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 “Sketch for design for label” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:16 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.
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for design for label

Sketch for design for label

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for Frames, by Leblois, Italian

Sketches for Frames

Leblois, Italian · 1770–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apostle plate with inscription of Saint Phillip

Apostle plate with inscription of Saint Phillip

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Designs for or Sketches of a Mausoleum, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for or Sketches of a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Frames, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Frames

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ceiling Decorations with Figural Sketch and Anecdote, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Ceiling Decorations with Figural Sketch and Anecdote

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for the Representation of an Eagle Over a Thunderbolt

Sketches for the Representation of an Eagle Over a Thunderbolt

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Sketch and Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Sketch and Design for Woven or Embroidered Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of Saint Anthony Abbot, by Carlo Innocenzo Carloni

The Glorification of Saint Anthony Abbot

Carlo Innocenzo Carloni

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of Winged Figures for Ascension, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Sketch of Winged Figures for Ascension

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune and the Winds, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Neptune and the Winds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1783

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cooper Monument, by Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906

Design for Cooper Monument

Stanford White, American, 1853 - 1906 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820

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. 2926 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 7484733 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-31 23:16 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.