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 Henry Pyne” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:43 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 Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. II, by William Henry Pyne

The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. II

William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

Public domainThe Met
Percy Rivington Pyne, II, by Alvin Fred Bradley, 1862 - 1948?

Percy Rivington Pyne, II

Alvin Fred Bradley, 1862 - 1948? · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. I, by William Henry Pyne

The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. I

William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

Public domainThe Met
End of Winter, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

End of Winter

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · after 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835), by Sir Henry Raeburn

William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Physalis macrosperma Pyne et al.

Physalis macrosperma Pyne et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket bottle, by American Flint Glass Manufactory

Pocket bottle

American Flint Glass Manufactory · 1769–74

Public domainThe Met
Hemlock Pool, by John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902

Hemlock Pool

John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society, by T. Dixon

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

T. Dixon · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An English Country Performance of Macbeth, by J. Wright

An English Country Performance of Macbeth

J. Wright · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wrack, by William Henry Fox Talbot

Wrack

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], by William Henry Fox Talbot

[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]

William Henry Fox Talbot · probably 1835

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side Chair, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Side Chair

Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Carlo Cignani

Charity

Carlo Cignani · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clytie, by William Henry Rinehart

Clytie

William Henry Rinehart · 1869–70; carved 1872

Public domainThe Met
View of the Roman Forum, With the Arch of Severus in the Foreground, by William Hadfield, British

View of the Roman Forum, With the Arch of Severus in the Foreground

William Hadfield, British · 1770–90

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. 4604 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 362346 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 23:43 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.