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. 24 shown for “Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:17 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.
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Fantastic Garden, by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715

Fantastic Garden

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a view towards Caprarola, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Landscape with a view towards Caprarola

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · First quarter of the 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat

Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain

Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain

Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century

Public domainThe Met
Fantastic Landscape with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments

Fantastic Landscape with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Mountain View, El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain View, El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 20, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine, by Théodore Chassériau

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine

Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Public domainThe Met
Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chasse of Champagnat

Chasse of Champagnat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Landscape, by Francesco Guardi

Fantastic Landscape

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Woven Shawls

Two Designs for Woven Shawls

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastic Landscape, by Francesco Guardi

Fantastic Landscape

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Overlooking El Arabah, Part One, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Overlooking El Arabah, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 20, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2100 BCE

Public domainThe Met
West Point from Castle Rock, Part Two, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

West Point from Castle Rock, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1882 - 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Rock on a Hilltop, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Rock on a Hilltop, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–April 1889

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. 1342 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7483629 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 2026-08-29 06:17 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.