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. 14 shown for “Vanda Robert's Delight 'Ink Star'” — 42 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:26 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.
Wall Text

Wall Text

Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Vanda Robert's Delight 'Ink Star'

Vanda Robert's Delight 'Ink Star'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Songs of Innocence: Night, by William Blake

Songs of Innocence: Night

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Vanda Robert's Delight 'Ink Star'

Vanda Robert's Delight 'Ink Star'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Robert's Delight 'Blue Canal'

Vanda Robert's Delight 'Blue Canal'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Pat Delight

Vanda Pat Delight

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Pachara Delight

Vanda Pachara Delight

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Crownfox Gold 'Elegant' × V. Fuchs Midnight Delight 'Crownfox'

Vanda Crownfox Gold 'Elegant' × V. Fuchs Midnight Delight 'Crownfox'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Pepe Sanchez 'Garnet' × V. Fuchs Delight 'Sapphire'

Vanda Pepe Sanchez 'Garnet' × V. Fuchs Delight 'Sapphire'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Pachara Delight 'Isabella'

Vanda Pachara Delight 'Isabella'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Kru Chom 'Red Butterfly'

Vanda Kru Chom 'Red Butterfly'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Rothschildiana 'Robert' × V. Julia Sorenson 'Crownfox'

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Robert' × V. Julia Sorenson 'Crownfox'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Rothschildiana 'Robert' × V. Julia Sorenson 'Crownfox'

Vanda Rothschildiana 'Robert' × V. Julia Sorenson 'Crownfox'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanda Fuchs Blue 'Robert' × V. Crownfox Velvet

Vanda Fuchs Blue 'Robert' × V. Crownfox Velvet

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 226480 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-02 21:26 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.