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 “Webb” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:21 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.
Eccleston Medal, by Thomas Webb

Eccleston Medal

Thomas Webb · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal, by Webb

Medal

Webb · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz

Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Backgammon Players, by Philip Webb

The Backgammon Players

Philip Webb · 1861

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger, by Webb

In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger

Webb · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1957

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
M.T. Webb, by Unknown Artist

M.T. Webb

Unknown Artist · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed goblet with bulging bowl, by Philip Webb

Footed goblet with bulging bowl

Philip Webb · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spoon, by Edward Webb

Spoon

Edward Webb · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1915 to 30 Dec 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red and White Poppies, by Tosa Mitsumochi

Red and White Poppies

Tosa Mitsumochi · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tagasode (“Whose Sleeves?”)

Tagasode (“Whose Sleeves?”)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Memory of Lord Nelson, by Jean-Pierre Droz

In Memory of Lord Nelson

Jean-Pierre Droz · 1805

Public domainThe Met
Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz

Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Telegrapher], by E. Webb's Union Gallery

[Telegrapher]

E. Webb's Union Gallery · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten

Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten

Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scent Bottle, by Thomas Webb & Sons

Scent Bottle

Thomas Webb & Sons · 1870–1900

Public domainThe Met
Hibiscus dictyocarpus Hochst. ex Webb

Hibiscus dictyocarpus Hochst. ex Webb

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1839

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. 404 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3884 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 01:21 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.