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. 11 shown for “John Linnell” — 51 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 17:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Standing shelf (one of a pair)
William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

The Young Brood
John Outrim, English, born 1810-died after 1874

View of Kensington Gardens, London
John Linnell · 1812

Study of the artist's son, John
John Linnell · May 1835

Underriver–The Golden Valley
John Linnell · ca. 1833

Portrait of a mother and child
John Linnell · 1823
![[John Linnel], by Eotto's School of Photography](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-199.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[John Linnel]
Eotto's School of Photography · 1863

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

A Benedictine Monk
Hugo van der Goes

Craig Goch, Moel Hebog, North Wales
Cornelius Varley · ca. 1802

Cottages in an extensive landscape
William Henry Hunt · late 1820s
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260413 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 17:52 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.