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. 13 shown for “Hermione invoking Minerva” — 41 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:42 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.
Hermione invoking Minerva

Hermione invoking Minerva

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hermione obsoleta Haw.

Hermione obsoleta Haw.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ida Minerva Tarbell, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Ida Minerva Tarbell

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ida Minerva Tarbell, by Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975

Ida Minerva Tarbell

Clara Sipprell, 31 Oct 1885 - 27 Dec 1975 · c. 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva Chapman Self-Portrait, by Minerva Josephine Chapman, 1858 - 1947

Minerva Chapman Self-Portrait

Minerva Josephine Chapman, 1858 - 1947 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi, Forli., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi, Forli.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1819

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Asking Jupiter for the Happiness of Ulysses or Minerva Questions Jupiter on the Destiny of Ithaca

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci), by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci)

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · before 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva Giustiniani, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Minerva Giustiniani

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Cabinet card of Minerva Singleton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return of Ulysses to Ithaca, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Return of Ulysses to Ithaca, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1802–05

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 276 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 18:42 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.