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. 16 shown for “Female musician with harp” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:38 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.
Female musician with harp

Female musician with harp

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians, by Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659

Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians

Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harp

Harp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Card with David and His Harp

Card with David and His Harp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female musician with harp

Female musician with harp

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Six of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Six of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harp

Harp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580–1295 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Irish Cottage, by Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948

Irish Cottage

Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948 · ca. 1935-1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arched Harp (shoulder harp)

Arched Harp (shoulder harp)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female musician

Female musician

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Female musician

Female musician

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Marble seated harp player

Marble seated harp player

Artist not stated in the record · 2800–2700 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female musician with lute

Female musician with lute

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Musicians, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Musicians

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait with a Harp, by Rose Adélaïde Ducreux

Self-Portrait with a Harp

Rose Adélaïde Ducreux · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Bow harp

Bow harp

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

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. 178 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 781814 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:38 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.