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. 14 shown for “Vincenz Georg Kininger” — 42 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:29 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.
Portrait of an old man with a beard, by Vincenz Georg Kininger

Portrait of an old man with a beard

Vincenz Georg Kininger · ca. 1787–1851

Public domainThe Met
Bromus erectus Huds.

Bromus erectus Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/6/96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47

Public domainThe Met
Bromus inermis Leyss.

Bromus inermis Leyss.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 26/6/96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chaerophyllum bulbosum L.

Chaerophyllum bulbosum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/6/96 to 27/7/96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Easter Sepulchre, by Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810

Design for an Easter Sepulchre

Vinzenz Fischer, German, 1729 - 1810 · ca. 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peucedanum rochelianum Heuff.

Peucedanum rochelianum Heuff.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ajuga laxmannii Benth.

Ajuga laxmannii Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Malcolmia pancicii Adamović

Malcolmia pancicii Adamović

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sesleria heufleriana Schur

Sesleria heufleriana Schur

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Galium schultesii Vest

Galium schultesii Vest

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Echium rubrum Forssk.

Echium rubrum Forssk.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Erysimum pannonicum Crantz

Erysimum pannonicum Crantz

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alyssum leucadeum Gussone

Alyssum leucadeum Gussone

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1912

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 189172 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 03:29 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.