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. 12 shown for “Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Covent Garden Theatre, Interior
John Bluck, British, 1791–1832 · 1808

Eschutcheon
A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1845

Pair of finger plates
A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1845

Escutcheon
A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1845

Tudor Rose and Fleur de Lis
Scott and Co. · 1848–60

Sidewall
William Woolams and Co. · 1848

Waste Not Want Not
A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1850

Sidewall
William Woolams and Co. · ca. 1848

Sadlers Wells Theater from Ackermann's Repository
Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827 · 1809

Vauxhall Garden from Ackermann's Repository
Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827 · 1809

Royal Circus from Ackermann's Repository
Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827 · 1809

Interior of the Drury Land Theater, London
Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 1762–1832 · 1808
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1960 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.