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. 21 shown for “William Hoare” — 49 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:16 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.
William Pitt the Elder, by William Hoare

William Pitt the Elder

William Hoare · ca. 1754

Public domainThe Met
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, by Unidentified Artist

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

Unidentified Artist · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
George Frisbie Hoar, by Ernest Haskell, 1876 - 1925

George Frisbie Hoar

Ernest Haskell, 1876 - 1925 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Open-Ring Brooch

Open-Ring Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 800s

Public domainThe Met
Ebenezer R. Hoar, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Ebenezer R. Hoar

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Songs of Experience: Earth's Answer, by William Blake

Songs of Experience: Earth's Answer

William Blake · [1794] printed ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895), by Unknown

Portrait of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895)

Unknown · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré", by Mason Jackson

Portraits des premiers fondateurs de l'Académie Anglaise des Beaux-Arts (Portraits of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, London), from "L'Univers Illustré"

Mason Jackson · October 2, 1862

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904), by Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague)

Portrait of George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904)

Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague) · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medea Rejuvenating Aeson, by Corrado Giaquinto

Medea Rejuvenating Aeson

Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895), by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries

Portrait of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895)

Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie), by Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant)

Three Figures in an Interior (Un Envoi de Serbie)

Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Gavia adamsii

Gavia adamsii

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Gavia stellata

Gavia stellata

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Warwick Castle, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Warwick Castle

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Enallagma hageni

Enallagma hageni

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pachydiplax longipennis

Pachydiplax longipennis

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enallagma geminatum

Enallagma geminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enallagma geminatum

Enallagma geminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1954

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263199 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 2026-09-03 05:16 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.