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 Holland I” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 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.
Feeding cup, by Thomas Holland I

Feeding cup

Thomas Holland I · 1707–8

Public domainThe Met
Melochia lupulina Sw.

Melochia lupulina Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1897

Public domainThe Met
Rutidosis crispata A.E. Holland

Rutidosis crispata A.E. Holland

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Atriplex sp.

Atriplex sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1801

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
Cymbonotus maidenii (Beauverd) A.E. Holland & V.A. Funk

Cymbonotus maidenii (Beauverd) A.E. Holland & V.A. Funk

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 2001

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

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Aristolochia grandiflora Sw.

Aristolochia grandiflora Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Bauhinia divaricata L.

Bauhinia divaricata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Dicliptera sexangularis (L.) Juss.

Dicliptera sexangularis (L.) Juss.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Winsertor on the Messberg Hamburg (recto); View of the City Walls of Hamburg (verso), by Anthonie Waterloo

The Winsertor on the Messberg Hamburg (recto); View of the City Walls of Hamburg (verso)

Anthonie Waterloo · ca. 1658-60

Public domainThe Met
Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.

Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy of an Antique Bas Relief: Dionysus Seated by a Table, by Jan de Bisschop

Copy of an Antique Bas Relief: Dionysus Seated by a Table

Jan de Bisschop · mid 17th Century

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1616-1621

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Sir Thomas More, by Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625

Sir Thomas More

Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1600-1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole · 1836

Public domainThe Met
Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, by Bernard Romans

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775

Bernard Romans · ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Acrotriche serrulata R. Br.

Acrotriche serrulata R. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · 1801 to 1810

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. 2799 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 292258 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 21:20 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.