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 “Alfred Benjamin Wyon” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 05:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Daniel Maclise
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1875

UK Post Office Notice with attached 2d postal stationery specimen
Artist not stated in the record · April 1841

In Memory of the Visit of the Shah of Persia to the City of London, June 20, 1873
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1873

Atriplex confertifolia (Torr. & Frém.) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1965

In Memory of the Visit of the Turkish Sultan Abdul-Aziz to London, 1867
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1867

To Commemorate the Arrival in London of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to Wed Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in March, 1863
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1863

Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's for the Recovery of the Prince of Wales from Typhoid Fever, February 27, 1872
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1872

Sydney International Exhibition Medal
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1879

Victoria Calcutta Exhibition, 1883–84
Alfred Benjamin Wyon · 1883–84

The Opening of the New Council Chamber of the Guildhall, London, October 2, 1884
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1884

Princess Alexandra Welcomed to England
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1863

Opening of the New Buildings of the City of London School by the Prince and Princess of Wales, December 12, 1882
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1882

To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1866

To Cyrus W. Field from the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, on the Laying of the Atlantic Cable, 1866
Joseph Shepherd Wyon · 1866
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. 120 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 37904 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 05:23 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.