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. 14 shown for “Jeremias Wachsmuth, German, 1684–1771” — 26 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:15 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.
Decorated Roman alphabet, by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Decorated Roman alphabet

Jeremias Wachsmuth · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Rocaille Apse, by Jeremias Wachsmuth, German, 1684–1771

Design for a Rocaille Apse

Jeremias Wachsmuth, German, 1684–1771 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Roman alphabet, by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Decorated Roman alphabet

Jeremias Wachsmuth · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs, by Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755

Albums of Prints: German Rocaille Designs

Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decorated Roman alphabet, by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Decorated Roman alphabet

Jeremias Wachsmuth · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorated Roman alphabet, by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Decorated Roman alphabet

Jeremias Wachsmuth · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Ceiling Decorations, plate 2 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Two Designs for Ceiling Decorations, plate 2 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Decoration, plate 3 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Design for a Ceiling Decoration, plate 3 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling Decoration, plate 4 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Design for a Ceiling Decoration, plate 4 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Ceiling Decorations, plate 1 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Two Designs for Ceiling Decorations, plate 1 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 1 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 1 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 4 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 4 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 3 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 3 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
Various Designs for Rocaille Ornaments, plate 3 from "Fortsezung von unterschielichen Auszierungen zu allerleij nüzlich anzuwenden", by Jeremias Wachsmuth

Various Designs for Rocaille Ornaments, plate 3 from "Fortsezung von unterschielichen Auszierungen zu allerleij nüzlich anzuwenden"

Jeremias Wachsmuth · printed ca. 1750–56

Public domainThe Met
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. 51 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 19:15 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.