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. 12 shown for “Apotheosis of Franklin” — 40 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:40 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · 1780s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of Franklin

Apotheosis of Franklin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of a Saint, by Corrado Giaquinto, Italian, 1703 - 1765

Apotheosis of a Saint

Corrado Giaquinto, Italian, 1703 - 1765 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of Saint Francis

Apotheosis of Saint Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apotheosis of a Female Saint, by Giacomo Farelli, Italian, 1624 - 1706

Apotheosis of a Female Saint

Giacomo Farelli, Italian, 1624 - 1706 · before 1706

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Teams of Horses, fragment of an Advanced Sketch Model for the Apotheosis of Democracy Pediment, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol Building, by Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925

Two Teams of Horses, fragment of an Advanced Sketch Model for the Apotheosis of Democracy Pediment, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol Building

Paul Wayland Bartlett, born New Haven, CT 1865-died Paris, France 1925 · modeled 1909-1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Ceiling of the Salon of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Design for the Ceiling of the Salon of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cupid and Psyche, by Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815

Cupid and Psyche

Gorgerat Frères et Cie., Nantes, France, 1783–1815 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2871503 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 22:40 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.