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 “David Claypoole Johnston” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lock on the Understanding, Heavy Wet, etc.
David Claypoole Johnston · 1832

David Claypoole Johnston Self-Portrait
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1830

At the Waterfall
David Claypoole Johnston · ca. 1850

William F. Johnson
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1830-37

A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston
David Claypoole Johnston · 1830

Thomas S. Hamblin
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering
David Claypoole Johnston · 1830

John Bard
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1828

Grand Fantastical Parade, New-York, December 2, 1833
David Claypoole Johnston · 1833

Lola Has Come!
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1852

Plate
David Spinner · ca. 1800

Washington Allston
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1843

Covered bowl
David Haring · ca. 1830–40

Jefferson Davis
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · c. 1863
![[Newhaven Fishwives], by Hill and Adamson](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP352694.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Newhaven Fishwives]
Hill and Adamson · ca. 1845

Lola Coming
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1852

Cornelius Vanderbilt I
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1882

John Jeffries
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1828

Rustic Interior
David Ryckaert III

Henry Finn and Thomas Kilner
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826

The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus
David Ryckaert III

A Beautiful Goblet of White-House Champagne
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1840

Peasants Dancing and Feasting
David Teniers the Younger · ca. 1660

Daniel Webster
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1831
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. 62 matched · 24 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. 94631 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 07:39 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.