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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 “Charles W. Burton” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:04 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.
View of the Capitol, by Charles W. Burton

View of the Capitol

Charles W. Burton · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Wheeler and the Court Fight, by Clifford Kennedy Berryman, 2 Feb 1869 - 11 Dec 1949

Wheeler and the Court Fight

Clifford Kennedy Berryman, 2 Feb 1869 - 11 Dec 1949 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
United States Branch Bank, Wall Street, by Charles W. Burton

United States Branch Bank, Wall Street

Charles W. Burton · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature, by Unidentified

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature

Unidentified · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56), by Peter Peck

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45

Public domainThe Met
Myrcia orientalis (B. Holst & M.L. Kawas.) G.P. Burton & E. Lucas

Myrcia orientalis (B. Holst & M.L. Kawas.) G.P. Burton & E. Lucas

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"

Broadside in support of the "Danville Circular"

Artist not stated in the record · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, by baron François Gérard

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

baron François Gérard · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Primula vulgaris Huds.

Primula vulgaris Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
Samolus valerandi L.

Samolus valerandi L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Primula vulgaris Huds.

Primula vulgaris Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Ptolemy II or III

Head of Ptolemy II or III

Artist not stated in the record · 246–222 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis stolonifera L.

Agrostis stolonifera L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bromus tectorum L.

Bromus tectorum L.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/5/41

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis gigantea Roth

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Funeral Ritual in a Garden, Tomb of Nakhtmin

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921; original ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seligeria pusilla (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.

Seligeria pusilla (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 5010 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1024312 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-09-07 11:04 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.