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. 17 shown for “Saint Erhard” — 48 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 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.
Saint Erhard

Saint Erhard

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John, from the Passau Missal (Missale Pataviense), by Hans Burgkmair

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John, from the Passau Missal (Missale Pataviense)

Hans Burgkmair · 1505

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La Peregrination en Terre Sainte (Pilgrimage to the Holy Land), by Nicolas Le Huen

La Peregrination en Terre Sainte (Pilgrimage to the Holy Land)

Nicolas Le Huen · 1488

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Valentine, Stephen, and Maximilian, the Patron Saints of Passau, by Hans Burgkmair

Saints Valentine, Stephen, and Maximilian, the Patron Saints of Passau

Hans Burgkmair · 1503–5

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with the Patron Saints of Constance, by Hans Burgkmair

Virgin and Child with the Patron Saints of Constance

Hans Burgkmair

Public domainThe Met
Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Ouratea gigantophylla (Erhard) Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Great Rosary, by Master MTR of Nuremberg, German

The Great Rosary

Master MTR of Nuremberg, German · 1519

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olearia magniflora (F. Muell.) F. Muell. ex Benth.

Olearia magniflora (F. Muell.) F. Muell. ex Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Sep 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stuckenia striata (Ruiz & Pav.) Holub

Stuckenia striata (Ruiz & Pav.) Holub

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Illustration for Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock". vol.1, p. 141, by Alexander Pope

Illustration for Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock". vol.1, p. 141

Alexander Pope · 1825 - 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salver with Four Continents, by Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757

Salver with Four Continents

Johann Erhard Heuglin II, German, 1687 – 1757 · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Study for an Altarpiece: Christ with Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, and Saint Francis

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Chaires de l'église de Saint-Germain et Saint-Paul (Album of Pulpits from the Saint-Germain and Saint-Paul Church)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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 · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 42991 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 11:06 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.