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. 20 shown for “William Dunlap” — 50 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 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.
Self-portrait, by William Dunlap

Self-portrait

William Dunlap · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
William Dunlap self-portrait, by William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839

William Dunlap self-portrait

William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · c. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. John Adams Conant, by William Dunlap

Mrs. John Adams Conant

William Dunlap · 1829

Public domainThe Met
William Dunlap, by Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918

William Dunlap

Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John Adams Conant, by William Dunlap

John Adams Conant

William Dunlap · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Elizabeth Chandler Putnam, by William Dunlap, born Perth Amboy, NJ 1766-died New York City 1839

Elizabeth Chandler Putnam

William Dunlap, born Perth Amboy, NJ 1766-died New York City 1839 · ca. 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery, by James Sharples

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery

James Sharples · 1798

Public domainThe Met
Elizabeth Linn Brown, by William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839

Elizabeth Linn Brown

William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · c. 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chest-on-chest

Chest-on-chest

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Joel Barlow, by William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839

Joel Barlow

William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by David Teniers the Younger

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

David Teniers the Younger · 1650s

Public domainThe Met
Charles Brockden Brown, by William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839

Charles Brockden Brown

William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Public domainThe Met
Richard Channing Moore, by Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831

Richard Channing Moore

Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831 · c. 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ariadne, by Asher Brown Durand

Ariadne

Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Public domainThe Met
Mrs. Nathaniel Parkinson, by Unidentified

Mrs. Nathaniel Parkinson

Unidentified · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Portrait of a Woman

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · ca. 1825-1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sommera dunlapii L.O. Williams

Sommera dunlapii L.O. Williams

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Franklin Pierce and William R. King, by Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888

Franklin Pierce and William R. King

Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
James Dunlap, by Unidentified Artist

James Dunlap

Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263433 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 21:08 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.