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. 20 shown for “Orazio Samacchini” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:03 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.
Allegory, by Orazio Samacchini

Allegory

Orazio Samacchini · 1532–77

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, Study after Orazio Samacchini, Forli, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Annunciation, Study after Orazio Samacchini, Forli

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Seated King in Armor (King David?), by Orazio Samacchini

A Seated King in Armor (King David?)

Orazio Samacchini · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica, by Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678

Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica

Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678 · ca. 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs, by Orazio Samacchini

Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs

Orazio Samacchini · 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Plate with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides, by Urbino Workshop

Plate with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides

Urbino Workshop · ca. 1540-1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Decoration of a Vault, by Orazio Samacchini

Study for the Decoration of a Vault

Orazio Samacchini · 1532–77

Public domainThe Met
Nicotiana alata Link & Otto

Nicotiana alata Link & Otto

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Anonymous

Untitled

Anonymous · ca. 1570–1650

Public domainThe Met
Nicotiana trigonophylla Dunal

Nicotiana trigonophylla Dunal

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Psalm of David, by Agostino Carracci

Allegory of the Psalm of David

Agostino Carracci · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Amorino

Amorino

Artist not stated in the record · possibly ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in Parma Cathedral), by Michelangelo Anselmi

Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in Parma Cathedral)

Michelangelo Anselmi · ca. 1548

Public domainThe Met
Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook.

Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Putti with a Mitre, Crosier Mace, Book, and Candle, by Daniele Crespi

Putti with a Mitre, Crosier Mace, Book, and Candle

Daniele Crespi · 1597–1630

Public domainThe Met
Nicotiana alata Link & Otto

Nicotiana alata Link & Otto

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicotiana tabacum var. havanensis Comes

Nicotiana tabacum var. havanensis Comes

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicotiana langsdorffii Weinm.

Nicotiana langsdorffii Weinm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicotiana langsdorffii Weinm.

Nicotiana langsdorffii Weinm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nicotiana tabacum var. brasiliensis Comes

Nicotiana tabacum var. brasiliensis Comes

Artist not stated in the record

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 42 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-26 16:03 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.