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. 13 shown for “David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841” — 13 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Gilbert Stuart
David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Alexander Murray, Esq. of the United States Navy
David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

Madonna and Child with Six Saints
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) · late 1440s

Landing of Christopher Columbus
David Edwin, born Bath, England 1776-died Philadelphia, PA 1841 · n.d.

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Pitcher
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1813–ca. 1815

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:37 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.