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. 16 shown for “William F. Stratton, 1803 - 1846” — 44 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:31 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.
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

Public domainThe Met
The Bloody Massacre, by William F. Stratton, 1803 - 1846

The Bloody Massacre

William F. Stratton, 1803 - 1846 · 1832 facsimile after 1770 original

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias, by Goya

Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias

Goya · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Mme. Ceulino, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mme. Ceulino

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846, by Nathaniel Currier

Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846

Nathaniel Currier · 1846

Public domainThe Met
J.P. Dahmer, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

J.P. Dahmer

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Matthew Sully, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Matthew Sully

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strattons, G.W.M. Nutt, and William Harrigan

Strattons, G.W.M. Nutt, and William Harrigan

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
G.W.M. Nutt, Charles and Lavinia Stratton, and William Harrigan

G.W.M. Nutt, Charles and Lavinia Stratton, and William Harrigan

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rev. F. Lennon, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Rev. F. Lennon

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
E.F. Bocquet, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

E.F. Bocquet

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
René Louis Trudeau, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

René Louis Trudeau

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphémie Fusélier de la Claire Zerban, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Euphémie Fusélier de la Claire Zerban

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mme. Marie Anne Euphrasie "Anna" Marchand Isnard, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Mme. Marie Anne Euphrasie "Anna" Marchand Isnard

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susan Beverly Randolph Taylor, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Susan Beverly Randolph Taylor

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 907215 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 22:31 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.