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 “Carl Gottlieb Peschel” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father, by Carl Gottlieb Peschel

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Carl Gottlieb Peschel · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Tobias Takes Leave of his Father, by Ferdinand Anton Krüger

Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

Ferdinand Anton Krüger · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Carl Philipp Glume, the Artist's Brother, by Johann Gottlieb Glume

Carl Philipp Glume, the Artist's Brother

Johann Gottlieb Glume · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an old man with a beard, by Carl Gottlieb Rasp

Portrait of an old man with a beard

Carl Gottlieb Rasp · ca. 1767–1807

Public domainThe Met
Plate 2, from "Neu inventierte Vasi auf die neueste manier", by Johann Gottlieb Thelot

Plate 2, from "Neu inventierte Vasi auf die neueste manier"

Johann Gottlieb Thelot · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin with arms crossed over her chest looking at the sleeping infant Christ, in an oval frame, after Reni, by Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger

The Virgin with arms crossed over her chest looking at the sleeping infant Christ, in an oval frame, after Reni

Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger · 1770–1834

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 4 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke", by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 4 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke"

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 1 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke", by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 1 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke"

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 3 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke", by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 3 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke"

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 2 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke", by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for the Base of a Crucifix, plate 2 from "Neü inventierte Crucifix Stöcke"

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars, by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for an Altar, plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar, plate 4 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars, by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot

Design for an Altar, plate 4 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Altars

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
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. 45 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:21 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.