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. 16 shown for “Johann Hurlimann, 2 May 1793 - 18 Mar 1850” — 44 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:02 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.
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
Mah-to-toh-pa, by Johann Hurlimann, 2 May 1793 - 18 Mar 1850

Mah-to-toh-pa

Johann Hurlimann, 2 May 1793 - 18 Mar 1850 · c. 1840-43

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques Louis David

The Death of Socrates

Jacques Louis David · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany

Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Gossia conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow

Gossia conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Alstonia lenormandii Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Alstonia lenormandii Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Myrtus sunshinensis Guillaumin

Myrtus sunshinensis Guillaumin

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugenia stricta Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris

Eugenia stricta Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melodinus balansae Baill.

Melodinus balansae Baill.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alyxia tisserantii Montrouz.

Alyxia tisserantii Montrouz.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eugenia myrtopsidoides Guillaumin

Eugenia myrtopsidoides Guillaumin

Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uromyrtus myrtoides (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow

Uromyrtus myrtoides (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melaleuca gnidioides Brongn. & Gris

Melaleuca gnidioides Brongn. & Gris

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ochrosia balansae Baill. ex

Ochrosia balansae Baill. ex

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1951

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3554874 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 19:02 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.