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. 14 shown for “Giorgio Fossati” — 42 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 02:15 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.
Varij Disegni de Camini de Gabineti [sic], by Giorgio Fossati

Varij Disegni de Camini de Gabineti [sic]

Giorgio Fossati · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Ranunculus velutinus Ten.

Ranunculus velutinus Ten.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right, by Domenico Fossati

Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right

Domenico Fossati · 1743–84

Public domainThe Met
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, by Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Catafalque of Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti, by Sebastiano Cipriani, Italian, 1660 - 1740

Catafalque of Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti

Sebastiano Cipriani, Italian, 1660 - 1740 · 1686

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio, by Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926

Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio

Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
San Giorgio, Venice, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

San Giorgio, Venice

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Tribute to Giorgio Vasari, by Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790

Study for a Tribute to Giorgio Vasari

Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790 · ca. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene giraldii Gussone

Silene giraldii Gussone

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Planch.

Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Planch.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gladiolus communis L.

Gladiolus communis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carex humilis Leyss.

Carex humilis Leyss.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1870

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 63 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-04 02:15 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.