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 “Darley, Felix Octavius Carr” — 60 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
John Eliot Preaching to the Indians
Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Felix Octavius Carr Darley
James Wallace Black, 10 Feb 1825 - 5 Jan 1896 · n.d.a.

General George B. McClellan
John Quincy Adams Ward · 1864

Wyoming
Holbrooke, W. H. · 1852

Allegorical Cartouche
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1842–88

Felix Darley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

A Rowdy Party
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1845

Untitled (broken shoe)
Stephen Alonzo Schoff, born Danville, VT 1818-died Norfolk, CT 1904 · n.d.

"On the Corniche Road," an early idea for "Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1866

The Encounter
James King, n.d. · 1885

Uncle Toby and the Fly, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1847

Felix Darley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1852

Felix Darley
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

A train in a landscape
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1845–88

John Pendleton Kennedy
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888 · c. 1861

Parson Wells and his Wife, from Judd's "Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1856

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Telling His Fabulous Story
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1879
George Brinton McClellan
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 23 Jun 1822 - 27 Mar 1888 · c. 1862

Triumph of Patriotism– Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783
Alexander Hay Ritchie · 1858

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Serving Liquor to the Strange Men in the Mountains
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · ca. 1879

(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip Amusing Children
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, born Philadelphia, PA 1822-died Claymont, DE 1888 · 1848
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 9673 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-01 02:06 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.