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 “Stage Design, Prison Interior” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:49 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.
Roman Interior, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Roman Interior

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior, by Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Italian, 1751 - 1831

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Italian, 1751 - 1831 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius, by Bernardo Daddi

Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius

Bernardo Daddi · ca. 1338–40

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by Herman Doomer

Cabinet

Herman Doomer · ca. 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dark Prison (Carcere Oscura), by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dark Prison (Carcere Oscura)

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1790–99

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior

Stage Design, Prison Interior

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, with Four other Drawings, by Tranquillo Orsi

Stage Design, with Four other Drawings

Tranquillo Orsi

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison Interior with the Death of Socrates, by Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843

Stage Design, Prison Interior with the Death of Socrates

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, Italian, 1774–1843 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design of a Prison Interior, by Michelangelo Fasano, Italian, active 18th century

Stage Design of a Prison Interior

Michelangelo Fasano, Italian, active 18th century · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set, by Carlo Zucchi the Younger

Design for a Stage Set

Carlo Zucchi the Younger · ca. 1748–95

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Prison, by Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896

Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Luigi Ricci, Italian, 1823 - 1896 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Stage Design, Interior of Prison

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Prison Court

Stage Design, Interior of Prison Court

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design for the Interior of Prison, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage Design for the Interior of Prison

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior, by Eugène Cicéri

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Church Interior

Eugène Cicéri · 1830–90

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of a Prison

Stage Design, Interior of a Prison

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Set of a Room Interior with Receding Perspective, by Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Stage Set of a Room Interior with Receding Perspective

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century · 1700–1780

Public domainThe Met
Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

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. 141 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 669775 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 11:49 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.