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 “Hans Traut” — 61 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:20 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.
Virgin and Child, by Hans Traut

Virgin and Child

Hans Traut

Public domainThe Met
Townsendia eximia A. Gray

Townsendia eximia A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Theuerdank, by Melchior Pfintzing

Theuerdank

Melchior Pfintzing · 1519

Public domainThe Met
Anthoxanthum nitens (G.H. Weber) R.T.A. Schouten & Veldkamp

Anthoxanthum nitens (G.H. Weber) R.T.A. Schouten & Veldkamp

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The First Flemish Rebellion; The Campaign Against Liège; The Coronation of Maximilian; The Second Flemish Rebellion; The Alliance Between Philip I of Castile and Henry VII; The Victory Against France, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Hans Springinklee

The First Flemish Rebellion; The Campaign Against Liège; The Coronation of Maximilian; The Second Flemish Rebellion; The Alliance Between Philip I of Castile and Henry VII; The Victory Against France, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Hans Springinklee · 1515

Public domainThe Met
Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland, by Hans Süss von Kulmbach

Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland

Hans Süss von Kulmbach · ca. 1508

Public domainThe Met
The Betrothal of Mary of Burgundy; Young Maximilian; The Struggle for the Burgundian Succession; The Battle Near Therouanne; The War in Guelderland; and The Utrecht Feud, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Dürer

The Betrothal of Mary of Burgundy; Young Maximilian; The Struggle for the Burgundian Succession; The Battle Near Therouanne; The War in Guelderland; and The Utrecht Feud, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Dürer · 1515

Public domainThe Met
The Marriage of Philip the Fair to Joanna of Austria; Maximilian Recaptures the Occupied Territories from Hungary; The Conquest of Hungary; The Swiss War; The Liberation of Naples; and The Battle of Wenzenberg, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Dürer

The Marriage of Philip the Fair to Joanna of Austria; Maximilian Recaptures the Occupied Territories from Hungary; The Conquest of Hungary; The Swiss War; The Liberation of Naples; and The Battle of Wenzenberg, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Dürer · 1515

Public domainThe Met
Lower Portion of the Entryway to the Right Portal (Die Porten des Adels); and the Outer Right Sockel of the Central Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Dürer

Lower Portion of the Entryway to the Right Portal (Die Porten des Adels); and the Outer Right Sockel of the Central Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Dürer · 1515

Public domainThe Met
Maximilian's Prowess in the Chase; and The Legend of the Holy Coat of Treves; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Altdorfer

Maximilian's Prowess in the Chase; and The Legend of the Holy Coat of Treves; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1517/1518

Public domainThe Met
Maximilian as Founder and Protector of the Order of St. George; and Maximilian and the Knights of St. George Vowing a Crusade Against the Turks; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Altdorfer

Maximilian as Founder and Protector of the Order of St. George; and Maximilian and the Knights of St. George Vowing a Crusade Against the Turks; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1515

Public domainThe Met
Maximilian as Commander-in-Chief; and Maximilian Conversing in Seven Languages; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Albrecht Altdorfer

Maximilian as Commander-in-Chief; and Maximilian Conversing in Seven Languages; with Portraits of Emperors and Kings (Maximilian's Forerunners), from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1515

Public domainThe Met
[Der Theuerdank]. Die geverlicheiten und eines teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren vnd hochberumbten helds vnd Ritters Tewrdannckhs, by Melchior Pfintzing

[Der Theuerdank]. Die geverlicheiten und eines teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren vnd hochberumbten helds vnd Ritters Tewrdannckhs

Melchior Pfintzing · 1519

Public domainThe Met
The Ornaments Atop the Left Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18, by Hans Springinklee

The Ornaments Atop the Left Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

Hans Springinklee · 1515

Public domainThe Met
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. 21 matched · 21 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. 12050 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:20 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.