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 “Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598” — 63 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:24 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.
Enoch and his family surrounding a meal table and holding their hands in a gesture of prayer; behind them is the open end of house; to the right a woman hands out bread to a child, young man, and old man, by Johann Theodor de Bry

Enoch and his family surrounding a meal table and holding their hands in a gesture of prayer; behind them is the open end of house; to the right a woman hands out bread to a child, young man, and old man

Johann Theodor de Bry · ca. 1580–1623

Public domainThe Met
Noble and Lady, by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Noble and Lady

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Avaritia, by Theodor de Bry

Avaritia

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters, by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle, by Theodor de Bry

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

Theodor de Bry · 1592–93

Public domainThe Met
St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard

St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard

Artist not stated in the record · 1645–1652

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle, by Theodor de Bry

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Noble on Horseback, by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Noble on Horseback

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with Half-Length Figure Holding Cornucopias, by Theodor de Bry

Frieze with Half-Length Figure Holding Cornucopias

Theodor de Bry · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Plate, from Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna (Emblems worth knowing noble and common men), by Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598

Plate, from Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna (Emblems worth knowing noble and common men)

Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · 1592–1593

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Death of Lucretia, by Theodor de Bry

Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Death of Lucretia

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Plate 1, from a set of four frieze designs

Plate 1, from a set of four frieze designs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blackwork Design for Broochs, Bracelets and Pendants, by Theodor de Bry

Blackwork Design for Broochs, Bracelets and Pendants

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler, by Theodor de Bry

Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with Two Female Figures Holding Books, by Theodor de Bry

Frieze with Two Female Figures Holding Books

Theodor de Bry · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze with a Putto Holding a Platform, by Theodor de Bry

Frieze with a Putto Holding a Platform

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Good Shepherd, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler, by Theodor de Bry

The Good Shepherd, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)

(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)

Artist not stated in the record · 1598

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse Copy of a Design for a Buckle with an Owl, by Theodor de Bry

Reverse Copy of a Design for a Buckle with an Owl

Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Public domainThe Met
(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)

(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)

Artist not stated in the record · 1598

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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 39 matched · 39 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 19:24 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.