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 “Farmer, George” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:30 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.

Peach-Shaped Wine Pot or Tea Pot
Chinese · ca. 1644–83

Peasants
Georges Seurat · 1881–84

The Peasant Couple at Market
Albrecht Dürer · 1519

The Pigs Possessed:–or–the Broad Bottom'd Litter Running Headlong into Ye Sea of Perdition
James Gillray · April 18, 1807

Farmer carrying trussed sheep over his shoulder
Ralph Wood the Younger · ca. 1780

Spring
David Lucas · 1829

A Summerland
David Lucas · 1831

The Sign of the Four Alls
Thomas Rowlandson · 1810

French Peasant
Henry William Bunbury · April 1, 1771
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Farmers Bank, Grand Junction, Iowa], by George D. Thayer](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-251.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Farmers Bank, Grand Junction, Iowa]
George D. Thayer · 1880s–1890s

Banknote motif: Portrait on George Washington in a decorative panel
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1824–37

Farmer Blunt's Apology
Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1809
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. 148 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 15:30 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.