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 “Johann Christian Sick” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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.
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Johann Christian Wiegleb

Johann Christian Wiegleb

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Johann Christian Preis

Johann Christian Preis

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Christian VIII

Christian VIII

Artist not stated in the record · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Johann Christian Sick

Box

Johann Christian Sick · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavichord, by Christian Kintzing

Clavichord

Christian Kintzing · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen), by Christian Krohg

The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)

Christian Krohg · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guitar, by Christian Frederick Martin

Guitar

Christian Frederick Martin · ca. 1838

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight, by Johan Christian Dahl

Copenhagen Harbor by Moonlight

Johan Christian Dahl · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset, by Johan Christian Dahl

Two Men before a Waterfall at Sunset

Johan Christian Dahl · 1823

Public domainThe Met
Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Healing the Sick, by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Christ Healing the Sick

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1742

Public domainThe Met
Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

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. 231 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. 17973 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.