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. 12 shown for “Neit suckling two crocodiles” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:24 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Romulus and Remus Suckled the Wolf; Romulus Dedicates to Jove Feretrius the Spoils of Conquered King Acronius, Two Studies after Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Romulus and Remus Suckled the Wolf; Romulus Dedicates to Jove Feretrius the Spoils of Conquered King Acronius, Two Studies after Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Knights in Armor Confronting a Crocodile and a Boar, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Two Knights in Armor Confronting a Crocodile and a Boar

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Crocodile Hunt in Tentyra, in Egypt, plate 30 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or after

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, Summer, Fall., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Spring, Summer, Fall.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall, by Jacquemart & Bénard, France

Sidewall

Jacquemart & Bénard, France · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse, by Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770

Fragment of a cartoon for cotton printing: Fauchon la Vielleuse

Petitpierre & Compe., (Nantes, France, founded 1770 · 1785–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of Africa

Figure of Africa

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Ducks using Pumpkins in the West Indies, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Hunting Ducks using Pumpkins in the West Indies

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus and Ariadne with Autumn and Victories and Three Roundels with Putti

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · late 18th century

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 50519 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 04:24 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.