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 “Toad” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:49 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.
Toad

Toad

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Engraving of lizard species "Phrynosoma regale, Doliosaurus m'callii", by Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Engraving of lizard species "Phrynosoma regale, Doliosaurus m'callii"

Baird, Spencer Fullerton · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toad Amuleet

Toad Amuleet

Artist not stated in the record · 664–380 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toad Paperweight

Toad Paperweight

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toad and Flowers, by Hokusai School

Toad and Flowers

Hokusai School · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flower and Toad, by Zhang Xiong

Flower and Toad

Zhang Xiong

Public domainThe Met
Texas Horned Lizard

Texas Horned Lizard

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toad with a Young Toad on its Back

Toad with a Young Toad on its Back

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Immortal Liu Hai astride a toad

Immortal Liu Hai astride a toad

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow

Thomas Rowlandson · November 27, 1813

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow, by Thomas Rowlandson

A Corsican Toad Under a Harrow

Thomas Rowlandson · November 27, 1813

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma hernandesi

Phrynosoma hernandesi

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma coronatum frontale

Phrynosoma coronatum frontale

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillii

Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillii

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Texas Horned Lizard

Texas Horned Lizard

Artist not stated in the record

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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 668 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-28 12:49 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.