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. 16 shown for “Johann Hurlimann, 2 May 1793 - 18 Mar 1850” — 44 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Mah-to-toh-pa
Johann Hurlimann, 2 May 1793 - 18 Mar 1850 · c. 1840-43

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent
baron François Gérard · 1808

Gossia conspicua (Vieill. ex Guillaumin) N. Snow
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1951

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Alstonia lenormandii Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jun 1951

Myrtus sunshinensis Guillaumin
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1951

Eugenia stricta Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1951

Melodinus balansae Baill.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Mar 1951

Alyxia tisserantii Montrouz.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1950

Eugenia myrtopsidoides Guillaumin
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1951

Uromyrtus myrtoides (Brongn. & Gris) N. Snow
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1951

Melaleuca gnidioides Brongn. & Gris
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1951

Ochrosia balansae Baill. ex
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1951
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3554874 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-01 19:02 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.