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. 15 shown for “Gerard Vandergucht” — 43 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:49 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.
Frontispiece to "The Humours of Oxford", by Gerard Vandergucht

Frontispiece to "The Humours of Oxford"

Gerard Vandergucht · April 1730

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Designs, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Designs

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gulliver Presented to the Queen of Babilary, Frontispiece to "The Travels of Mr. John Gulliver", by Gerard Vandergucht

Gulliver Presented to the Queen of Babilary, Frontispiece to "The Travels of Mr. John Gulliver"

Gerard Vandergucht · February 1730

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Designs, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Designs

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo, by Gerard Vandergucht

Raffle Ticket for the Painting of Venus and Cupid after Michelangelo

Gerard Vandergucht · 1734

Public domainThe Met
Ironwork Designs, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Designs

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ironwork Gate Design, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Gate Design

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ironwork Designs, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Designs

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ironwork Designs, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Ironwork Designs

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nouveau Livre de Desseins Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Tijou, by Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712

Nouveau Livre de Desseins Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Tijou

Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gerard G. Beekman Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Gerard G. Beekman Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roger Gerard Van Polanen, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Roger Gerard Van Polanen

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gerard Victor Rachal David, by E.W. Mealy's Photograph Gallery

Gerard Victor Rachal David

E.W. Mealy's Photograph Gallery · c.1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mediusella arenaria (F. Gérard) Hong-Wa

Mediusella arenaria (F. Gérard) Hong-Wa

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rosa gabrielis F. Gérard

Rosa gabrielis F. Gérard

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1887 to 23 Sep 1887

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1467 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-29 17:49 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.