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. 18 shown for “Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:44 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 law of the leper in the day of his cleansing'
Johann Melchior Füssli · ca. 1730

Fifth Day's Work
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Rhinoceros in a Landscape within an Ornamental Frame
Johann Melchior Füssli · ca. 1730

Drawing
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

A Scene of Judgment
Johann Melchior Füssli · ca. 1730

Drawing
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Landscape with Ornamental Frame
Johann Melchior Füssli · ca. 1730

Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

'Tempus omnia manifestat': Allegory of Art and Knowledge
Johann Melchior Füssli · late 17th–early 18th century

Study for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

The Sacerdotal Atrium in Perspective
Johann Melchior Füssli · late 17th–early 18th century

Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for The Making of Glass, The Treasure Hid in the Sand, Plate 363, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra
Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18 matched · 18 examined · 2 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 2026-09-03 15:44 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.