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. 12 shown for “Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:51 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Three Designs for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1820–1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, Probably for the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

The Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, Probably for the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, Probably for the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart (died 1788), by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, Probably for the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart (died 1788)

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral monuments, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral monuments

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Sepulchral Monument

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Sepulchral Monument (Mausoleum), by Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804

Project for a Sepulchral Monument (Mausoleum)

Mario Asprucci The Younger, Italian, 1764 – 1804 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Elevations of Sepulchral Monuments, Funeral Decorations for Louis XVI

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument to a Hero, by Unknown, Italian

Sepulchral Monument to a Hero

Unknown, Italian · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Chamber

Sepulchral Chamber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4553041 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 17:51 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.