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. 24 shown for “Giuseppe Canale” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:15 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.
Judith slaying Holofernes, by Giuseppe Canale

Judith slaying Holofernes

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
4-cent, Ordinary Postal Card Printing Plate

4-cent, Ordinary Postal Card Printing Plate

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giuseppe Canale

Madonna and Child

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Canal Zone Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Canal Zone Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, by Giuseppe Canale

Madonna and Child with Saint Anne

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
Canal Zone Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Canal Zone Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated woman winding yarn, by Giuseppe Canale

Seated woman winding yarn

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
New Issue Postal Cards and Stamped Envelopes Press Release

New Issue Postal Cards and Stamped Envelopes Press Release

Artist not stated in the record · 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putto reclining on a bed, by Giuseppe Canale

Putto reclining on a bed

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
New Issue Air Post Envelope Press Release

New Issue Air Post Envelope Press Release

Artist not stated in the record · 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated woman holding a fan, by Giuseppe Canale

Seated woman holding a fan

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman combing her hair, by Giuseppe Canale

Woman combing her hair

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, by Giuseppe Canale

Madonna and Child with Saint Anne

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

7-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman standing holding a mirror, by Giuseppe Canale

Woman standing holding a mirror

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

8-cent, Air Post Envelope Working Die

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giuseppe Canale

Madonna and Child

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
4-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

4-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Giuseppe Canale

The Holy Family

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
3-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

3-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure seated in a long dress, by Giuseppe Canale

Female figure seated in a long dress

Giuseppe Canale · 1775

Public domainThe Met
2-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die, by Bureau of Engraving and Printing

2-cent, Ordinary Envelope Working Die

Bureau of Engraving and Printing · c. 1932

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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 45038 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-28 14:15 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.