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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 “John Bayly” — 55 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:14 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Sugar Bowl and Cover, by John Bayly

Sugar Bowl and Cover

John Bayly · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beckenham Place in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Beckenham Place in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Front Elevation of Bromley College, Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

The Front Elevation of Bromley College, Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Boronia hartleyi Duretto & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
North Cray Place, in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

North Cray Place, in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ground plan of Ancient Palace at Eltham, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Ground plan of Ancient Palace at Eltham, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Nov 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Edyve, the good queen and noble mother to Etheltane, Edmund and Eldred, Kinges of England..., from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Edyve, the good queen and noble mother to Etheltane, Edmund and Eldred, Kinges of England..., from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Heliodendron basalticum (F. Muell.) Gill.K. Br. & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 19/9/53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cobham Hall in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Cobham Hall in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Boronia pancheri (Baill.) Duretto & Bayly

Boronia pancheri (Baill.) Duretto & Bayly

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ancient Episcopal Palace of Bromley, belonging to the See of Rochester, taken before the year 1756, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

The Ancient Episcopal Palace of Bromley, belonging to the See of Rochester, taken before the year 1756, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Zoysia pauciflora Mez

Zoysia pauciflora Mez

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/12/45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ruins of the Ancient Archiepiscopal Palace at Otford in Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Ruins of the Ancient Archiepiscopal Palace at Otford in Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Dec 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of the Ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace and of the Church of Wrotham in Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

A View of the Ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace and of the Church of Wrotham in Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Paratrophis smithii Cheeseman

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 2/12/45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Selected Prints from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3, by John Bayly

Selected Prints from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

John Bayly · 1777–90

Public domainThe Met
Fumana glutinosa (L.) Boiss.

Fumana glutinosa (L.) Boiss.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2, by Rudolph Ackermann, London

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2

Rudolph Ackermann, London · July–December 1809

Public domainThe Met
Rytidosperma gracile (Hook. f.) Connor & Edgar

Rytidosperma gracile (Hook. f.) Connor & Edgar

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 2 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. 260367 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 03:14 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.