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. 12 shown for “William Morris Hunt” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:40 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

William Morris Hunt, by Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907

William Morris Hunt

Gustav Kruell, 1843 - 1907 · 1886-87

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Morris Hunt, by Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900

William Morris Hunt

Charles Monginot, 1825 - 1900 · c. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
The Spouting Whale, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

The Spouting Whale

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Claflin, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Claflin

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girl at the Fountain, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

Girl at the Fountain

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fortune Teller, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

The Fortune Teller

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · ca. 1857-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Violet Girl, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

Violet Girl

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hurdy-Gurdy Boy, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

Hurdy-Gurdy Boy

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stag in the Moonlight, by William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879

Stag in the Moonlight

William Morris Hunt, born Brattleboro, VT 1824-died Appledore, NH 1879 · ca. 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (cows descending hillside), by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Untitled (cows descending hillside)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln's Office Suit

Abraham Lincoln's Office Suit

Artist not stated in the record

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 283739 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-31 21:40 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.