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 “Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:51 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.
Saint Roch, by Francesco Francia

Saint Roch

Francesco Francia · 1502

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by John Wakelin

Stand

John Wakelin · 1785–86

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament, by Kunz Lochner

Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · May 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini, by Bartolomeo degli Erri

Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini

Bartolomeo degli Erri · 1467–74

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The House of Bijapur, by Kamal Muhammad

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, by Anthony van Dyck

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo

Anthony van Dyck · 1624

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick

Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal

Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

Public domainThe Met
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 2011

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. 205 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 44431 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 00:51 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.