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 “Black Stork in a Landscape” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:31 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.
Black Stork in a Landscape

Black Stork in a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Paper tuxedo dickey with bowtie for "Waltz of the Stork" in 1982, by Unidentified

Paper tuxedo dickey with bowtie for "Waltz of the Stork" in 1982

Unidentified · ca.1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate 31, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 31, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting on black ground: landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting on black ground: landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc

On one side mandarin ducks; on the other, poems, bamboos, storks, etc

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Tapestry: landscape with deer, storks, pines, and peach-tree

Tapestry: landscape with deer, storks, pines, and peach-tree

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Plain with Old Sarum in the distance, Wiltshire, by William Turner of Oxford

Salisbury Plain with Old Sarum in the distance, Wiltshire

William Turner of Oxford · 1835–45

Public domainThe Met
Dreamers, by Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924

Dreamers

Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City 1924 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Cornelis van Poelenburch

Landscape

Cornelis van Poelenburch · 1609–67

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp

Design for an Oil Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Johan Barthold Jongkind

Landscape

Johan Barthold Jongkind · 1877

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Design for a Surtout de Table (Centerpiece)

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, by Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Grand Pa., by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Grand Pa.

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興

Landscape

Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興 · first half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Fox and the Stork, Illustration for Aesop's Fables, by Victor Wilbour

The Fox and the Stork, Illustration for Aesop's Fables

Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Liu Yu

Landscape

Liu Yu · 1680

Public domainThe Met
1er. Cahier. Ouvrage Utile à l'Art de l'Orfèvrerie, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

1er. Cahier. Ouvrage Utile à l'Art de l'Orfèvrerie

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1788–1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Edgar Degas

Landscape

Edgar Degas · ca. 1877–79

Public domainThe Met
SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

SOUPIÈRES ET CULLIÈRES

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Solanum lanzae Lebrun & Stork

Solanum lanzae Lebrun & Stork

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 24/11/79

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. 1452 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 7484331 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 20:31 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.