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. 15 shown for “Chief Etchers and Best Italian (Wilton House Album)” — 43 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 23:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chief Etchers and Best Italian (Wilton House Album)
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century binding

Vue de la Maison de M. Le Doux (View of Mr. Le Doux's House)
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand · 1787–92

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

L'architecture française, ou recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des eglises, palais, hôtels et maisons particulières de Paris, et des chasteaux et maisons de campagne ou de plaisance des environs, et de plusieurs autres endroits de France (French Architecture, or Album of Plans, Elevations, Sections and Profiles of the Churches and Townhouses of Paris, and of the Châteaux and Country Houses of the Surroundings, and from Several Other Places in France)
Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742 · 1727

Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore
Macchi S.A.

Lobelia spicata Lam.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1940

Asclepias tuberosa L. subsp. tuberosa
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1940

Vases, from Le Blanc 4.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

House on the Ridge
Chauncey F. Ryder, born Danbury, CT 1868-died Wilton, NH 1949 · ca. 1920

Napoleonic Italy album page with folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · 1808

Book
Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1800

Sketchbook Page: Italian Maple Leaf
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1874

Nouveau Livre de Desseins Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Tijou
Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712 · 1693

The Academy of Plato
Salvator Rosa, Italian, 1615 - 1673 · 1662
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1487189 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-30 23:19 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.