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. 18 shown for “William Henry Hunt” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:55 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.
Fishermen's cottages at Hastings, by William Henry Hunt

Fishermen's cottages at Hastings

William Henry Hunt · 1815–25

Public domainThe Met
President Garfield and His Cabinet, by Joseph Keppler, 1 Feb 1838 - 19 Feb 1894

President Garfield and His Cabinet

Joseph Keppler, 1 Feb 1838 - 19 Feb 1894 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An apple, grapes and a hazelnut on a mossy bank, by William Henry Hunt

An apple, grapes and a hazelnut on a mossy bank

William Henry Hunt · 1830–64

Public domainThe Met
The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury, by William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt, British, 1790–1864 · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Woodcutter's Breakfast (The Faggot Gatherer's Meal), by William Henry Hunt

The Woodcutter's Breakfast (The Faggot Gatherer's Meal)

William Henry Hunt · ca. 1832–34 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Catching Rabbits, by Goupil and Company

Catching Rabbits

Goupil and Company · ca 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907

William Morris Hunt

Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907 · 1886-87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Gamekeeper, by William Henry Hunt

The Gamekeeper

William Henry Hunt · 1824–25

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900

William Morris Hunt

Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Young Model, by William Henry Hunt

Study of a Young Model

William Henry Hunt · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
William Morris Hunt, by James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896

William Morris Hunt

James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · c. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottages in an extensive landscape, by William Henry Hunt

Cottages in an extensive landscape

William Henry Hunt · late 1820s

Public domainThe Met
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835), by Sir Henry Raeburn

William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana, by William Henry Rinehart

Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana

William Henry Rinehart · 1870; carved 1874

Public domainThe Met
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. 5242 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 377749 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:55 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.