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. 16 shown for “Hawkes & Son” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term..jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Clarinet in B-flat
Hawkes & Son · 1878

Black Hawk, Son, Prophet
Unidentified Artist · 1833

Canopic jar with falcon head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Wa-sáw-me-saw, Roaring Thunder, Youngest Son of Black Hawk
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

American Longrifle
Nicholas Hawk · ca. 1820–30

Náh-se-ús-kuk, Whirling Thunder, Eldest Son of Black Hawk
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

Daoist Sage and Hawk
Soga Nichokuan · mid-17th century

Black Hawk Horse Weathervane Pattern
Henry Leach, born New Milford, PA 1809-died Montrose, PA 1885 · 1871-1872

Princely Hawking Party
Mirza 'Ali · ca. 1570

Canopic Coffin in the form of Qebehsenuef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

The Standard Bearer (probably Floris Soop, 1604–1657)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1654

Box with the Parable Prodigal Son and Scenes of Lovers
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Man in a Turban
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632

Curiosity
Gerard ter Borch the Younger · ca. 1660–62

Hunting Scene
Jonas Zeuner · 1770
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. 66 matched · 24 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. 50 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:40 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.