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. 18 shown for “Nicolaas Struyk” — 46 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:40 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.
A Caterpillar and Two Moths on a Branch and Two Butterflies, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Caterpillar and Two Moths on a Branch and Two Butterflies

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Justicia carthaginensis Jacq.

Justicia carthaginensis Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dragonfly, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Dragonfly

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Edward Anthony, by Nicolaas Henneman, 1813 - 1898?

Edward Anthony

Nicolaas Henneman, 1813 - 1898? · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Butterfly, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Butterfly

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir des Cressonnières à Veules

Souvenir des Cressonnières à Veules

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Moth, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Moth

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pellionia daveauana N.E. Br.

Pellionia daveauana N.E. Br.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Butterfly, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Butterfly

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Crateva tapia L.

Crateva tapia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Moth, by Nicolaas Struyk

A Moth

Nicolaas Struyk · early 18th–mid 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pulchranthus adenostachyus (Lindau) V.M. Baum et al.

Pulchranthus adenostachyus (Lindau) V.M. Baum et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conyza sp.

Conyza sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Retour de la Pêche

La Retour de la Pêche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Room in Artist's House

Room in Artist's House

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger

Vachellia tortuosa (L.) Seigler & Ebinger

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hippomane mancinella L.

Hippomane mancinella L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sida salviifolia C. Presl

Sida salviifolia C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1952

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 422 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 08:40 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.