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. 23 shown for “Satirical Print: The Suitor” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:12 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.
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532

Public domainThe Met
Satirical Print: The Suitor

Satirical Print: The Suitor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci), by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci)

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · before 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Immaculate Conception, by Guido Reni

The Immaculate Conception

Guido Reni · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Transubstantiantion Satirized, by Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800

Transubstantiantion Satirized

Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800 · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jesus on the Mount of Olives, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Jesus on the Mount of Olives

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Der Sündenfall des XIX Jahrhunderts, by Lotte

Der Sündenfall des XIX Jahrhunderts

Lotte

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The scourging, by Wenceslaus Hollar

The scourging

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jesus before Pilate, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Jesus before Pilate

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
MOMUS, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

MOMUS

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1723-1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The washing of hands, by Wenceslaus Hollar

The washing of hands

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The mocking of Christ, by Wenceslaus Hollar

The mocking of Christ

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jesus confronting his detractors, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Jesus confronting his detractors

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Oratory Chapel

Oratory Chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carrying the cross, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Carrying the cross

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
Dees Aap Zwetstop Zyn Zalve, by Pool, M (atthys)?

Dees Aap Zwetstop Zyn Zalve

Pool, M (atthys)?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jesus before Annas, by Wenceslaus Hollar

Jesus before Annas

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52

Public domainThe Met
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. 3294 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1218456 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 05:12 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.