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 Young Ottley” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:57 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.
Anche a me, Madre mia! (Me too, mother!), by William Young Ottley

Anche a me, Madre mia! (Me too, mother!)

William Young Ottley · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · May 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vision of the True Cross appearing to St. Helen, by William Young Ottley

Vision of the True Cross appearing to St. Helen

William Young Ottley · 1795–1836

Public domainThe Met
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · May 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi, by William Young Ottley

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley · 1795–1836

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya mearnsii (Britton) D.D. Sokoloff x O. wrightii (A. Gray) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya mearnsii (Britton) D.D. Sokoloff x O. wrightii (A. Gray) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mother and children [Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera, from Hesiod's "Theogony"], by William Young Ottley

Mother and children [Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera, from Hesiod's "Theogony"]

William Young Ottley · 1803–28

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Husband: First Marketing, by Lilly Martin Spencer

Young Husband: First Marketing

Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius

Bernardo Daddi · ca. 1338–40

Public domainThe Met
Lotus scoparius (Torr. & A. Gray) Ottley

Lotus scoparius (Torr. & A. Gray) Ottley

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 2018

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Angels, by Jacopo di Cione

Six Angels

Jacopo di Cione · ca. 1365

Public domainThe Met
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/3/26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Nudes Seen from Below (recto); Male Figure with Upraised Arm (verso), by Pomarancio (Cristoforo Roncalli)

Two Nudes Seen from Below (recto); Male Figure with Upraised Arm (verso)

Pomarancio (Cristoforo Roncalli) · 1580–82

Public domainThe Met
Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cottage, by François Boucher

A Cottage

François Boucher · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1909

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. 1125 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 278943 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 22:57 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.