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. 12 shown for “Franz Xavier Gegenreiner” — 24 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:45 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Réprésentation du feu terrible à nouvelle Yorck, que les Américains allumé pendant la nuit du 19. septembre 1776 (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776), by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Réprésentation du feu terrible à nouvelle Yorck, que les Américains allumé pendant la nuit du 19. septembre 1776 (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776)

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1778

Public domainThe Met
La Destruction de la Statue Royale à Nouvelle Yorck–Die Zerstörung der Königlichen Bild Säule zu Neu Yorck (Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York), by Anonymous, French, 18th century

La Destruction de la Statue Royale à Nouvelle Yorck–Die Zerstörung der Königlichen Bild Säule zu Neu Yorck (Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York)

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with a Secretaire, from 'Schreibtische', by Franz Xavier Habermann

Wall Elevation with a Secretaire, from 'Schreibtische'

Franz Xavier Habermann · ca. 1748–70

Public domainThe Met
L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York], by Anonymous, French, 18th century

L'Entré triumphale des Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck – Der Einzug der Königlichen Volcker in Neu Yorck [The Triumphal Entry of Royal Troops into New York]

Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1776–77

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, plate 4 from "Tabernacle", by Franz Xavier Habermann

Design for a Tabernacle, plate 4 from "Tabernacle"

Franz Xavier Habermann · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, plate 1 from "Tabernacle", by Franz Xavier Habermann

Design for a Tabernacle, plate 1 from "Tabernacle"

Franz Xavier Habermann · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, plate 3 from "Tabernacle", by Franz Xavier Habermann

Design for a Tabernacle, plate 3 from "Tabernacle"

Franz Xavier Habermann · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with a Double Door, from 'Wandfüllungen', by Franz Xavier Habermann

Wall Elevation with a Double Door, from 'Wandfüllungen'

Franz Xavier Habermann · ca. 1748–70

Public domainThe Met
The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter · 1854

Public domainThe Met
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

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. 40 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:45 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.