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 “Dent” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Morte d'Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory · 1893

John Herbert Dent
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

After
Dent · 1790–1810

Julia Dent Grant
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1860

Before
Dent · 1790–1810

President Grant and His Family
Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906

Scholars at a Lecture
Dent · ca. 1800

General Grant and Family
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1867

The Distressed Poet
Dent · ca. 1800

General Grant and His Family
A. L. Weise & Co., active 1865 - 1912? · 1866

Moses Brought to Pharoah's Daughter
Dent · ca. 1800
Grant and His Family
William Sartain, 1843 - 1924 · 1867

The First Stage of Cruelty
Dent · ca. 1800

General Grant and His Family
Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906 · 1868

Paul Before Felix
Dent · ca. 1800

Acer rubrum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1928

The Company of Undertakers
Dent · ca. 1800

Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter
Montgomery P. Simons, 1816 - 1859 · 1846

A Chorus of Singers
Dent · ca. 1800

Julia Dent Grant
Unidentified Artist · c. 1864

The Bruiser
Dent · ca. 1800

General Grant and Family
Adam B. Walter, 1820 - 14 Oct 1875 · 1867

The Laughing Audience
Dent · ca. 1800

Frederick D. Grant
Barr & Young, active 1860s · n.d.a.
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. 199 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. 2003 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 00:22 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.