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. 17 shown for “Cricket Game” — 45 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rural Sports or a Cricket Match Extraordinary
Thomas Rowlandson · October 10, 1811

Cricket Game
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Rural Sports or a Cricket Match Extraordinary
Thomas Rowlandson · October 10, 1811

Southern Mole Cricket, Mole Cricket, Mole Cricket
Artist not stated in the record · 1936

Case (Inrō) with Design of Crickets
Onko Takanaga (dates unknown) · 19th century

All United States Eleven
Bellew, Frank · 1856

Cricket, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Goodwin & Company · 1889

Insect Daimyo Procession
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

The Manirung Pass
Samuel Bourne · 1860s

Caleb Plummer and His Daughter, from "The Cricket on the Hearth"
Charles Dana Gibson, born Roxbury, MA 1867-died New York City 1944 · 1897-1905

Cricket cage and stand
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cricket batting, drive
Muybridge, Eadweard · 1884-1886

cricket cage and base
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Cricket
Artist not stated in the record · 1912

Tropical House Cricket
Artist not stated in the record · 1908

House Cricket
Artist not stated in the record · 1975

Handsome Bush Cricket
Artist not stated in the record · 1970
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 13838 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-28 05:46 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.