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 “W. T. Copeland and Sons” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:11 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.
Bowl, by W. T. Copeland and Sons

Bowl

W. T. Copeland and Sons · 1870–1900

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by W. T. Copeland & Sons, English, 1847 – 1970

Plate

W. T. Copeland & Sons, English, 1847 – 1970 · ca. 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier table, by Joseph B. Barry and Son

Pier table

Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann

Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann

Artist not stated in the record · February 18, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph T. Copeland

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Anthony van Dyck

Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of John H. Copeland in an embossed leather case

Ambrotype of John H. Copeland in an embossed leather case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case

Ambrotype of Ann Hurst Copeland in an embossed leather case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Galium bolanderi A. Gray

Galium bolanderi A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, by Albrecht Dürer

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519

Public domainThe Met
Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore

Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1938

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. 593 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. 2512661 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-05 00:11 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.