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. 17 shown for “Jerome B. Thompson” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:36 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 Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain
Jerome B. Thompson · 1858

Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868

Song of the Waters
Jerome B. Thompson · ca. 1870

Bill of sale for a boy named Hall to Jerome B. Annis
Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1854

Summer Flowers
Jerome B. Thompson · 1859

Bill of sale for a man named Daniel to Jerome B. Annis
Artist not stated in the record · November 1, 1851

Saint Jerome as Scholar
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1610
B. T. Graf v. Rumford
Franz Xavier Muller, 1756 - 1837 · c. 1792

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Phlegmariurus hypogaeus (B. Øllg.) B. Øllg.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1924

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Spring
Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome
Francesco Francia · ca. 1512–15

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome
Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Roundel with Saint Jerome in his Study
Pseudo-Ortkens · ca. 1520

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
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. 631 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 503942 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:36 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.