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. 18 shown for “Christina Georgina Rossetti” — 48 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:44 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 Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
Christina Georgina Rossetti · 1866

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

Golden head by golden head, for "The Goblin Market"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1861

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

Buy from us with a golden curl, for "The Goblin Market"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1861–62

Apoclada simplex McClure & L.B. Sm. in Reitz
Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1990

Buy from Us with a Golden Curl (frontispiece to "Goblin Market and other Poems" by Christina Rossetti)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1862

Rossetti's House
Joseph Pennell, American, active England, 1857–1926 · 1906

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 1959

Two Hares
William Bell Scott · 1865–90
Chrysopogon nigritanus (Benth.) Veldkamp
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1959

Globularia incanescens Viv.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1891

Aristida adscensionis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1959

Georgina Linen Ryerson
Andrew W. Jordan, c. 1805 - ? · c. 1881

The Princess from the Land of Porcelain (La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine)
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · 1863-1865

Eremopogon foveolatus (Delile) Stapf
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1959

Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1887
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 941 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-02 06:44 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.