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. 17 shown for “Erhard Altdorfer” — 45 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 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.
Aaron, from De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers, by Erhard Altdorfer

Aaron, from De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers

Erhard Altdorfer

Public domainThe Met
Double Goblet, after Altdorfer

Double Goblet, after Altdorfer

Artist not stated in the record · 1528–1563

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Altar of Incense, from "De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers", by Erhard Altdorfer

The Altar of Incense, from "De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers"

Erhard Altdorfer

Public domainThe Met
Chimney Pot, Altdorf, Switzerland/Felsenthor, Rigi, Switzerland, by George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939

Chimney Pot, Altdorf, Switzerland/Felsenthor, Rigi, Switzerland

George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joshua, from De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers, by Erhard Altdorfer

Joshua, from De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers

Erhard Altdorfer

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Lansquenets, by Erhard Altdorfer

Two Lansquenets

Erhard Altdorfer · 1513

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson and Delilah, by Albrecht Altdorfer

Samson and Delilah

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1506

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa gisleri Puget

Rosa gisleri Puget

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa tomentosa Sm.

Rosa tomentosa Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa similata Puget ex Déségl.

Rosa similata Puget ex Déségl.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa incompta ined.

Rosa incompta ined.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa deseglisei Boreau

Rosa deseglisei Boreau

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1963

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 41 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 06:33 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.