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 “The Visitation” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:29 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 Visitation, by Master Heinrich of Constance

The Visitation

Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

Public domainThe Met
The Visitation

The Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · 1540–1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with the Visitation

Panel with the Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mankato, Minnesota Owney tag

Mankato, Minnesota Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · June 17, 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · 1444

Public domainThe Met
The Visitation

The Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · 1591

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Visitation, by Domingos António de Sequeira

Visitation

Domingos António de Sequeira · 1768–1837

Public domainThe Met
The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin"

Artist not stated in the record · before 1506

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with the Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
The Visitation, from the Life of the Virgin series

The Visitation, from the Life of the Virgin series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1506

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation, by Abraham de Bruyn

The Visitation

Abraham de Bruyn · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Study of the Visitation, After Peter Paul Rubens, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Study of the Visitation, After Peter Paul Rubens

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)

Artist not stated in the record · 860–880

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation, by Ercole Procaccini The Younger

The Visitation

Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
View of Union Square, New York

View of Union Square, New York

Artist not stated in the record · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation

The Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Saulpaugh Hotel Owney tag

Saulpaugh Hotel Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation

The Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Tilton, New Hampshire Owney tag

Tilton, New Hampshire Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · May 2, 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation, by Master ES

The Visitation

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Cincinnati, Ohio Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · April 12, 1892

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. 3209 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. 1184984 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-29 09:29 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.