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. 21 shown for “Engaged Double Capital” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 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.
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Double Engagement

Le Double Engagement

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Elevation for a Rusticated Gateway with Tuscan Columns

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital, Double Engaged

Capital, Double Engaged

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel fragment

Panel fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Confederate 2c Andrew Jackson on semi-official imprinted envelope

Confederate 2c Andrew Jackson on semi-official imprinted envelope

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Double Door and Overdoor, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Captial

Engaged Double Captial

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design of an Alcove with Windows, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design of an Alcove with Windows

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged capital

Engaged capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Design for a Door

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation and Plan of a House Façade, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elevation and Plan of a House Façade

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780-1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged capital

Engaged capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Elévation d'une Bibliothéque avec Pilastres d'Ordre Corinthien, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Elévation d'une Bibliothéque avec Pilastres d'Ordre Corinthien

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

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. 612 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 42174 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 03:07 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.