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. 24 shown for “F. Wagner” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:22 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.
In Honor of King Friedrich William of Wurtemburg, Known as William I (1816–64), by F. Wagner

In Honor of King Friedrich William of Wurtemburg, Known as William I (1816–64)

F. Wagner · 1826

Public domainThe Met
Arisaema sp.

Arisaema sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate, by Joseph Wagner

Plate

Joseph Wagner · 1750–70

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris x triploidea Wherry

Dryopteris x triploidea Wherry

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountainous landscape with herdsmen and cows, by Joseph Wagner

Mountainous landscape with herdsmen and cows

Joseph Wagner · ca. 1725–80

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris clintoniana (D.C. Eaton) Dowell

Dryopteris clintoniana (D.C. Eaton) Dowell

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50), by Hans Wagner the Elder

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)

Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris x dowellii (Farw.) Wherry

Dryopteris x dowellii (Farw.) Wherry

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with tabernacle frames

Diptych with tabernacle frames

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris x mickelii J.H. Peck

Dryopteris x mickelii J.H. Peck

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Primavera, a group of women collecting flowers and making crowns from them, by Giovanni Volpato

Primavera, a group of women collecting flowers and making crowns from them

Giovanni Volpato · ca. 1764

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray

Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape with shepherds, houses and a tower in the distance, by Fabio Berardi

Landscape with shepherds, houses and a tower in the distance

Fabio Berardi · 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris x dowellii (Farw.) Wherry

Dryopteris x dowellii (Farw.) Wherry

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciatory Angel (left wing); Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist and (above) the Virgin Annunciate (right wing), by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciatory Angel (left wing); Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist and (above) the Virgin Annunciate (right wing)

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) A. Gray x D. marginalis (L.) A. Gray

Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) A. Gray x D. marginalis (L.) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elements from a Necklace

Elements from a Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Stenogramma interruptum

Stenogramma interruptum

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis honoluluensis

Ctenitis honoluluensis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, by Alfred Sisley

View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant

Alfred Sisley · 1876

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis honoluluensis

Ctenitis honoluluensis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Ctenitis honoluluensis

Ctenitis honoluluensis

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1987

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. 58 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 663404 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 01:22 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.