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. 19 shown for “John Parkinson” — 50 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Theatrum Botanicum, the Theatre of Plants or An Universal and Compleat Herball.
John Parkinson · 1640

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1949

Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus Terrestris
John Parkinson · 1629

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1934

The Paradise Lost of John Milton with Illustrations by John Martin
John Martin · 1846

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1937

Surrey Institution
Thomas Rowlandson · September 1, 1809

Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson) Fosberg
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1934

Surrey Institution, plate 81 from "Microcosm of London"
Thomas Rowlandson · September 1, 1809

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Dec 1964

The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1937

Portrait of a Man
Quinten Massys

Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1938

Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson) Fosberg
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1934

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1956

Pandanus tectorius Parkinson ex DuRoi
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1948

Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson) Fosberg
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1953

Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson) Fosberg
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1934
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 261538 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 17:04 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.