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. 16 shown for “EL ACID H” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:24 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.
View of Toledo, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

View of Toledo

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Public domainThe Met
EL ACID H

EL ACID H

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Xanthoparmelia nigroweberi T.H. Nash & Elix

Xanthoparmelia nigroweberi T.H. Nash & Elix

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1605–10

Public domainThe Met
Sulphuric Acid Plant (Model)

Sulphuric Acid Plant (Model)

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Digitaria serotina (Walter) Michx.

Digitaria serotina (Walter) Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Blind, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Christ Healing the Blind

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands

Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of an Old Man, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Portrait of an Old Man

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1595–1600

Public domainThe Met
Tell el-Yahudiya-ware juglet

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware juglet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tell el-Yahudiya juglet

Tell el-Yahudiya juglet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tell el-Yahudiya-ware jar

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tell el-Yahudiya-ware jar

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware jar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–1600 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tell el-Yahudiya-ware fish vessel

Tell el-Yahudiya-ware fish vessel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

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. 3527 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. 1040185 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 01:24 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.