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. 22 shown for “Tradecard, Crace and Son” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:05 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.
Dining Room Elevation in a Simplified Third Pompeian Style, by John Gregory Crace

Dining Room Elevation in a Simplified Third Pompeian Style

John Gregory Crace · ca. 1870–90

Public domainThe Met
Tradecard, Crace and Son

Tradecard, Crace and Son

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Window with marine motifs, design for Fishmongers’ Hall, London, by John Dibblee Crace

Window with marine motifs, design for Fishmongers’ Hall, London

John Dibblee Crace · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son

Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints, by Gideon Saint

Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints

Gideon Saint · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son, London, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Tradecard, Frederick Crace and Son, London

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1838–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Window with marine motifs, design for Fishmongers’ Hall, London, by John Dibblee Crace

Window with marine motifs, design for Fishmongers’ Hall, London

John Dibblee Crace · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Exterior, Frederick Crace and Son Establishment, 14 Wigmore Street, London, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Exterior, Frederick Crace and Son Establishment, 14 Wigmore Street, London

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1827–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rinceau and Strapwork Ornament, by John Gregory Crace

Rinceau and Strapwork Ornament

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Rocaille Ornament, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Rocaille Ornament

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca.1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling design, by John Gregory Crace

Ceiling design

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Invitation to an Opening at 14 Wigmore Street, 1839, by Crace & Son, British, 1768 – 1899

Invitation to an Opening at 14 Wigmore Street, 1839

Crace & Son, British, 1768 – 1899 · ca. 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation and Cross-Section of of Gallery Wall, by John Gregory Crace

Elevation and Cross-Section of of Gallery Wall

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by William Woolams and Co.

Sidewall

William Woolams and Co. · ca. 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Panelled Ceiling with Figures and Carving, by John Gregory Crace

Design for Panelled Ceiling with Figures and Carving

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Facade of Frederick Crace's Office, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Facade of Frederick Crace's Office

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallery Lined with Display Cases, by John Gregory Crace

Gallery Lined with Display Cases

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Letter from John Nash to Frederick Crace regarding Brighton Pavilion, by John Nash, 1752 – 1835

Letter from John Nash to Frederick Crace regarding Brighton Pavilion

John Nash, 1752 – 1835 · 1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior: Fireplace wall, by John Gregory Crace

Interior: Fireplace wall

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall, by William Woolams and Co.

Sidewall

William Woolams and Co. · 1848

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for desk and/or portfolio cabinet, by John Gregory Crace

Design for desk and/or portfolio cabinet

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Rectangular Ornaments with Strapwork, Foliage and an Eagle, by John Gregory Crace

Two Rectangular Ornaments with Strapwork, Foliage and an Eagle

John Gregory Crace · 19th century

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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1465748 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 11:05 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.