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 “Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:11 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.
Venetian Scene, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Venetian Scene

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Canal in Venice, by Unidentified (Italian)

Canal in Venice

Unidentified (Italian) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Allegory

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Frame

Frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with Ruins, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Landscape with Ruins

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Venetian Senator, by Unidentified (Italian)

A Venetian Senator

Unidentified (Italian) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nativity, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Nativity

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Model of a Venetian Palazzo

Model of a Venetian Palazzo

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 12, Femina Veneta (Venetian Woman), Diversarum Nationum Ornatus Cum Suis Iconibus, by Alessandro Fabri, Italian, active late 16th century

Plate 12, Femina Veneta (Venetian Woman), Diversarum Nationum Ornatus Cum Suis Iconibus

Alessandro Fabri, Italian, active late 16th century · 1593

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flagellation, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Flagellation

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Mourning sampler

Mourning sampler

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Execution, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

An Execution

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Peep-Show Print: Venice

Peep-Show Print: Venice

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Mirror or Box, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Design for Mirror or Box

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 1740–70

Public domainThe Met
Venice and the Silk Road cover

Venice and the Silk Road cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1390

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartouche with a Mask, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Cartouche with a Mask

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymphs Adorning the Statue of a Goddess (recto); River God with Three Nymphs (verso), by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Nymphs Adorning the Statue of a Goddess (recto); River God with Three Nymphs (verso)

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Venetian Man, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Venetian Man

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · 1863?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Double Cartouche flanked by Satyrs (Frontispiece?), by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Design for a Double Cartouche flanked by Satyrs (Frontispiece?)

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Monkey Playing a Violin

Monkey Playing a Violin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Houses by a River, by Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

Houses by a River

Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century · 1703–66

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–early 18th century

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. 1258 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 45711 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-05 01:11 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.