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 Vivarés, British, 1735 - 1810” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:19 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires. Volume II. Containing the Five Following Numbers, viz... and vol. III, Containing the Remainder of the Designs..., by Robert Adam

The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires. Volume II. Containing the Five Following Numbers, viz... and vol. III, Containing the Remainder of the Designs...

Robert Adam · [1822]

Public domainThe Met
A New Book of Vases, by Jean Charles Delafosse

A New Book of Vases

Jean Charles Delafosse · 1770

Public domainThe Met
The Graces in a High Wind – a Scene taken from Nature in Kensington Gardens, by James Gillray

The Graces in a High Wind – a Scene taken from Nature in Kensington Gardens

James Gillray · May 28, 1810

Public domainThe Met
The Beautiful Night, by Joseph Vernet

The Beautiful Night

Joseph Vernet · ca. 1750–80

Public domainThe Met
"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death, by James Gillray

"More Pigs Than Teats",–or–the New Litter of Hungry Grunters, Sucking John-Bull's-Old-Sow to Death

James Gillray · March 5, 1806

Public domainThe Met
The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition, by James Gillray

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition

James Gillray · April 18, 1807

Public domainThe Met
Political-Candour;– i.e.–Coalition-Resolutions of June 14th, 1805.–Pro bono Publico–, by James Gillray

Political-Candour;– i.e.–Coalition-Resolutions of June 14th, 1805.–Pro bono Publico–

James Gillray · June 21, 1805

Public domainThe Met
The State Waggoner and John Bull.–or–the Waggon too Much for the Donkeys!, by James Gillray

The State Waggoner and John Bull.–or–the Waggon too Much for the Donkeys!

James Gillray · March 14, 1804

Public domainThe Met
Another Peep into the Play-Ground – "You're none of my child", by John Doyle

Another Peep into the Play-Ground – "You're none of my child"

John Doyle · December 31, 1838

Public domainThe Met
Connoisseurs Examining a Collection of George Morland's, by James Gillray

Connoisseurs Examining a Collection of George Morland's

James Gillray · November 16, 1807

Public domainThe Met
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill, by James Gillray

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill

James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Public domainThe Met
Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4), by Thomas Ryder I

Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)

Thomas Ryder I · first published 1794; reissued 1852

Public domainThe Met
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. 15 matched · 15 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:19 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.