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, Square with Public Building” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 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, Square with Public Building

Stage Design, Square with Public Building

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, Group of Antique Buildings, by Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840 · ca. 1800

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, View of Antique Town

Stage Design, View of Antique Town

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design, Mosque on Square, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Mosque on Square

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Architectural panels from the Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry B. Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect), by Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA

Western Methodist Book Concern Building, Chicago, Illinois (Harry Bergen Wheelock, architect)

Northwestern Terra Cotta, USA · ca. 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LA PLACE DES VICTOIRES, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PLACE DES VICTOIRES

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1686–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage design for a Square with Fountain, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Stage design for a Square with Fountain

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lazaretto at Hebron, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Lazaretto at Hebron, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 12-15, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LA PLACE ST. MARC à Venise, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA PLACE ST. MARC à Venise

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th 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. 865684 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 2026-09-05 07:03 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.