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Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Havell, Jr., Robert” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken, by Robert Havell Jr.

View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken

Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)

Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River, by Robert Havell Jr.

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Whooping Crane, Grus Americana, by Havell, Jr., Robert

Whooping Crane, Grus Americana

Havell, Jr., Robert · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River, by Robert Havell Jr.

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River

Robert Havell Jr. · 1844

Public domainThe Met
Chuck-Wills Widow, Caprimulgus carolinensis. Brifs., Male. 1, Female. 2, Harlequin Snake

Chuck-Wills Widow, Caprimulgus carolinensis. Brifs., Male. 1, Female. 2, Harlequin Snake

Artist not stated in the record · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panoramic View of New York, from the East River, by Robert Havell Jr.

Panoramic View of New York, from the East River

Robert Havell Jr. · 1844

Public domainThe Met
American Robin, Turdus Migratorius, Male, 1. Female, 2. Young, 3., Chestnut oak. Quercus Vrinus

American Robin, Turdus Migratorius, Male, 1. Female, 2. Young, 3., Chestnut oak. Quercus Vrinus

Artist not stated in the record · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea Urn, by Paul Revere Jr.

Tea Urn

Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Public domainThe Met
Virginia Partridge, Perdix Virginiana. Lath., Male Adult, 1. Young, 2. Female Adult, 3. Young, 4. Very Young Birds, 5.

Virginia Partridge, Perdix Virginiana. Lath., Male Adult, 1. Young, 2. Female Adult, 3. Young, 4. Very Young Birds, 5.

Artist not stated in the record · 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prairie Titlark. Anthus hypogaeus [current name: American Pipit. Anthus rubescens], from "The Birds of America," plate 80 [later LXXX], by John James Audubon

Prairie Titlark. Anthus hypogaeus [current name: American Pipit. Anthus rubescens], from "The Birds of America," plate 80 [later LXXX]

John James Audubon · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Scarlet Ibis, Ibis Rubra Viell, 1. Adult, 2. Young Second Autumn, by Havell, Jr., Robert

Scarlet Ibis, Ibis Rubra Viell, 1. Adult, 2. Young Second Autumn

Havell, Jr., Robert · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hooded Warbler. Sylvia mitrata [current name: Hooded Warbler. Wilsonia citrina], from "The Birds of America," plate CX, by John James Audubon

Hooded Warbler. Sylvia mitrata [current name: Hooded Warbler. Wilsonia citrina], from "The Birds of America," plate CX

John James Audubon · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Hooping Crane. Grus Americana. Adult male., by Whatman Paper Company

Hooping Crane. Grus Americana. Adult male.

Whatman Paper Company · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pewee or Pewit Flycatcher. Muscicapa fusca [current name: Eastern Phoebe. Sayornis phoebe], from "The Birds of America," plate CXX, by John James Audubon

Pewee or Pewit Flycatcher. Muscicapa fusca [current name: Eastern Phoebe. Sayornis phoebe], from "The Birds of America," plate CXX

John James Audubon · 1827–38

Public domainThe Met
Chinese Gallery As It Was, Plate XV in Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton...Printed by T. Sutherland, Frederic Lewis, Robert Havel Jr., and M. Dubourg. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son, London, England, 1838., by John Nash, 1752 – 1835

Chinese Gallery As It Was, Plate XV in Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton...Printed by T. Sutherland, Frederic Lewis, Robert Havel Jr., and M. Dubourg. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son, London, England, 1838.

John Nash, 1752 – 1835 · 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cat Bird. Turdus felivox [current name: Gray Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis], from "The Birds of America," plate CXXVIII, by John James Audubon

Cat Bird. Turdus felivox [current name: Gray Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis], from "The Birds of America," plate CXXVIII

John James Audubon · 1827–38

Public domainThe Met
Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America, by Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878

Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America

Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878 · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whip-Poor-Will. Caprimulgus vociferus [current name: Eastern Whip-poor-will. Caprimulgus vociferus], from "The Birds of America," plate 82 [later LXXXII], by John James Audubon

Whip-Poor-Will. Caprimulgus vociferus [current name: Eastern Whip-poor-will. Caprimulgus vociferus], from "The Birds of America," plate 82 [later LXXXII]

John James Audubon · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Panoramic View of New York, by Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878

Panoramic View of New York

Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chipping Sparrow. Fringilla socialis [current name: Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina], from "The Birds of America," plate CIV, by John James Audubon

Chipping Sparrow. Fringilla socialis [current name: Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina], from "The Birds of America," plate CIV

John James Audubon · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Equisetum x litorale Kuhlw.

Equisetum x litorale Kuhlw.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh Wren. Troglodytes palustris [current name: Marsh Wren. Cistothorus palustris], from "The Birds of America," plate 98 [misnumbered, should be 100] [later C], by John James Audubon

Marsh Wren. Troglodytes palustris [current name: Marsh Wren. Cistothorus palustris], from "The Birds of America," plate 98 [misnumbered, should be 100] [later C]

John James Audubon · 1830

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 2152 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 278755 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 2026-09-01 02:48 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.