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. 15 shown for “Wise & Clarke” — 18 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 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.
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902), by Edgar Degas

James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)

Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Public domainThe Met
Execution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians, by Wise & Clarke

Execution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians

Wise & Clarke · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'

Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bird Staff Head

Bird Staff Head

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'

Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zoomorphic ornament, by Mesoamerican artist(s)

Zoomorphic ornament

Mesoamerican artist(s) · 400–100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/15

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tegg's Complete Collection of Caricatures, Relative to Mrs. Clarke and the Circumstances Arising from the Investigation of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York Before the House of Commons, by Thomas Rowlandson

Tegg's Complete Collection of Caricatures, Relative to Mrs. Clarke and the Circumstances Arising from the Investigation of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York Before the House of Commons

Thomas Rowlandson · March 27, 1809

Public domainThe Met
Oenothera caespitosa Nutt.

Oenothera caespitosa Nutt.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Manohar

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Manohar · recto: ca. 1615–20; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Castilleja angustifolia (Nutt.) G. Don

Castilleja angustifolia (Nutt.) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature), by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1890–95

Public domainThe Met
"Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Balachand

"Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Balachand · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca.1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 17:20 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.