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 “Urs Graf” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:56 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bust of a Bearded Old Man, by Urs Graf

Bust of a Bearded Old Man

Urs Graf · 1521

Public domainThe Met
Standard Bearer, by Urs Graf

Standard Bearer

Urs Graf · 1500–30

Public domainThe Met
Margarita Philosophica, by Urs Graf

Margarita Philosophica

Urs Graf · 16 March 1504 or 17 April 1504

Public domainThe Met
Der text des Passions oder leydens christi auß den vier evangelisten zusammen in ein Sinn bracht mit schönen figuren, by Urs Graf

Der text des Passions oder leydens christi auß den vier evangelisten zusammen in ein Sinn bracht mit schönen figuren

Urs Graf · 1507

Public domainThe Met
II) Der Ritter vom Turm, von den exenplen der Gotzfurcht und erberkeit., by Michael Furter

II) Der Ritter vom Turm, von den exenplen der Gotzfurcht und erberkeit.

Michael Furter · 1499, 1512, 1513

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche

Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 90–100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi

Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Saint Catherine Leaning on a Sword, by Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Saint Catherine Leaning on a Sword

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1503–4

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug), by Meidias Painter

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Angels Restrain the Four Winds; the Angel Ascends from the Rising Sun

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Angels Restrain the Four Winds; the Angel Ascends from the Rising Sun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Lamb at the Foot of the Cross, Flanked by Two Angels; The Calling of Saint John with the Enthroned Christ flanked by Angels and a Man Holding a Book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 18:56 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.