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. 13 shown for “James Heath, 1757 - 1834” — 41 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Kick at the Broad-bottoms!– i.e. Emancipation of "All the Talents &c" - Vide the Fate of Ye Catholic Bill
James Gillray · March 23, 1807

Death of Major Pierson
James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1796

Francis Hopkinson
James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1816

Robert Morris
James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1816

George Washington (Lansdowne type)
James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1800

"The Columbiad" -- Cornwallis Resigning his Sword to Washington
James Heath, 1757 - 1834 · 1807

James Ewell Heath
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

Petrosedum rupestre (L.) P.V. Heath
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1834

Almanac for the First Half of the Year 1792
Artist not stated in the record · 1791

Marquis De Lafayette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1822

Major General John Pope
James Edward Kelly, born New York City 1855-died New York City 1933 · 1879

Marquis De Lafayette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834

Marquis De Lafayette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1834
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 128911 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-29 11:37 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.