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. 12 shown for “Thomas Shotter Boys” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Piccadilly Looking Toward the City, by Thomas Shotter Boys, English, 1803 – 1874

Piccadilly Looking Toward the City

Thomas Shotter Boys, English, 1803 – 1874 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pavillon de Flore Tuileries, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

Pavillon de Flore Tuileries

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Notre Dame, Paris from the Quai Saint Bernard, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

Notre Dame, Paris from the Quai Saint Bernard

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, Antwerp, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

Fish Market, Antwerp

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris, by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

St. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon, Paris

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc.", by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850

Title Page, "Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc."

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, British, 1789–1850 · 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aeroplane duet Kitty, Donald lyric by Grant Stewart ; music by Henry Berény, by Berény, Henri 1871-1932

Aeroplane duet Kitty, Donald lyric by Grant Stewart ; music by Henry Berény

Berény, Henri 1871-1932 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Little Boy Blue, by Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953

Little Boy Blue

Grace Lincoln Temple, 1865–1953 · 1890–1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of a Boy Riding a Donkey and Camel Heads, by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796

Studies of a Boy Riding a Donkey and Camel Heads

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for Boy Reclining in "Arcadia", by Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

Study for Boy Reclining in "Arcadia"

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1883)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Verbascum blattarioides Lam.

Verbascum blattarioides Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/66 to /8/66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy with the Torn Hat, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Boy with the Torn Hat

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1915

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 130478 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 2026-09-03 13:36 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.