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

Archives queried 2026-08-27 12:37 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.
General Washington, by Valentine Green

General Washington

Valentine Green · January 15, 1781

Public domainThe Met
Samuel Cooper, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

Samuel Cooper

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1784

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump, by Valentine Green

A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump

Valentine Green · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Henry Laurens, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

Henry Laurens

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Washington, by Valentine Green

General Washington

Valentine Green · January 15, 1781

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

George Washington

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Washington, by Valentine Green

General Washington

Valentine Green · January 15, 1781

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

George Washington

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Golden Age, by Valentine Green

The Golden Age

Valentine Green · June 4, 1777

Public domainThe Met
Nathanael Greene, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

Nathanael Greene

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Valentine Green

Madonna and Child

Valentine Green · December 3, 1774

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813

George Washington

Valentine Green, 1739 - 1813 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland (1742-1817), by Green, Valentine 1739-1813

Portrait of Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland (1742-1817)

Green, Valentine 1739-1813 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · mid 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Valentine

Valentine

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Kate Greenaway

Valentine

Kate Greenaway · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Chionanthus oblanceolatus (B.L. Rob.) P.S. Green

Chionanthus oblanceolatus (B.L. Rob.) P.S. Green

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1936 to Aug 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Viola caricetorum Greene ex Farw.

Viola caricetorum Greene ex Farw.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Argemone gracilenta Greene

Argemone gracilenta Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Esther Howland

Valentine

Esther Howland · 1847–70

Public domainThe Met
Phyla betulifolia (Kunth) Greene

Phyla betulifolia (Kunth) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1923

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. 100 matched · 24 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. 96059 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-27 12:37 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.