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 “Viola hirta L.” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:12 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.
Viola, by Benjamin Banks

Viola

Benjamin Banks · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore, by Giovanni Grancino

Viola d'Amore

Giovanni Grancino · 1701

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Apr 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola, by August Martin Gemünder

Viola

August Martin Gemünder · 1893

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola, by John C. Harris

Viola

John C. Harris · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola

Viola

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore, by Johannes Florenus Guidantus

Viola d'Amore

Johannes Florenus Guidantus · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bass Viola da Gamba, by John Rose

Bass Viola da Gamba

John Rose · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore, by Nicolaus Langer

Viola d'Amore

Nicolaus Langer · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore

Viola d'Amore

Artist not stated in the record · 1739

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore, by Joseph Gagliano (1742–1820)

Viola d'Amore

Joseph Gagliano (1742–1820) · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore

Viola d'Amore

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola d'Amore

Viola d'Amore

Artist not stated in the record · 1733

Public domainThe Met
Viola hirta L.

Viola hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1914

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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1301244 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 08:12 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.