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. 11 shown for “Esaias von Hulsen” — 20 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 01:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Square Blackwork Design in Silhouette Style with Schweifwerk and Grotesque Figures
Esaias von Hulsen · 1617

Ornament Print with Schweifwerk and Two (Allegorical?) Figures
Esaias von Hulsen · ca. 1615–20

I) Repraesentation Der Furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspil ..Fürst und Herr Johan Friederich Hertzog zu Württemberg und Teckh.. Neuwgebornen Sohn Friderich .. etc. Fürstlicher Kindtauffen .. 10 biss 17 Marty Anno 1616
Esaias von Hulsen · ca. 1616

La Perspective
Salomon de Caus · 1612

Portrait of Gideon a Laudohn, Nobbleman of Livonia (Latvia)
Johann Esaias Nilson · ca. 1740–1760

Pair of Rowel Spurs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–60

Aquamanile in the Form of a Ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250–1350

The Adoration of the Magi
Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Plaque with Censing Angels
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1170–80

Christ on the Cross
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1553

Ring
Artist not stated in the record · 10th–11th century
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. 20 matched · 20 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 01:04 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.