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 “Francesco Gallo” — 54 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:35 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.
Sleeping sheep, by Francesco Gallo

Sleeping sheep

Francesco Gallo · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lepechinia schiedeana (Schltdl.) Vatke

Lepechinia schiedeana (Schltdl.) Vatke

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated sheep, by Francesco Gallo

Seated sheep

Francesco Gallo · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum silenoides Juss.

Hypericum silenoides Juss.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young bull, by Francesco Gallo

Young bull

Francesco Gallo · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Castilleja integrifolia L. f.

Castilleja integrifolia L. f.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of an Old Woman, by Orazio Borgianni

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Public domainThe Met
Sibthorpia repens (L.) Kuntze

Sibthorpia repens (L.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Lamourouxia xalapensis Kunth

Lamourouxia xalapensis Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parti in grande restaurati de' Trofei de Ottaviano Augusto (Restored detail of the Trophy of Octavian Augusto), by Francesco Piranesi

Parti in grande restaurati de' Trofei de Ottaviano Augusto (Restored detail of the Trophy of Octavian Augusto)

Francesco Piranesi · ca. 1753

Public domainThe Met
Calceolaria mexicana Benth.

Calceolaria mexicana Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis, by Federico Barocci

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Public domainThe Met
Calceolaria mexicana Benth.

Calceolaria mexicana Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario, by Antonello Gagini

Spinario

Antonello Gagini · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Monochaetum calcaratum (DC.) Triana

Monochaetum calcaratum (DC.) Triana

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paradise, by Carlo Saraceni

Paradise

Carlo Saraceni · ca. 1598

Public domainThe Met
Monochaetum calcaratum (DC.) Triana

Monochaetum calcaratum (DC.) Triana

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falstaff at Justice Shallow's Mustering His Recruits (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2), by William Nelson Gardiner

Falstaff at Justice Shallow's Mustering His Recruits (Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2)

William Nelson Gardiner · June 1, 1792

Public domainThe Met
Salvia rhyacophila (Fernald) Epling

Salvia rhyacophila (Fernald) Epling

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1), by Robert Mitchell Meadows

Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1)

Robert Mitchell Meadows · August 1, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Leandra multiplinervis (Naudin) Cogn.

Leandra multiplinervis (Naudin) Cogn.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosalind, Celia & Touchstone (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 2), by John Chapman

Rosalind, Celia & Touchstone (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 2)

John Chapman · June 1, 1792

Public domainThe Met
Gaultheria schiedeana Sleumer

Gaultheria schiedeana Sleumer

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Oct 1975

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 1698 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-05 00:35 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.