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 “Charles Turner, British, 1773–1857” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Dunstanburgh Castle, from "Liber Studiorum," part III
Charles Turner, British, 1773–1857 · 1808

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Morpeth, Northumberland, from the Liber Studiorum
James Mallord William Turner, British, 1775–1851 · 1809

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

Portrait of James Gillray
Artist not stated in the record · 1819

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Portrait of Washington Irving, Esqr.
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857

The Lake of Zug
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Mrs. Littleton
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.

Salisbury Plain with Old Sarum in the distance, Wiltshire
William Turner of Oxford · 1835–45

Rembrandt's Mill
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · ca. 1823

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Grimmia maritima Turner & R. Scott
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1857

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Portrait of a Mughal ruler
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Ann Dorothy Martineau
Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857 · 1833

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
Daniël Mijtens · 1629

Washington Irving
Charles Turner, 1774 - 1857 · 1825

The Farm-Yard with the Cock, part IV, plate 17 from "Liber Studiorum"
Joseph Mallord William Turner · March 29, 1809

London Bridge
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1881

Lake of Thun, Swiss (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 15)
Joseph Mallord William Turner · June 10, 1808

The Taming of the Shrew
Charles Rolls, English, born 1800-died 1857
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. 149 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. 93 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 23:48 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.