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 and Abigail” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
David and Abigail
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Abigail Adams
Artist not stated in the record · 1804

David
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1408–10

Abigail Powers Fillmore
Unidentified Artist · c. 1840

David and Abigail
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1509

Abigail Goodwin
Unidentified Artist · 1872

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Mrs. John Adams
Unidentified Artist · 1855

Head of King David
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1145

Abigail Shaw Barclay (nee Shaw)
Unidentified · ca. 1810

Abigail and David
Artist not stated in the record · third quarter 17th century
Mrs. William S. Smith
Unidentified Artist · 1855

Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Mary Abigail Willing Coale
Thomas Sully, born Horncastle, England 1783-died Philadelphia, PA 1872 · 1809

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Songs of the Hutchinson Family
G. and W. Endicott Lithography, active c. 1841 - c. 1849 · 1843

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna
Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

White House China of John and Abigail Adams, Arts and Industries Building
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1951

Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath
Artist not stated in the record · 629–30

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1789

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1772

Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630

Coronation of Womanhood
Kurz & Allison Lithography Company, c. 1880 - 1899 · 1884
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. 8362 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1528363 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 20:11 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.