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. 23 shown for “Johann Nepomuk” — 58 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:44 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.
Metronome, by Johann Nepomuk Maelzel

Metronome

Johann Nepomuk Maelzel · ca. 1821

Public domainThe Met
Prince Felix Salm Salm

Prince Felix Salm Salm

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Johann Nepomuk Strixner

Landscape

Johann Nepomuk Strixner · ca. 1811

Public domainThe Met
Prince Felix Salm Salm

Prince Felix Salm Salm

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page for "Illustrirte Zeitung 1856", by Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren

Title Page for "Illustrirte Zeitung 1856"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren · 1856

Public domainThe Met
Prince Felix Salm Salm

Prince Felix Salm Salm

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover design for the "Illustrirte Zeitung", by Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren

Cover design for the "Illustrirte Zeitung"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren · 1860

Public domainThe Met
Vestibule en Perspective

Vestibule en Perspective

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Johannes Nepomuk Distributing Alms, by Leopold Kupelwieser

Saint Johannes Nepomuk Distributing Alms

Leopold Kupelwieser · 1828

Public domainThe Met
Vestibule en Perspective, by Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, German, 1688 – 1749

Vestibule en Perspective

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, German, 1688 – 1749 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Deutsche Dichtungen mit Randzeichnungen Deutscher Künstler. I. Band (Lider und Bilder, II), by Wilhelm Camphausen

Deutsche Dichtungen mit Randzeichnungen Deutscher Künstler. I. Band (Lider und Bilder, II)

Wilhelm Camphausen · 1843

Public domainThe Met
Jeux d'Enfants, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Jeux d'Enfants

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustrated Manuscript Inventory of an Armory for Sale by Lottery

Illustrated Manuscript Inventory of an Armory for Sale by Lottery

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Morganlandschaft

Morganlandschaft

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breastplate

Breastplate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Boss (Umbo)

Shield Boss (Umbo)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
LA FONTAINE DES QUATRES PARTIES DU MONDE, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

LA FONTAINE DES QUATRES PARTIES DU MONDE

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shield Boss (Umbo)

Shield Boss (Umbo)

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Etude d’une Fontaine Publique en perspective Inventé par feu Mr. Gille D’oppenort, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Etude d’une Fontaine Publique en perspective Inventé par feu Mr. Gille D’oppenort

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)

Tournament Helm (Kolbenturnierhelm)

Artist not stated in the record · 1510

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Coffee Urn, by Johann Nepomuk

Design for a Coffee Urn

Johann Nepomuk · 1821-1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick with Alternative Suggestions, by Johann Nepomuk

Design for a Candlestick with Alternative Suggestions

Johann Nepomuk · 1820-1835

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 1 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. 5538 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 2026-08-27 21:44 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.