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 “George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813” — 43 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo
Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Design for a Plaster Ceiling
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · n.d.

A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill
James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Design for an Oblong Ceiling
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · 1773

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery
James Gillray · March 13, 1807

Design for Library Ceiling, Benton House, Northumberland, England
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · ca. 1775

Design for a Square Ceiling
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · 1770–75

Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · 1780–90

Design for an Oblong Ceiling
George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813 · 1770–75

Senecio eremophilus Richardson
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1941

Senecio eremophilus Richardson
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Aug 1954

George Partridge Richardson
Unidentified · ca. 1835

Galerie métallique des grands hommes français (Great Men of France)
Artist not stated in the record · 1818

Senecio lugens Richardson
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1952

Andrew Jackson's Uniform Coat with Epaulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1812
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 414536 matched · 40 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:16 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.