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 “Abraham de Bruyn” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 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.
Abraham, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

Abraham

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1408–10

Public domainThe Met
Koeleria pyramidata subsp. arenaria (Dumort.) Castrov. & Quintanar

Koeleria pyramidata subsp. arenaria (Dumort.) Castrov. & Quintanar

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Titus Vespasianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Titus Vespasianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Trichoglossus haematodus intermedius

Trichoglossus haematodus intermedius

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Nov 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
C. Julius Caesar, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

C. Julius Caesar, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/4/66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiberius Claudius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Tiberius Claudius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/4/66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flavius Vestasianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Flavius Vestasianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Claudius Tiberius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Claudius Tiberius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Anthony Berger, active 1860s

Abraham Lincoln

Anthony Berger, active 1860s · February 9, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Octavius Caesar Augustus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Octavius Caesar Augustus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Anthony Berger, active 1860s

Abraham Lincoln

Anthony Berger, active 1860s · February 9, 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Domitius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Domitius Nero, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Abraham Lincoln

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
M. Silvius Otho, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

M. Silvius Otho, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Le Mere

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Le Mere · April 17, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sergius Galba, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Sergius Galba, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Abraham Lincoln

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · February 24, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caius Caesar Galigula, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Caius Caesar Galigula, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882

Abraham Lincoln

Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · February 24, 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Domitianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback", by Abraham de Bruyn

Domitianus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

Abraham de Bruyn · ca. 1565–87

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Lincoln, by Anthony Berger, active 1860s

Abraham Lincoln

Anthony Berger, active 1860s · February 9, 1864

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. 743 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 616729 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-29 11:36 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.