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 “English Grammar” — 58 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 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.
Allegorical Figure Representing Grammar, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Grammar

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
English Grammar

English Grammar

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nan va Halva (Breads and Sweets), by Muhammad Baha' al-Din al-'Amili

Nan va Halva (Breads and Sweets)

Muhammad Baha' al-Din al-'Amili · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
The Institutes of English Grammar

The Institutes of English Grammar

Artist not stated in the record · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child Attended by Angels, by Filippino Lippi

Virgin and Child Attended by Angels

Filippino Lippi · 1457/58–1504

Public domainThe Met
Vignettes for a Latin Grammar

Vignettes for a Latin Grammar

Artist not stated in the record · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
The English Reader, by Murray, Lindley

The English Reader

Murray, Lindley

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Arithmetic, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Arithmetic

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
A Grammar of Geography

A Grammar of Geography

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Grammar School, Huntingdon, by Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940

Grammar School, Huntingdon

Ernest Clifford Peixotto, American, 1869–1940 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing America, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing America

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Public domainThe Met
The New Geographical Grammar

The New Geographical Grammar

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curtain of "Sultan" textile, by Owen Jones

Curtain of "Sultan" textile

Owen Jones · 1870–74

Public domainThe Met
Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jan 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Africa, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Africa

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure Representing Asia, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Asia

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure Representing Europe, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Europe

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figures Representing Virtue and Abundance, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figures Representing Virtue and Abundance

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 5894 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:53 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.