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 “Lobelia cardinalis L.” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:02 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.
Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61), by Jean Varin

Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61)

Jean Varin · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis

Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal (Lobelia cardinalis), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes, by Goodwin & Company

Cardinal (Lobelia cardinalis), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company · 1890

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61), by Jean Varin

Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61)

Jean Varin · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis x L. siphilitica L. var. siphilitica

Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis x L. siphilitica L. var. siphilitica

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 1: Ferdinand as Mars, standing on a pedestal; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Pieter de Jode II

Plate 1: Ferdinand as Mars, standing on a pedestal; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis x L. siphilitica L. var. siphilitica

Lobelia cardinalis L. subsp. cardinalis x L. siphilitica L. var. siphilitica

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 3: Portrait of Ferdinand Cardinal Infante of Spain, in military armor; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacobus van Schoor

Plate 3: Portrait of Ferdinand Cardinal Infante of Spain, in military armor; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacobus van Schoor · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 17: Aeneas welcomed by King Euandrus in Italy; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Cornelis Galle I

Plate 17: Aeneas welcomed by King Euandrus in Italy; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Cornelis Galle I · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 14: Ferdinand on a voyage with the Argonauts; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacobus van Schoor

Plate 14: Ferdinand on a voyage with the Argonauts; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacobus van Schoor · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 23: Emperor Charles V, campaign in Africa; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Jacob Neeffs

Plate 23: Emperor Charles V, campaign in Africa; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Jacob Neeffs · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Anton van der Does

Plate 25: Philip crowned King of Spain by his father, Charles V; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Anton van der Does · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 21: Emperor Charles V being offered the keys of Saxony and Hesse; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Anton van der Does

Plate 21: Emperor Charles V being offered the keys of Saxony and Hesse; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Anton van der Does · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 6: Ferdinand receiving the keys to the city of Ghent; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Pieter de Jode II

Plate 6: Ferdinand receiving the keys to the city of Ghent; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 24: Charles V crowned Emperor by the Pope; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...', by Pieter de Jode II

Plate 24: Charles V crowned Emperor by the Pope; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Pieter de Jode II · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Lobelia cardinalis L.

Lobelia cardinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1894

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. 49 matched · 24 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. 1295782 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 17:02 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.