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. 16 shown for “William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885” — 45 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:48 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.
Daughter of William Page (Probably Mary Page), by William Page

Daughter of William Page (Probably Mary Page)

William Page · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Shakespeare Reading, by W. Kurtz, born Germany 1833-died Far Rockaway, NY 1904

Shakespeare Reading

W. Kurtz, born Germany 1833-died Far Rockaway, NY 1904 · 1874-1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Troy from Mount Ida (No. 11 of The Hudson River Portfolio), by John Rubens Smith

Troy from Mount Ida (No. 11 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

John Rubens Smith · 1821–22

Public domainThe Met
Sarah Leaning on a Bannister, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Sarah Leaning on a Bannister

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
Charles Sumner, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Charles Sumner

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Shakespeare Reading, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Shakespeare Reading

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1873-1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Elderly Man, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Head of an Elderly Man

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(An Ecorche, front view), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

(An Ecorche, front view)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1849-1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(An Ecorche, Rear View), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

(An Ecorche, Rear View)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in Afternoon Dress, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Commanding the Waters of the Red Sea to Separate, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Moses Commanding the Waters of the Red Sea to Separate

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prometheus, by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Prometheus

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus), by William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore (Torso of Venus)

William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1857

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 55 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 09:48 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.