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 “Bookbinding with Animals in a Landscape” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:47 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.
Bookbinding with Animals in a Landscape

Bookbinding with Animals in a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Certificate of Membership in the Book-binder's Guild, by I E W, active 1750s

Certificate of Membership in the Book-binder's Guild

I E W, active 1750s · 1750

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

Landscape

Edgar Degas · 1892

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Arming Press, by Gough, John

Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Arming Press

Gough, John · ca 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Post

A Brazilian Landscape

Frans Post · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for a Machine for Shaping and Finishing the Backs of Books, by Sanborn, G. H.

Patent Model for a Machine for Shaping and Finishing the Backs of Books

Sanborn, G. H. · ca 1859

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

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with Figures and Farm Animals

Landscape with Figures and Farm Animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700-1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

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

Public domainThe Met
Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1595 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Finishing Roll, by Skelton, Daniel J.

Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Finishing Roll

Skelton, Daniel J. · ca 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flap of a Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab)

Flap of a Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Standing Press, by Pelletreau, Maltby K.

Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Standing Press

Pelletreau, Maltby K. · ca 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie with Figures in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Chinoiserie with Figures in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1738-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

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

Public domainThe Met
Valley with McAllister's Saw Mill, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Valley with McAllister's Saw Mill, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet, by Johan Arndts

Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet

Johan Arndts · 1696

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Roll, by Feely, John

Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Roll

Feely, John · ca 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · December 7, 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookbinding Element

Bookbinding Element

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Seated Couple in a Landscape, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

A Seated Couple in a Landscape

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

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. 12100 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. 7484444 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-04 02:47 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.