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. 12 shown for “Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Artist not stated in the record · 1817–18

Design for Wall Decoration, Yellow (North) Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815

Design for Door and Overdoor with Fantastic Bird, probably for the Yellow Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

Design for Curtains, for the Music Room or the Banqueting Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1818–19

Design for Wall Decoration, Yellow (North) Drawing Room
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815

Design for the North Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1818–19

Window Decoration, Probably for the East Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1820

Proposed Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1817

Design for Wall Decoration, Blue (South) Drawing Room, Royal Pavillion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

Wall Decoration, Blue (South) Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1820

Design for the South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1817

Design for South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1818–19
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4351052 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 09:02 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.