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 “James Barry” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Angelic Guards
James Barry · 1808

James Matthew Barrie
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · October 18, 1909

Divine Justice
James Barry · 1808
Eugenia liesneri Barrie
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1970

Study for "Divine Justice"
James Barry · ca. 1802

Eugenia darcyi Barrie
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jan 1967

Job Reproved by His Friends
James Barry · dated 1777; issued ca. 1790

Asarum canadense L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

Elysium & Tartarus, or The State of Final Retribution
James Barry · first published 1792; this state 1808

James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait
James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889 · c. 1845

Orpheus Instructing a Savage People in Theology and the Arts of Social Life
James Barry · plate dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792

Glechoma hederacea L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation
James Barry · 1792–1801

Lamium purpureum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

A Grecian Harvest-Home, or Thanksgiving to the Rural Deities, Ceres, Bacchus, etc.
James Barry · dated May 1, 1791, issued 1792

Collinsia violacea Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

The Conversion of Polemon
James Barry · 1778–90

Viola villosa Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

Satan, Sin, and Death: "Death and Sin met by Satan on his Return from Earth"
James Barry · 1792–95

Viola rostrata Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

Vase
Greenwood Pottery Company · ca. 1884–93

Rhamnus lanceolata Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)
Francis Legat · August 1, 1792

Staphylea trifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955
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. 91 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. 121475 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 20:02 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.