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 “Two Camels Fighting” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:57 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.
Two Camels Fighting

Two Camels Fighting

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
John Camel Heenan, (Benicia Boy.) by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, circa 1859, by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg

John Camel Heenan, (Benicia Boy.) by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, circa 1859

E.B. and E.C. Kellogg · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ampulla (Flask) of Saint Menas

Ampulla (Flask) of Saint Menas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 610–50

Public domainThe Met
Sopwith F.1 Camel

Sopwith F.1 Camel

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ostracon with fighting bulls

Ostracon with fighting bulls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor, by Antoine-Louis Barye

Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor

Antoine-Louis Barye · modeled 1849, cast ca. 1867

Public domainThe Met
Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Spad XIII "Smith IV", by SPAD (Societe Anonyme Pour l'Aviation et ses Derives)

Spad XIII "Smith IV"

SPAD (Societe Anonyme Pour l'Aviation et ses Derives) · 1917-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Two Fighting Lions

Dish with Two Fighting Lions

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 19, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Camels, by John Frederick Lewis

Two Camels

John Frederick Lewis · ca. 1843

Public domainThe Met
Desert Landscape with Figure Sketches, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Desert Landscape with Figure Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Camels, by Anonymous, French, 19th century

Two Camels

Anonymous, French, 19th century · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Oasis at Kadesh Barnea, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Oasis at Kadesh Barnea, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 22, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two camels

Two camels

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Camel Studies, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camel Studies, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 2, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February or March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion

Capital with Samson and an Attendant Fighting a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1175–1200

Public domainThe Met
Camel and Figure Studies, Palestine or Syria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Camel and Figure Studies, Palestine or Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 22, 1868

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. 363 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 52866 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-26 19:57 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.