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. 21 shown for “Virgin” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:15 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.
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Psidium amplexicaule Pers.

Psidium amplexicaule Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin, by Joan Avesta

Virgin

Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, The Virgin Enthroned and the Virgin and Child Enthroned, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Sketches, The Virgin Enthroned and the Virgin and Child Enthroned

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virginal

Virginal

Artist not stated in the record · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Solanum polygamum Vahl

Solanum polygamum Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular Octave Virginal

Rectangular Octave Virginal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Virgin and Child

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century (?) or later

Public domainThe Met
Birth of the Virgin

Birth of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Coccoloba swartzii Meisn.

Coccoloba swartzii Meisn.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Apr 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin

Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Psidium amplexicaule Pers.

Psidium amplexicaule Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Plaque from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Gracilaria foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen

Gracilaria foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enamel from a Reliquary, by Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

Enamel from a Reliquary

Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Enthroned Virgin and Child

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–1140

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. 3222 matched · 24 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. 16046 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:15 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.