake District, by Edward Dayes

The Honister Pass from Gatesgarth Farm, Gatesgarthdale, Lake District

Edward Dayes · 1789–1804

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832

Thomas Jefferson

Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fishing Luggers (Chasse-marée) Making Sail, Off Calais, by Louis François Thomas Francia

Fishing Luggers (Chasse-marée) Making Sail, Off Calais

Louis François Thomas Francia · ca. 1823

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Unidentified Artist

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist · before 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dark Prison (Carcere Oscura), by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dark Prison (Carcere Oscura)

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1790–99

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Jefferson, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Thomas Jefferson

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1902

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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 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. 119233 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-01 16:33 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.