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. 21 shown for “Regulus regulus regulus” — 56 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 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.
Regulus, by Sebald Beham

Regulus

Sebald Beham · 1500–1550

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Regulus, by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy

Regulus

Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy · 1772

Public domainThe Met
Attilius Regulus in a Barrel, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Diana Scultori

Attilius Regulus in a Barrel, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Diana Scultori · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcus Atilius Regulus in a barrel while two men are hammering in the nails, various figures throughout, by Diana Scultori

Marcus Atilius Regulus in a barrel while two men are hammering in the nails, various figures throughout

Diana Scultori · 1555–77

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Death of Regulus, by Salvator Rosa

Death of Regulus

Salvator Rosa · 1615–73

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Attilius Regulus, from Roman Heroes, by Georg Pencz

Attilius Regulus, from Roman Heroes

Georg Pencz · 1535

Public domainThe Met
Assembly of Roman Figures, from Regulus, a play by Collin, by Franz von Hauslab the Younger

Assembly of Roman Figures, from Regulus, a play by Collin

Franz von Hauslab the Younger · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Dec 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The death of Marcus Atilius Regulus, showng being nailed into a tub by the Carthaginians, by Salvator Rosa

The death of Marcus Atilius Regulus, showng being nailed into a tub by the Carthaginians

Salvator Rosa · ca. 1661–62

Public domainThe Met
Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture, by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Regulus Condemned to the Most Horrible Torture

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jan 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from Roman history

Scenes from Roman history

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–25

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene from Ancient History or Mythology: Theseus Punishing Procrustes (?), by Giuseppe Piattoli

Scene from Ancient History or Mythology: Theseus Punishing Procrustes (?)

Giuseppe Piattoli · 1785–1807

Public domainThe Met
Regulus regulus regulus

Regulus regulus regulus

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 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. 2020 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 2026-09-01 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.