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. 17 shown for “Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Fourth Angel Sounds the Trumpet and an Eagle Cries Woe” — 45 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:05 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.
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Fourth Angel Sounds the Trumpet and an Eagle Cries Woe

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Fourth Angel Sounds the Trumpet and an Eagle Cries Woe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Ceiling: Triumph of Meekness and Strength, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

Design for a Painted Ceiling: Triumph of Meekness and Strength

Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Apocalypse

The Cloisters Apocalypse

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330

Public domainThe Met
Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Allegory of the Triumph of the Church, Fourth Scene

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1833

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the First Angel Sounds the Trumpet; Fire, Hail-stones, and Blood are Cast Upon the Earth

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the First Angel Sounds the Trumpet; Fire, Hail-stones, and Blood are Cast Upon the Earth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Andiron, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Design for an Andiron

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail from Last Judgment, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Detail from Last Judgment

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for an Angel, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch for an Angel

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1880–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce, by Lange, active 1730 – 1750

Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce

Lange, active 1730 – 1750 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coat of arms, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Coat of arms

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design with Hercules, by François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693

Ornament Design with Hercules

François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693 · 1669–93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sale agreement and convent transfer of power in colonial New Spain

Sale agreement and convent transfer of power in colonial New Spain

Artist not stated in the record · February 1724

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. 3260947 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-06 16:05 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.