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 “Willem van Swanenburg” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 13:14 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.
Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) with a court scene depicting a man being pardoned by a judge, plate XII from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) with a court scene depicting a man being pardoned by a judge, plate XII from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605

Public domainThe Met
The Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, Plate 5 from "Thronus Justitiae", by Christoffel van Sichem I, Netherlandish, ca. 1546–1624

The Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, Plate 5 from "Thronus Justitiae"

Christoffel van Sichem I, Netherlandish, ca. 1546–1624 · 1609

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, plate 4 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Christ Carrying the Cross, plate 4 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Portrait of Willem de Vos, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Artist not stated in the record · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Judgment, plate 13 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

The Last Judgment, plate 13 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1606

Public domainThe Met
Aizoon africanum (L.) Klak

Aizoon africanum (L.) Klak

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Oct 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, plate 5 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

The Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, plate 5 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Judge Bias Shedding Tears, plate 9 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

The Judge Bias Shedding Tears, plate 9 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susanna before Daniel, plate 3 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Susanna before Daniel, plate 3 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judgment of Solomon, plate 2 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Judgment of Solomon, plate 2 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page Set in an Architectural Frame with Allegorical figures and Christ, from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Title Page Set in an Architectural Frame with Allegorical figures and Christ, from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meeting of Moses and Jethro, plate 1 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

The Meeting of Moses and Jethro, plate 1 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Justice depicting a street scene with a shepherd giving a sheet of paper to a judge at left, who rejects it, plate 11 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Allegory of Justice depicting a street scene with a shepherd giving a sheet of paper to a judge at left, who rejects it, plate 11 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1972

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cambyses Commanding the Flaying of the Judge Sisamnes, plate 6 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

Cambyses Commanding the Flaying of the Judge Sisamnes, plate 6 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605–6

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Moonlit scene depicting the Areopagite judged of Athens, plate 8 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis...", by Willem van Swanenburg

A Moonlit scene depicting the Areopagite judged of Athens, plate 8 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

Willem van Swanenburg · 1605

Public domainThe Met
Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Bridsonia chamaedendrum (Kuntze) Verstraete & A.E. van Wyk

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1975

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. 179 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 33164 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 13:14 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.