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. 19 shown for “White, Peregrine” — 47 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 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.
Chair-table

Chair-table

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

Public domainThe Met
Surveyor's Stakes, by White, Peregrine

Surveyor's Stakes

White, Peregrine · 1775-1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650), by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Public domainThe Met
Surveyor's Compass, by White, Peregrine

Surveyor's Compass

White, Peregrine

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Our Lady of Mercy, called “The Pilgrim of Quito”, by Unknown

Our Lady of Mercy, called “The Pilgrim of Quito”

Unknown · ca. 1730–40

Public domainThe Met
Peregrinator biannulipes

Peregrinator biannulipes

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Great Hornbill", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Mansur

"Great Hornbill", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Mansur · recto: ca. 1540; verso: ca. 1615–20

Public domainThe Met
Peregrinator biannulipes

Peregrinator biannulipes

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Laubierina peregrinator

Laubierina peregrinator

Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Histampica peregrinator

Histampica peregrinator

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Feb 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Amphioplus peregrinator

Amphioplus peregrinator

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Feb 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elymus repens (L.) Gould

Elymus repens (L.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Gentleman, by Peregrine F. Cooper, active 1840-1890

Portrait of a Gentleman

Peregrine F. Cooper, active 1840-1890 · 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Danthonia sp.

Danthonia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Matthew Maury, by Peregrine F. Cooper, active 1840-1890

Matthew Maury

Peregrine F. Cooper, active 1840-1890 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2000

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 109507 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 08:58 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.