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 “Jacob Ritter von Hartmann” — 45 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 04:02 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.
Ali Pasha (born about 1741, died 1822), by Jacob Ritter von Hartmann

Ali Pasha (born about 1741, died 1822)

Jacob Ritter von Hartmann · 1822

Public domainThe Met
Austrostipa campylachne (Nees) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett

Austrostipa campylachne (Nees) S.W.L. Jacobs & J. Everett

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recto: The Concert Verso: Seated Male Nude, by Johann Liss

Recto: The Concert Verso: Seated Male Nude

Johann Liss · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum depressum Steud.

Paspalum depressum Steud.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Nature Over Art (design for an engraving of 'De Florum Cultura'), by Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

The Triumph of Nature Over Art (design for an engraving of 'De Florum Cultura')

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
Saxicola dacotiae dacotiae

Saxicola dacotiae dacotiae

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt, by Giovanni Lanfranco

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Lanfranco · 1582–1647

Public domainThe Met
Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man with a Moor's Head on His Signet Ring, by Conrad Faber von Creuznach

Portrait of a Man with a Moor's Head on His Signet Ring

Conrad Faber von Creuznach

Public domainThe Met
Bromus intermedius Gussone

Bromus intermedius Gussone

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Bromus lanceolatus Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bromus scoparius L.

Bromus scoparius L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crex crex

Crex crex

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cinclus cinclus aquaticus

Cinclus cinclus aquaticus

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lanius senator senator

Lanius senator senator

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1896

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 44057 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 2026-09-02 04:02 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.