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 Robert Cozens” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome
John Robert Cozens · 1782–83

Euphrasia stricta Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

View of Vesuvius
John Robert Cozens · August 18 [1782]

Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1914

On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri
John Robert Cozens · September 1782 or later

Humulus americanus Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

Wine cup
John Hull · ca. 1660

Eleocharis halophila (Fernald & Brackett) Fernald & Brackett
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1912

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Mops condylurus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1952

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55

Lathyrus sphaericus Retz.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1863

Storm Over A Lake
Joseph Barber · 1800–1811

Robert Fuller and John Binns
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Robert Richford Roberts
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · c. 1840

Tivoli, Villa of Maecenas and part of the Cascatelle
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1794–97

John Burgoyne
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

Plate
John Monday · 1830

Robert E. Lee
John A. O'Neill, 1857 - 1890? · c. 1865

Shilling
John Hull · 1652

John Butler Yeats
Robert Henri, American, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865–1929 · (1909)

Shilling
John Hull · ca. 1667–ca. 1682

John Byron
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782
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. 2995 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. 408617 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 05:13 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.