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. 17 shown for “William Holman Hunt” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 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 Holman Hunt, by David Wilkie Wynfield

William Holman Hunt

David Wilkie Wynfield · 1863

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
Daniel Praying, by William Holman Hunt

Daniel Praying

William Holman Hunt · 1849

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
The Father's Leave-Taking, by William Holman Hunt

The Father's Leave-Taking

William Holman Hunt · 1879

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
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
D. Hunt, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

D. Hunt

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Prominent Baptist Ministers, by Albert Hoffman, active 1849 - 1854

Prominent Baptist Ministers

Albert Hoffman, active 1849 - 1854 · c. 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
On the Hill Side (Our English Coasts, 1852), from "The Art Journal", by William Holman Hunt

On the Hill Side (Our English Coasts, 1852), from "The Art Journal"

William Holman Hunt · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery", by William Holman Hunt

Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

William Holman Hunt · 1863–81

Public domainThe Met
Poems by Alfred Tennyson, by Alfred Tennyson

Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III Recording a Lion Hunt

Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III Recording a Lion Hunt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

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
Jagdhorn in G, by Jacob Schmidt

Jagdhorn in G

Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

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. 447 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 279340 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:28 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.