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 “Nicola Morelli” — 40 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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.

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.

Shrine in the Woods near Ceppo Morelli, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Shrine in the Woods near Ceppo Morelli, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 11, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cascade between Macugnaga and Ceppo Morelli, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cascade between Macugnaga and Ceppo Morelli, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 12, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gorge between Ceppo Morelli and Macugnaga, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Gorge between Ceppo Morelli and Macugnaga, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 11–12, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Bernard from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Bernard from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Mary of Egypt from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Mary of Egypt from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ponte Romano and Alpine View near Ceppo Morelli, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ponte Romano and Alpine View near Ceppo Morelli, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 11, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saxifraga sp.

Saxifraga sp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apocynum cannabinum L.

Apocynum cannabinum L.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Mother and Child, by Carlo Morelli, Italian, active 1830—1860

Standing Mother and Child

Carlo Morelli, Italian, active 1830—1860 · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia sp.

Muhlenbergia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muhlenbergia rigida (Kunth) Kunth

Muhlenbergia rigida (Kunth) Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1953

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. 5605 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-28 22:15 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.