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 “Lorenzo Mosca” — 49 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.
Woman, by Lorenzo Mosca

Woman

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Peyritschia planifolia (Kunth) P.M. Peterson et al.

Peyritschia planifolia (Kunth) P.M. Peterson et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man, by Lorenzo Mosca

Man

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. ex A. Gray

Muhlenbergia pungens Thurb. ex A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King's attendant, by Lorenzo Mosca

King's attendant

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Xylocopa (Schonnherria) lucida

Xylocopa (Schonnherria) lucida

Artist not stated in the record · [Not Stated]

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Lorenzo Mosca

Angel

Lorenzo Mosca · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Microtus pennsylvanicus modestus

Microtus pennsylvanicus modestus

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Lorenzo Mosca

Angel

Lorenzo Mosca · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Thomomys talpoides agrestis

Thomomys talpoides agrestis

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shepherd, by Lorenzo Mosca

Shepherd

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Angel, by Lorenzo Mosca

Angel

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Angel, by Lorenzo Mosca

Angel

Lorenzo Mosca · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Canis latrans lestes

Canis latrans lestes

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alpheus and Arethusa, by Battista di Domenico Lorenzi

Alpheus and Arethusa

Battista di Domenico Lorenzi · 1568–70

Public domainThe Met
Canis latrans lestes

Canis latrans lestes

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perognathus flavescens relictus

Perognathus flavescens relictus

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1907

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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7901 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-26 18:15 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.