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. 12 shown for “Giuseppino Galliari, Italian, 1748 - 1817” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:09 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.
Stage Design, Citadel on a River, by Giuseppino Galliari, Italian, 1748 - 1817

Stage Design, Citadel on a River

Giuseppino Galliari, Italian, 1748 - 1817 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A "Forum", by Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748

A "Forum"

Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch, by Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1718 - 1783

Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch

Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1718 - 1783 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: City with a Loggia, by Fabrizio Galliari, 1709 - 1790

Stage Design: City with a Loggia

Fabrizio Galliari, 1709 - 1790 · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pulpit elevation, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Pulpit elevation

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1748-1778)

Hadrian's Villa near Tivoli, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1748-1778)

Artist not stated in the record · 1748–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Gothic Ruins

Stage Design, Gothic Ruins

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Napoleon as General, by Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

Napoleon as General

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877 · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountain of Trevi, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Fountain of Trevi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1748–78 (printed date)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lawrence Sterne

Lawrence Sterne

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Via crucis - Station IX, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Third Time

Via crucis - Station IX, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Third Time

Artist not stated in the record · 1748

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14147 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 04:09 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.