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. 18 shown for “Varley, Thomas P” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:08 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.
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Philip Reese Uhler (1835-1913), by Varley, Thomas P

Portrait of Philip Reese Uhler (1835-1913)

Varley, Thomas P · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Young Peasant Women, by Camille Pissarro

Two Young Peasant Women

Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Public domainThe Met
Small Landscape (Dutch), by John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842

Small Landscape (Dutch)

John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, by Camille Pissarro

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

Camille Pissarro · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Landscape, by John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842

Landscape

John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Pemphigus sp.

Pemphigus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Pemphigus sp.

Pemphigus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Grevillea patentiloba F. Muell.

Grevillea patentiloba F. Muell.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1897

Public domainThe Met
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers, by Camille Pissarro

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Public domainThe Met
Bamborough Castle from the Northeast, with Holy Island in the Distance, Northumberland, by John Varley

Bamborough Castle from the Northeast, with Holy Island in the Distance, Northumberland

John Varley · 1827

Public domainThe Met
On the Thames at Hammersmith, by John Varley

On the Thames at Hammersmith

John Varley · ca. 1836

Public domainThe Met
Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan, by Ibrahim Sultan

Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan

Ibrahim Sultan · dated 830 AH/1427 CE

Public domainThe Met
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

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. 5009 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. 648215 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:08 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.