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 “Diplomatic Medal, United States, 1876 (U.S. Mint copy dies)” — 53 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 07:53 UTC · fetched live for this request

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.

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met

Diplomatic Medal, United States, 1876 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Public domainThe Met

Diplomatic Medal, United States, 1790-1791 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1790-1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Joan of Arc

Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Public domainThe Met

Diplomatic Medal, United States, 1790-1791 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1790 - 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met

Henry Lee at Paulus Hook, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies: Original obverse die paired with later Barber reverse)

United States Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

United States Ten-dollar Gold Piece

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1906–7, gold coin 1910

Public domainThe Met

Francois Louis Teissedre de Fleury at Stony Point, United States, 1880 (U.S. Mint copy dies 1880)

United States Mint · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Roadside Halt

Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826

Public domainThe Met

John Eager Howard at the Cowpens, United States, 1781/1881 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Saint Roch

Francesco Francia · 1502

Public domainThe Met

Henry Lee at Paulus Hook , United States, 1880 (U.S. Mint copy dies 1880)

United States Mint · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met

William Washington at the Cowpens, United States, 1781 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder Abriss der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten: enthaltend für 1784 die Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-America [General historical pocketbook, summarizing noteworthy world news of 1784, with a History of the Revolution in North America]

Matthias Christian Sprengel · 1784–87

Public domainThe Met

John Eager Howard at the Cowpens, United States, 1781/1881 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Dr. Brian Walton (born about 1600, died 1661)

John Hoskins · 1657

Public domainThe Met

Francois Louis Teissedre de Fleury at Stony Point, United States, 1779/1880 (U.S. Mint copy dies 1880)

United States Mint · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met

John Eager Howard at the Cowpens, United States, 1781 (U.S. Mint copy dies)

United States Mint · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 125176)

Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1901

Public domainThe Met

Francois Louis Teissedre de Fleury at Stony Point, United States, 1779/1880 (U.S. Mint copy dies 1880)

United States Mint · 1880

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 1 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. 5743890 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-06 07:53 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.

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Section 01Character index0 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.