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. 21 shown for “George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885” — 51 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
George Edward Perine · ca. 1890

Albert Sidney Johnston
George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1867

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

John McCloskey
George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · 1865

Portrait of an Old Woman
Jacob Backer

Richard Stoddert Ewell
J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

Taking Up a Fare – "All the World's A Stage"
John Doyle · May 24, 1837

Sterling Price
George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · c. 1867

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633

Robert E. Lee
J. L. Giles, active c. 1861 - 1881 · c. 1868

Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

John Charles Fremont
George Edward Perine, 1837 - 1885 · c. 1865

Man with a Beard
Rembrandt

Winfield Scott and Generals
H. B. Hall · 1866

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Book page with reproductions of Reconstruction-era prints
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874 and 1876; printed later

Ariadne
George Frederic Watts · 1894

Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower
George E. Perine, born South Orange, NJ 1837-died Brooklyn, NY 1885 · n.d.

The Legend of the Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1892

Robt. B. Elliot
George Edward Perrine, 9 Jul 1837 - 3 Feb 1885 · c. 1874-85

Ulysses S. Grant and Staff
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 364572 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 2026-09-05 06:38 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.