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. 12 shown for “John Dean” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The Harmony between History and Poetry, a putto with instruments overhead
John Dean · 1786

Democritus, seated, holding a book and looking towards the viewer
John Dean · 1783

Cupid, in the Character of a Link Boy
John Dean · 1777
Cornet in B-flat
John Augustus Köhler · ca. 1849

John Barnard
John Michael Rysbrack · 1744

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Lady Elizabeth Stanley (1753–1797), Countess of Derby
George Romney · 1776–78

Flintlock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–50

Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations

Armor for Man and Horse
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations

Bust of John Locke
Martin Jugiez · 1765–75

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hester Jane Ogle, 1775/76–1817) and Her Son (Charles Brinsley Sheridan, 1796–1843)
John Hoppner
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. 220 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:50 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.