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. 24 shown for “Head of Augustus” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · 30–14 BCE

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Colossal marble head of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–30 CE

Head of a Woman
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Ivory portrait head of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

Sketches of Three Heads
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Marble portrait of the emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14–37 CE

Sketch of Head of the Madonna
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Gold aureus of Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · 20–19 BCE

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Vanderbilt Mantelpiece
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · ca. 1881–83

Head of a Woman
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Augustus the Strong
Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Sketch of a Woman's Head
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895
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. 34302 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. 2880998 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.