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 “Francis Wheatley” — 15 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:00 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.

The Saithwaite Family
Francis Wheatley · ca. 1785

A Fair – A Group of Gypsies – Men and Women in Rustic Clothes in Front of Two Makeshift Tents
Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

Knives, Scissors, and Razors to Grind
Giovanni Vendramini · 1795

A Bacchante
Thomas Rowlandson · 1787

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter
Thomas Rowlandson · 1785–95

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter
Thomas Rowlandson · 1785–95

Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on Rocks and Smoking a Pipe, Next to a Standing Young Woman, with a Second Woman Behind
Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on the Ground Resting an Elbow on a Fishing Basket, Another Man Opposite Mending a Sail, and a Woman Standing Between Them Carrying a Basket on Her Back
Thomas Rowlandson · 1786

A New Love Song only ha'penny a piece
Anthony Cardon · 1796

Florizel, Perdita, etc. in the Shepherd's Cot (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3)
James Fittler · August 1, 1792

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774

Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
John Raphael Smith · March 1, 1774
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 0 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 2026-08-28 14:00 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.