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. 13 shown for “Tiberio Titi” — 41 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:36 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.
Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Sick Man (recto); Partial Figural Studies Based on the Composition on the Recto (verso), by Tiberio Titi

Saint Anthony of Padua Healing a Sick Man (recto); Partial Figural Studies Based on the Composition on the Recto (verso)

Tiberio Titi · 1590–1600

Public domainThe Met
Erica arborea L.

Erica arborea L.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Centaurea cineraria L.

Centaurea cineraria L.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White-eared Titi Monkey

White-eared Titi Monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:09:20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White-eared Titi Monkey

White-eared Titi Monkey

Artist not stated in the record · 2018:11:14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limonium cumanum Kuntze

Limonium cumanum Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agrostis gigantea Roth

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silene tenoreana Colla

Silene tenoreana Colla

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galium saccharatum All.

Galium saccharatum All.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Asperula tomentosa Ten.

Asperula tomentosa Ten.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aeschynomene americana L. var. americana

Aeschynomene americana L. var. americana

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacobaea maritima subsp. bicolor (Willd.) B. Nord. & Greuter

Jacobaea maritima subsp. bicolor (Willd.) B. Nord. & Greuter

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ageratum houstonianum Mill.

Ageratum houstonianum Mill.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1988

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 86 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 11:36 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.