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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 “Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:41 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.
Doric Entablature, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Doric Entablature

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Flyer announcing a speech by Dean G.A. FFrench-Beytagh, by Unidentified

Flyer announcing a speech by Dean G.A. FFrench-Beytagh

Unidentified · 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinthian Base, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Corinthian Base

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus cuatrecasasii G.A. Black

Axonopus cuatrecasasii G.A. Black

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ionic Base, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Ionic Base

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus schultesii G.A. Black

Axonopus schultesii G.A. Black

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1979 to 1 May 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinthian Base, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Corinthian Base

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus cuatrecasasii G.A. Black

Axonopus cuatrecasasii G.A. Black

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Mar 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ionic Capital, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Ionic Capital

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Physaria rollinsii G.A. Mulligan

Physaria rollinsii G.A. Mulligan

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doric capital with measurements, by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Doric capital with measurements

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Lepidium densiflorum var. macrocarpum G.A. Mulligan

Lepidium densiflorum var. macrocarpum G.A. Mulligan

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with heads and masks, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Capital with heads and masks, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus iridifolius (Poepp.) G.A. Black

Axonopus iridifolius (Poepp.) G.A. Black

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1984 to 25 Jul 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with ram heads and masks, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Capital with ram heads and masks, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis G.A. Black & Fróes in G.A. Black & Pires

Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis G.A. Black & Fróes in G.A. Black & Pires

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket capital with fruit and satyr head, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Basket capital with fruit and satyr head, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis G.A. Black & Fróes in G.A. Black & Pires

Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis G.A. Black & Fróes in G.A. Black & Pires

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with peapod volutes and satyr head, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Capital with peapod volutes and satyr head, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Aristolochia adiastola G.A. Romero & Elad.Fernández

Aristolochia adiastola G.A. Romero & Elad.Fernández

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinthian base from the Lateran Baptistery, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Corinthian base from the Lateran Baptistery, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Axonopus pennellii G.A. Black

Axonopus pennellii G.A. Black

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Nov 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pegasus capital from the Temple of Mars Ultor and decorated base, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

Pegasus capital from the Temple of Mars Ultor and decorated base, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop · ca. 1537

Public domainThe Met
Aristolochia bonettiana Elad.Fernández & G.A. Romero

Aristolochia bonettiana Elad.Fernández & G.A. Romero

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1969

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. 97 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1292944 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 2026-08-31 21:41 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.