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. 21 shown for “Frederick Pace” — 52 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:39 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.
English Bass Horn in B-flat, by Frederick Pace

English Bass Horn in B-flat

Frederick Pace · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Three Musicians in Front of the Albergo Della Pace, 1810, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Recto: Three Musicians in Front of the Albergo Della Pace, 1810

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sea, by John Frederick Kensett

The Sea

John Frederick Kensett · 1872

Public domainThe Met
The Cumaean Sibyl from Raphael's Fresco in St. Maria della Pace

The Cumaean Sibyl from Raphael's Fresco in St. Maria della Pace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Four Heads

Capital with Four Heads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1225–50

Public domainThe Met
Psittacanthus mayanus Standl. & Steyerm.

Psittacanthus mayanus Standl. & Steyerm.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 10/7/2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flight into Egypt, by Carlo Maratti

The Flight into Egypt

Carlo Maratti · ca. 1664

Public domainThe Met
Ipomoea alba L.

Ipomoea alba L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/7/2019

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
Diospyros texana Scheele

Diospyros texana Scheele

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of the Sabine Women, by Nicolas Poussin

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Public domainThe Met
Monument for an Accademia della Pace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Monument for an Accademia della Pace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 6 from "La Tauromaquia": The Moors make a different play in the ring calling the bull with their burnous, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 6 from "La Tauromaquia": The Moors make a different play in the ring calling the bull with their burnous

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1816

Public domainThe Met
Monument for an Accademia della Pace, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Monument for an Accademia della Pace

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?), by Bicci di Lorenzo

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)

Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Racking (pacing) saddle, brown Horse 'Pronto', by Muybridge, Eadweard

Racking (pacing) saddle, brown Horse 'Pronto'

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Pacing, sulky, brown Horse 'Pronto', by Muybridge, Eadweard

Pacing, sulky, brown Horse 'Pronto'

Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clipper Ship "Sweepstakes", by James E. Buttersworth

Clipper Ship "Sweepstakes"

James E. Buttersworth · 1853

Public domainThe Met
Clematis pitcheri Torr. & A. Gray

Clematis pitcheri Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 2007

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Phrygian Sybil from Raphael’s Fresco in St. Maria della Pace

The Phrygian Sybil from Raphael’s Fresco in St. Maria della Pace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 50336 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 14:39 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.