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 “Caspar Beutmüller the Elder” — 55 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 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.
Double Cup, by Caspar Beutmüller the Elder

Double Cup

Caspar Beutmüller the Elder · 1590–1600

Public domainThe Met
Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carrière

Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carrière

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pineapple cup with cover (Hanap), by Caspar Beutmüller the Younger

Pineapple cup with cover (Hanap)

Caspar Beutmüller the Younger · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Caspar Wistar, by Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836

Caspar Wistar

Pendleton Lithography Company, active c. 1825 - 1836 · 1828

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Caspar Wistar Pennock, by Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861

Dr. Caspar Wistar Pennock

Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Curiosity

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Public domainThe Met
Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit, by Johann Caspar Füssli the Elder

Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit

Johann Caspar Füssli the Elder · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Caspar Nemins, Bishop of Antwerp

Portrait of Caspar Nemins, Bishop of Antwerp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700-1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit, by Johann Caspar Füssli the Elder

Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit

Johann Caspar Füssli the Elder · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page "Calligraphia Latina," in Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nomenclatione..., by Johann Caspar Schwab, German, 1727 - after 1810

Title Page "Calligraphia Latina," in Dissertatio epistolaris de calligraphiae nomenclatione...

Johann Caspar Schwab, German, 1727 - after 1810 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ortus Sanitatis/ De herbis et plantis/ De Animalibus & reptilibus ..., by Johann Prüss the Elder

Ortus Sanitatis/ De herbis et plantis/ De Animalibus & reptilibus ...

Johann Prüss the Elder · before 1497

Public domainThe Met
Pertusaria subpupillaris Vezda

Pertusaria subpupillaris Vezda

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Magi, from an Adoration Group, by Hans Thoman

The Three Magi, from an Adoration Group

Hans Thoman · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Salix hookeriana Barratt ex Hook.

Salix hookeriana Barratt ex Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joachim and the Angel (recto); Three figures with loose draperies (verso, in upper right hand corner), by Anton Möller the Elder

Joachim and the Angel (recto); Three figures with loose draperies (verso, in upper right hand corner)

Anton Möller the Elder · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Physaria acutifolia Rydb.

Physaria acutifolia Rydb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melchior, after Three Magi series by Jacques Bellange, by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Melchior, after Three Magi series by Jacques Bellange

Matthäus Merian the Elder · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Salix hookeriana Barratt ex Hook.

Salix hookeriana Barratt ex Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1903 to 5 Jul 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Caspar, after Three Magi series by Jacques Bellange, by Matthäus Merian the Elder

Caspar, after Three Magi series by Jacques Bellange

Matthäus Merian the Elder · ca. 1615

Public domainThe Met
Morganlandschaft

Morganlandschaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Hieronymus Bosch

The Adoration of the Magi

Hieronymus Bosch · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
Pinus muricata D. Don

Pinus muricata D. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 2004

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. 15 matched · 15 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. 1186240 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 08:37 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.