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. 20 shown for “Franz Edmund Weirotter” — 49 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Visit to Rome in 1764
Franz Edmund Weirotter · 1764

The Camp in the Woods, from "XII Vue de la Normandie..."
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Harbor Scene
Joseph Vernet · ca. 1764

A Small Fort on the Rhine Near Cleves
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

Harbor Scene
Joseph Vernet · ca. 1764

Pont Rustique
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

The Cloisters Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–60

A Castle in Ruins Upon the Banks of the Loire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

The Crowning with Thorns
Lucas van Leyden · ca. 1520–30

Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait
Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938 · 1937

Reliquary Chasse
Artist not stated in the record · 1207–13

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Ford Madox Brown · 1872

Edmund Kirby Smith
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

Triptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
Master Pertoldus · 1494

Edmund Kirby Smith
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861

The Annunciation
South Netherlandish Painter

Edmund Ruffin
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861

Edmund Randolph
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Edmund Ruffin
Edward Anthony, 31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888 · c. 1861
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 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. 8261 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 21:01 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.