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. 22 shown for “William E. Tucker, 1801 - 1857” — 51 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:32 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.
The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657), by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Franklin Pierce, by William E. Tucker, 1801 - 1857

Franklin Pierce

William E. Tucker, 1801 - 1857 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
William Henry Harrison, by John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897

William Henry Harrison

John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1841

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act, by Louis Maurer

"The Impending Crisis" – Or Caught in the Act

Louis Maurer · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei

Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The True Peace Commissioners, by Currier & Ives

The True Peace Commissioners

Currier & Ives · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei

Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1), by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1)

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · November , 1857

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin, by Bartolomeo Vivarini

The Death of the Virgin

Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haystacks: Autumn, by Jean-François Millet

Haystacks: Autumn

Jean-François Millet · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, by Edouard Manet

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada

Edouard Manet · 1862

Public domainThe Met
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jun 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ladona julia

Ladona julia

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 2006

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1360539 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-08 19:32 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.