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. 15 shown for “Priests before Shri Nathji” — 43 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:39 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.
Priests before Shri Nathji

Priests before Shri Nathji

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Worship of Shri Nathji

Worship of Shri Nathji

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Krishna in the Form of Shri Nathji

Krishna in the Form of Shri Nathji

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight

Maharana Raj Singh I observing an elephant fight

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes)

Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 332–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
On Your Knees and Swear It, by Albert Lynch, French, 1851 - after 1900

On Your Knees and Swear It

Albert Lynch, French, 1851 - after 1900 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Caiphas

Christ before Caiphas

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Last Unction

Last Unction

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Telemachus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Story of Telemachus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Priest (Kōbō Daishi) practicing the Tantra, a demon before him, and a wolf behind, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

A Priest (Kōbō Daishi) practicing the Tantra, a demon before him, and a wolf behind

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Muzeo Scevola before Porsenna, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Muzeo Scevola before Porsenna

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Doorway to the Sacristy of St. Peter's, Rome, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Doorway to the Sacristy of St. Peter's, Rome

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The House that Jack Built, by Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915

The House that Jack Built

Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Exposition of the Holy Sacrament, Attended by Louis XIV and His Mother, Anne of Austria, by Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664

The Exposition of the Holy Sacrament, Attended by Louis XIV and His Mother, Anne of Austria

Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610–1664 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling of Cabinet dedicated to Peace, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Ceiling of Cabinet dedicated to Peace, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14855 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 20:39 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.