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. 13 shown for “Gaetano Vascellini” — 41 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.
Ecce Homo, by Gaetano Vascellini

Ecce Homo

Gaetano Vascellini · 1765–1805

Public domainThe Met
Gaetano Trentanova, by Filippo Costaggini, born Rome, Italy 1839-died Upper Falls, MD 1904

Gaetano Trentanova

Filippo Costaggini, born Rome, Italy 1839-died Upper Falls, MD 1904 · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gaetano Bedini, by Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862

Gaetano Bedini

Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi...", by Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821

Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi..."

Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821 · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Count Carlo Gaetano di Gaisruck

Portrait of Count Carlo Gaetano di Gaisruck

Artist not stated in the record · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, A Queen's Apartment from the ballet "Il Conte d'Essex" by Gaetano Gioja, first performed at La Scala in 1818, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, A Queen's Apartment from the ballet "Il Conte d'Essex" by Gaetano Gioja, first performed at La Scala in 1818

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican), by Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791 · 1722–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paspalum conjugatum P.J. Bergius

Paspalum conjugatum P.J. Bergius

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paspalum virgatum L.

Paspalum virgatum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paspalum paniculatum L.

Paspalum paniculatum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffea sp.

Coffea sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bursera sp.

Bursera sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1986

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 127 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-26 20:19 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.