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 “Hewitt House” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mantel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–30

Hewitt House
Artist not stated in the record · 1894

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Plan and Details for Private House
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-18th century

Mantel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Plan of the Ground Floor and the Pit for an Opera House
Robert Bénard, French, 1734–1772 · 18th century

Exterior Elevation of a House
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Tea gown
House of Worth · 1894

Facade of a town house
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Striding Pan
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · 1530–1539

A Country House
Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, French, 1793 - 1877 · 1825–1840

"Tulipes Hollandaises" (textile)
House of Worth · 1889

Elevation of a house
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Evening dress
House of Worth · 1888

Elevation of a Garden House
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746–1809

Dinner dress
House of Worth · 1880–90

Two Peasant Houses
Eugène Edouard Soulès, French, 1811–1876 · 1811–1876

Evening dress
House of Worth · 1898

Two Sketches of Houses
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1879–80

Evening coat
House of Worth · ca. 1890

Landscape with Houses
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1890

Walking suit
House of Worth · ca. 1889

Large House
Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1877–80
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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 86274 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-05 07:03 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.