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. 15 shown for “Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)” — 52 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1862

The Maniac (Sheet Music Cover)
Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

The Golden State Entering New York Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1854

Marine View
William Sharp, n.d. · 1847-1848

Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE

A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew (Sheet Music Cover)
Fitz Henry Lane, born Gloucester, MA 1804-died Gloucester, MA 1865

Commode à vantaux
David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Daguerreotype self-portrait of Henry Fitz Jr.
Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1839-11

The Brioche
Edouard Manet · 1870

Fitz-Greene Halleck
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1831-33

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88

Daguerreotype of Baltimore Street Scene
Fitz, Henry Jr. · 1840-1844

Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866

Bullfight in a Divided Ring
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada
Edouard Manet · 1862
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 201274 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:11 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.