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Images / art

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 “Design for a Library Wall” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:19 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Library Table, by Herter Brothers

Library Table

Herter Brothers · 1879–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Library Wall

Design for a Library Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dining room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam

Dining room from Lansdowne House

Robert Adam · 1766–69

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Library Wall

Design for a Library Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall with Doorway, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Wall with Doorway, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", by Georges Seurat

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

Georges Seurat · 1884

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Window Wall Decoration, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Window Wall Decoration, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the North Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Doorway and Bookcase, probably for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Doorway and Bookcase, probably for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Library Table, by Rose Valley Shops

Library Table

Rose Valley Shops · 1904

Public domainThe Met
Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Wall Decoration for the South Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1815–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Interior of a Library, by Unknown, English

Interior of a Library

Unknown, English · 1830s–40s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Church Wall, by Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831

Designs for a Church Wall

Francesco Manno, Italian, 1754 - 1831 · 1754–1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pratiqve de la Guerre. Contenant l'usage de l'Artillerie, Bombes & Mortiers, Feux Artificiels & Petards, Sappes & Mines, Ponts & Pontons, Tranchees & Travaux, auec l'ordre des Assauts aux Breches. Ensemble vn traite des Feux de Ioye/par le sievr de Malthvs…, by Francis Malthus

Pratiqve de la Guerre. Contenant l'usage de l'Artillerie, Bombes & Mortiers, Feux Artificiels & Petards, Sappes & Mines, Ponts & Pontons, Tranchees & Travaux, auec l'ordre des Assauts aux Breches. Ensemble vn traite des Feux de Ioye/par le sievr de Malthvs…

Francis Malthus · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets, by Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754

Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets

Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 2677 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2109297 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 2026-09-03 21:19 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.