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 “Head of Augustus” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 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.
Head of Augustus

Head of Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · 30–14 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Colossal marble head of the emperor Augustus

Colossal marble head of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–30 CE

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Woman, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Head of a Woman

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus

Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Three Heads, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketches of Three Heads

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus

Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–37 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Head of the Madonna, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Head of the Madonna

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head, by Temne or Bullom artist(s)

Head

Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold aureus of Augustus

Gold aureus of Augustus

Artist not stated in the record · 20–19 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln), by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Kneeling Captive

Statue of Kneeling Captive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanderbilt Mantelpiece, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Vanderbilt Mantelpiece

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1881–83

Public domainThe Met
Head of a Woman, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Head of a Woman

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Augustus the Strong, by Meissen Manufactory

Augustus the Strong

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha

Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Woman's Head, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of a Woman's Head

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

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. 34302 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2880998 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 03:07 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.