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 “Hans Weiditz the Younger” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of Maximilian I, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

Portrait of Maximilian I

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1518–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

Princess Christina, Duchess of Milan

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Erasmus Rotterdamus, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chased Silver Medallion, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543

Chased Silver Medallion

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543 · 1532–43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin", by Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503

Adoration of Magi, plate 7 from series "Life of the Virgin"

Israhel van Meckenem, German, ca. 1440 - 1503 · ca. 1490

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Little Crow the Younger, by Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886

Little Crow the Younger

Joel Emmons Whitney, 19 May 1822 - 1886 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger, by Unidentified (British)

Portrait of Thomas Gatchell the Younger

Unidentified (British) · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pash-ee-pa-hó, Little Stabbing Chief, the Younger, One of Black Hawk's Braves

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Architectural Prints, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Album of Architectural Prints

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · ca. 1770

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1193609 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.