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. 17 shown for “Virgil Solis” — 62 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:18 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.
Landscape with Saint John the Evangelist, by Virgil Solis

Landscape with Saint John the Evangelist

Virgil Solis · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Goblet, from a series of eleven designs for goblets

Covered Goblet, from a series of eleven designs for goblets

Artist not stated in the record · 1530-1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bear Hunt, by Virgil Solis

Bear Hunt

Virgil Solis · mid 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Goblet, from a Series of Eleven Small Designs for Goblets

Design for a Goblet, from a Series of Eleven Small Designs for Goblets

Artist not stated in the record · 1530–1562

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arabesque Design on Dark Ground, by Virgil Solis

Arabesque Design on Dark Ground

Virgil Solis · 1534–1562

Public domainThe Met
Cacciaguida Greets Dante and Virgil, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Cacciaguida Greets Dante and Virgil

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Goblet With Owl, by Virgil Solis

Covered Goblet With Owl

Virgil Solis · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Atalanta and Hippomemes, from "Four Mythological Scenes", by Virgil Solis

Atalanta and Hippomemes, from "Four Mythological Scenes"

Virgil Solis · ca. 1535–62

Public domainThe Met
Sadleria cyatheoides Kaulf.

Sadleria cyatheoides Kaulf.

Artist not stated in the record · 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Halberdier walking left and carrying a halberd over his left shoulder, two tents beyond, from "Twelve soldiers of different ranks", by Virgil Solis

Halberdier walking left and carrying a halberd over his left shoulder, two tents beyond, from "Twelve soldiers of different ranks"

Virgil Solis · ca. 1530–62

Public domainThe Met
Classical Allegory with the arms of the Ochsenfelder, by Virgil Solis

Classical Allegory with the arms of the Ochsenfelder

Virgil Solis · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left, by Virgil Solis

A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left

Virgil Solis · 1549

Public domainThe Met
Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards, by Virgil Solis

Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards

Virgil Solis · ca. 1535–62

Public domainThe Met
Philosophy Enthroned, by Virgil Solis

Philosophy Enthroned

Virgil Solis · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Boats Rowed Through Inundated Ruins, by Virgil Solis

Boats Rowed Through Inundated Ruins

Virgil Solis · ca. 1550–62

Public domainThe Met
Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry, by Virgil Solis

Classizing Landscape with Three Figures, from a series of architectural ruins with figures, in reverse after prints by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau after Léonard Thiry

Virgil Solis · ca. 1550–62

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 3298 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:18 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.