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 “Adrian Ludwig Richter” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
View of Milan, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

View of Milan

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1820–84

Public domainThe Met
Althaea pallida Waldst. et al.

Althaea pallida Waldst. et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Women and a Child on a Roof, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Three Women and a Child on a Roof

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1820–84

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus plumarius L.

Dianthus plumarius L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richter's Werke (binder's title), by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Richter's Werke (binder's title)

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus aculeatus (L.) P.M. Peterson

Sporobolus aculeatus (L.) P.M. Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alte und neue Kinderlieder, Fabeln, Sprüche und Räthsel, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Alte und neue Kinderlieder, Fabeln, Sprüche und Räthsel

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus alopecuroides (Piller & Mitterp.) P.M. Peterson

Sporobolus alopecuroides (Piller & Mitterp.) P.M. Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · Ende September 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vater Unser in Bildern, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Vater Unser in Bildern

Adrian Ludwig Richter · ca. 1856

Public domainThe Met
Bromus arvensis L.

Bromus arvensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Mill and Buildings, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Landscape with Mill and Buildings

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1820–84

Public domainThe Met
Bromus hordeaceus L.

Bromus hordeaceus L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Designs for Illustration, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Two Designs for Illustration

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1820–84

Public domainThe Met
Bromus ramosus Huds.

Bromus ramosus Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Genoveva, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Genoveva

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Tortula muralis

Tortula muralis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rübezahl, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Rübezahl

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1872

Public domainThe Met
Tortula muralis

Tortula muralis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Designs for Book Illustrations, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Three Designs for Book Illustrations

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1820–84

Public domainThe Met
Hibiscus trionum L.

Hibiscus trionum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christenfreude in Lied und Bild, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Christenfreude in Lied und Bild

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Salvia sylvestris L.

Salvia sylvestris L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter, by Loescher & Petsch

Gustav Karl Ludwig Richter

Loescher & Petsch · after 1867

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus carthusianorum var. saxigenus Schur

Dianthus carthusianorum var. saxigenus Schur

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1894

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. 65 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. 5017 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 2026-08-28 07:39 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.