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, Portico with Monument” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:23 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, Portico with Monument

Stage Design, Portico with Monument

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Sepulchral Hall

Stage Design, Sepulchral Hall

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Exterior of Palace

Stage Design, Exterior of Palace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, A Porticoed Bridge, by Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826

Stage Design, A Porticoed Bridge

Angelo Toselli, ca. 1765? – 1826 · 1815–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament, by D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647

Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament

D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Fantasy: Bridge and Monuments, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Bridge and Monuments

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · 1745–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Stairs by the Four Posts, by Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808

The Stairs by the Four Posts

Hubert Robert, French, 1733 – 1808 · 1810–29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Martin's, by Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926

Saint Martin's

Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Stage Design, Portico with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Stage Design, Portico with Buildings

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 840106 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 2026-09-05 05:23 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.