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. 13 shown for “Cajetanus Urbinas” — 41 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:31 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.
Head of Christ with crown of thorns, in an oval frame with a ribbon above and banderole below, after Reni, by Cajetanus Urbinas

Head of Christ with crown of thorns, in an oval frame with a ribbon above and banderole below, after Reni

Cajetanus Urbinas · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Prionosciadium mexicanum var. acuminatum B.L. Rob. in Urbina

Prionosciadium mexicanum var. acuminatum B.L. Rob. in Urbina

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prionosciadium mexicanum var. acuminatum B.L. Rob. in Urbina

Prionosciadium mexicanum var. acuminatum B.L. Rob. in Urbina

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arracacia trifida J.M. Coult. & Rose in Urbina

Arracacia trifida J.M. Coult. & Rose in Urbina

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr.

Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J.F. Macbr.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
cf. Werneria sp.

cf. Werneria sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angiosperms

Angiosperms

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angiosperms

Angiosperms

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Asthenes flammulata flammulata

Asthenes flammulata flammulata

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Verbena laciniata (L.) Briq.

Verbena laciniata (L.) Briq.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis lurida J. Presl

Eragrostis lurida J. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa pauciflora Roem. & Schult.

Poa pauciflora Roem. & Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poa cucullata Hack.

Poa cucullata Hack.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1923

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 295 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 2026-09-01 09:31 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.