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 “Carl Heinrich Hoffmann” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.
Pair of candlesticks, by Carl Heinrich Hoffmann

Pair of candlesticks

Carl Heinrich Hoffmann · ca. 1821–30

Public domainThe Met
Spiraea arguta Hoffmanns.

Spiraea arguta Hoffmanns.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1908 to 26 Jun 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt, by Georg Hoffmann

Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt

Georg Hoffmann · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Monochaetum vulcanicum Cogn.

Monochaetum vulcanicum Cogn.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/5/58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schloss Milkel in Moonlight, by Carl Gustav Carus

Schloss Milkel in Moonlight

Carl Gustav Carus · ca. 1833–35

Public domainThe Met
Miconia aeruginosa Naudin

Miconia aeruginosa Naudin

Artist not stated in the record · May 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Carl Witte, by Samuel Amsler

Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Carl Witte

Samuel Amsler · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Conostegia quadrangularis Schltdl. ex Steud.

Conostegia quadrangularis Schltdl. ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /4/55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couple Entering Building, with Attendant (from Cropsey Album), by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

Couple Entering Building, with Attendant (from Cropsey Album)

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.

Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Italian Lake Scene with Villa (from Cropsey Album), by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

Italian Lake Scene with Villa (from Cropsey Album)

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Conostegia subcrustulata (Beurl.) Triana

Conostegia subcrustulata (Beurl.) Triana

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Nut-Cracker Or The Dream of Poor Reinhold, by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann

King Nut-Cracker Or The Dream of Poor Reinhold

Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann · [1846]

Public domainThe Met
Miconia aeruginosa Naudin

Miconia aeruginosa Naudin

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /5/57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern), by Carl Heinrich Hermann

Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

Carl Heinrich Hermann · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Conostegia subcrustulata (Beurl.) Triana

Conostegia subcrustulata (Beurl.) Triana

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern), by Carl Heinrich Hermann

Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

Carl Heinrich Hermann · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Picramnia antidesma Sw. subsp. antidesma

Picramnia antidesma Sw. subsp. antidesma

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /6/57

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern), by Carl Heinrich Hermann

Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

Carl Heinrich Hermann · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Pteris muricata Rosenst.

Pteris muricata Rosenst.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern), by Carl Heinrich Hermann

Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

Carl Heinrich Hermann · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Campyloneurum xalapense Fée

Campyloneurum xalapense Fée

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern), by Carl Heinrich Hermann

Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

Carl Heinrich Hermann · 1851–53

Public domainThe Met
Pityrogramma trifoliata (L.) R.M. Tryon

Pityrogramma trifoliata (L.) R.M. Tryon

Artist not stated in the record

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. 204 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 49990 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 04:24 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.