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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 “Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
The Etruscan Cloth, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

The Etruscan Cloth

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1850

Public domainThe Met
Alfred Maurer, by Alfred Stieglitz, 1 Jan 1864 - 13 Jul 1946

Alfred Maurer

Alfred Stieglitz, 1 Jan 1864 - 13 Jul 1946 · 1915 (printed later)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital of a Column with Anthemion, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Capital of a Column with Anthemion

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland), by Unidentified Artist

Winslow Homer (with six other artists, including E. L. Henry and Alfred C. Howland)

Unidentified Artist · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Order from Rome, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Composite Order from Rome

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman with Fan, by Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932

Young Woman with Fan

Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932 · (c. 1902)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved Stone Ornamental Panel and Classical Female Figure, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Carved Stone Ornamental Panel and Classical Female Figure

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Copying in the Louvre, by Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932

Copying in the Louvre

Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932 · (1900-1902)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doric Order from Athens, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Doric Order from Athens

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Union Army Officers, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Union Army Officers

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital of a Column with Anthemion, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Capital of a Column with Anthemion

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Woman in Black, by Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932

Woman in Black

Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932 · (c. 1904)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Carved Stone Ornamental Panels, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Two Carved Stone Ornamental Panels

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
At the Window, by Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932

At the Window

Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932 · (1899-1900)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinthian Order from Tivoli, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Corinthian Order from Tivoli

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by William Ordway Partridge, born Paris, France 1861-died New York City 1930

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

William Ordway Partridge, born Paris, France 1861-died New York City 1930 · modeled by 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitruvian Tuscan Order, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Vitruvian Tuscan Order

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
The Model, by Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932

The Model

Alfred Henry Maurer, American, b. New York City, 1868–1932 · (c. 1902)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grapes and Vine-leaves, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Grapes and Vine-leaves

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for Bookcover, Sir Roland Ashton, by Lady Long, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Design for Bookcover, Sir Roland Ashton, by Lady Long

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

Public domainThe Met
Four Lithographed Bookcovers, One for Our Antipodes, by Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

Four Lithographed Bookcovers, One for Our Antipodes

Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] · 1845–70

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. 84 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. 128 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 2026-08-27 21:05 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.