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 “William Blake” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 10:07 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.
Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10), by William Blake

Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)

William Blake · ca. 1803–5

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of William Phipps Blake (1826-1910), by Bradley & Rulofson

Portrait of William Phipps Blake (1826-1910)

Bradley & Rulofson · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt), by William Blake

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)

William Blake · 1806

Public domainThe Met
Microspermum repens (Blake) L.O. Williams

Microspermum repens (Blake) L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-portrait, aged 21, by Sir William Blake Richmond

Self-portrait, aged 21

Sir William Blake Richmond · 1863

Public domainThe Met
Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert", by U.S. War Department

Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"

U.S. War Department · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Angel Appearing to Zacharias, by William Blake

The Angel Appearing to Zacharias

William Blake · 1799–1800

Public domainThe Met
Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks, by Tucker, Beverley

Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks

Tucker, Beverley · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job's Sacrifice, by William Blake

Job's Sacrifice

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees

Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation, by William Blake

The Creation

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Chloris truncata

Chloris truncata

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job's Despair, by William Blake

Job's Despair

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis setifolia Nees

Eragrostis setifolia Nees

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job's Comforters, by William Blake

Job's Comforters

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Ehrharta melicoides Thunb.

Ehrharta melicoides Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece to Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Great Albion, by William Blake

Frontispiece to Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Great Albion

William Blake · [ca. 1804–20] (?)

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria breviglumis (Domin) Henr.

Digitaria breviglumis (Domin) Henr.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job's Evil Dreams, by William Blake

Job's Evil Dreams

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Callistemon shiressii Blakely

Callistemon shiressii Blakely

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Behemoth and Leviathan, by William Blake

Behemoth and Leviathan

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Callistemon shiressii Blakely

Callistemon shiressii Blakely

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Job accepting Charity, by William Blake

Job accepting Charity

William Blake · 1825–26

Public domainThe Met
Parahebe derwentiana (Andrews) B.G. Briggs & Ehrend.

Parahebe derwentiana (Andrews) B.G. Briggs & Ehrend.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1899

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. 214 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 286767 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-26 10:07 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.