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 “Castles in Spain” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 08:09 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.
Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco

Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco

Artist not stated in the record · 1506–15

Public domainThe Met
Castles in Spain

Castles in Spain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet (Sallet)

Helmet (Sallet)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Castles in Spain

Castles in Spain

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim, by Diego de Pesquera

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Joachim

Diego de Pesquera · 1567–68

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere

Plaque with the Journey to Emmaus and Noli Me Tangere

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1115–20

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist, by Juan Martínez Montañés

Saint John the Baptist

Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spain, by Herzl Emanuel

Spain

Herzl Emanuel · ca. 1936–37

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Livery band

Livery band

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, by Domingo Ortiz

Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Domingo Ortiz · 1797

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle (Refredador)

Bottle (Refredador)

Artist not stated in the record · first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Bird Hunting

Bird Hunting

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stove Tile with Saint John the Evangelist and Samson, by Buda Castle Workshop

Stove Tile with Saint John the Evangelist and Samson

Buda Castle Workshop · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Courtship of Anne Boleyn, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868

The Courtship of Anne Boleyn

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868 · 1846

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. 7206 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 7462344 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-07 08:09 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.