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. 12 shown for “Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Church” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:41 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Buildings, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Exterior of Gothic Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Church

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · after 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Gothic Archway

Stage Design, Gothic Archway

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Gothic Hall

Stage Design: Gothic Hall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Church Interior, by Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841

Stage Design, Church Interior

Pietro Narducci, Italian, active 1809 - 1841 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Gothic Palace, Church, and Fortress, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Gothic Palace, Church, and Fortress

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Church Facade from a Loggia, I due Valdomiri by Felice Romani, music by Pietro de Winter. Performed at La Scala, Milan, 1818, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Church Facade from a Loggia, I due Valdomiri by Felice Romani, music by Pietro de Winter. Performed at La Scala, Milan, 1818

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage set, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage set

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · Early 19th 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3220107 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 2026-09-03 09:41 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.