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 “Imprimerie de Testu” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:38 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.
Almanach royal, année bissextile M.DCC.LXCII : présenté a sa Majeste pour la premiere fois en 1699 par Laurent d'Houry, by Imprimerie de Testu

Almanach royal, année bissextile M.DCC.LXCII : présenté a sa Majeste pour la premiere fois en 1699 par Laurent d'Houry

Imprimerie de Testu · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Deinbollia claessensii (De Wild.)

Deinbollia claessensii (De Wild.)

Artist not stated in the record · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Almanach impérial, pour l'année M. DCCC. XIII présente a S. M. l'Empereur et Roi, par Testu

Almanach impérial, pour l'année M. DCCC. XIII présente a S. M. l'Empereur et Roi, par Testu

Artist not stated in the record · 1813

Public domainThe Met
Cissus dewevrei De Wild. & Durand

Cissus dewevrei De Wild. & Durand

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rapport au roi sur la situation, au 31 mars, 1829, des canaux et autres ouvrages entrepris en vertu des lois des 20 juin et 5 aout 1821, by L'Imprimerie Royale

Rapport au roi sur la situation, au 31 mars, 1829, des canaux et autres ouvrages entrepris en vertu des lois des 20 juin et 5 aout 1821

L'Imprimerie Royale · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Diospyros canaliculata De Wild.

Diospyros canaliculata De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 1907 to 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild.

Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication, by Denis Diderot

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

Denis Diderot · 1762–72

Public domainThe Met
Leptoderris dewevrei De Wild.

Leptoderris dewevrei De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque piéce, par M. Bret, by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Oeuvres de Moliere : avec des remarques grammaticales, des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque piéce, par M. Bret

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière · 1773

Public domainThe Met
Dialium pierrei De Wild.

Dialium pierrei De Wild.

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes, by Plutarch

Traité de Plutarque, sur la manière de discerner un flatteur d'avec un ami et Le banquet des sept sages: dialogue du même auteur revu & corrigé sur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du roi; avec une version françoise & des notes

Plutarch · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Tricalysia pallens Hiern

Tricalysia pallens Hiern

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Latest Fashions, Expressly Designed and Prepared for Le Moniteur de la Mode, by A. Bodin

The Latest Fashions, Expressly Designed and Prepared for Le Moniteur de la Mode

A. Bodin · June 1, 1887

Public domainThe Met
Tricalysia pallens Hiern

Tricalysia pallens Hiern

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéphren, by Félix Teynard

Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéphren

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Barteria dewevrei De Wild. & Durand

Barteria dewevrei De Wild. & Durand

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Assouan, Ruines de l'Ancienne Enciente Arabe, au Sud-Est de la Ville, by Félix Teynard

Assouan, Ruines de l'Ancienne Enciente Arabe, au Sud-Est de la Ville

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Motandra lujaei De Wild. & Durand

Motandra lujaei De Wild. & Durand

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1929

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéops (Grande Pyramide), by Félix Teynard

Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéops (Grande Pyramide)

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Xylopia aurantiiodora De Wild. & Durand

Xylopia aurantiiodora De Wild. & Durand

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Souâdj, Tombeau de Mouràd-Bey - Entrée de la Mosquée, by Félix Teynard

Souâdj, Tombeau de Mouràd-Bey - Entrée de la Mosquée

Félix Teynard · 1851–52, printed 1853–54

Public domainThe Met
Xylopia longipetala De Wild. & Durand

Xylopia longipetala De Wild. & Durand

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1921

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. 622 matched · 24 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. 612777 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 11:38 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.