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 “Thompson Gallery” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:45 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.
[Charles Calverley], by Thompson Gallery

[Charles Calverley]

Thompson Gallery · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met
George Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

George Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Elliott and Palmer ?], by Thompson Gallery

[Elliott and Palmer ?]

Thompson Gallery · 1864–66

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alfred Thompson Gobert, by Louis-Rémy Robert

Alfred Thompson Gobert

Louis-Rémy Robert · 1849–55

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Thompson, by Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824?

Benjamin Thompson

Edward C. Trenchard, 1777 - 1824? · 1798

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, by Cephas Giovanni Thompson

Spring

Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Public domainThe Met
Waddy Thompson, by Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887

Waddy Thompson

Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Satyr, British Museum, by Stephen Thompson

Satyr, British Museum

Stephen Thompson · 1869–72

Public domainThe Met
James Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

James Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Flowers, by Jerome B. Thompson

Summer Flowers

Jerome B. Thompson · 1859

Public domainThe Met
P. Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

P. Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
French Machinery, by Charles Thurston Thompson

French Machinery

Charles Thurston Thompson · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Captain Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Captain Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diana and Cupid, by Pompeo Batoni

Diana and Cupid

Pompeo Batoni · 1761

Public domainThe Met
Og. Thompson, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Og. Thompson

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Davida Johnson Clark, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Davida Johnson Clark

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1886

Public domainThe Met
Philip Rootes Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Philip Rootes Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Weston Thompson, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Thomas Weston Thompson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Male Ruler (?)

Standing Male Ruler (?)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
George Thompson

George Thompson

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther, by François Duquesnoy

Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther

François Duquesnoy · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
George Thompson

George Thompson

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

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. 270 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 72720 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 11:45 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.