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. 20 shown for “Christoph Bockstorffer” — 49 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:35 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.
Frieze with children, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Frieze with children

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Christopher Columbus Langdell, by Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946

Christopher Columbus Langdell

Otto J. Schneider, 1875 - 1946 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with children, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Frieze with children

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Kit Carson, by Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894

Kit Carson

Charles DeForest Fredricks, 11 Dec 1823 - 25 May 1894 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lansquenets and ladies, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Lansquenets and ladies

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Christopher Grant Champlin, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Christopher Grant Champlin

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The pardoning of a criminal, by Christoph Bockstorffer

The pardoning of a criminal

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Christopher Columbus, by Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831

Christopher Columbus

Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831 · 1816

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christopher Columbus, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Christopher Columbus

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David playing the harp before Saul, by Christoph Bockstorffer

David playing the harp before Saul

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pride goeth before a fall, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Pride goeth before a fall

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with children, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Frieze with children

Christoph Bockstorffer · 1531

Public domainThe Met
Two Studies of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus), by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Two Studies of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I, by Christoph Bockstorffer

Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I

Christoph Bockstorffer · ca. 1531

Public domainThe Met
Christopher Columbus, by Unidentified Artist

Christopher Columbus

Unidentified Artist · 1584

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rush C. Hawkins

Rush C. Hawkins

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rush C. Hawkins

Rush C. Hawkins

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rush C. Hawkins

Rush C. Hawkins

Artist not stated in the record · 1861

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6911 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 09:35 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.