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 “Joseph Cox” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Settee
Joseph Cox · 1757–60

Patent Model of a Flatbed Cylinder Web Press
Cox, Joseph L. · ca 1879

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729

Last Will and Testament of Stephen G. Wells
Artist not stated in the record · 1849

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow
Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Phebalium ozothamnoides F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1904

Label
Joseph Cox · 1757–60

Lupinus sellulus var. lobbii (A. Gray ex S. Watson) B.J. Cox
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1901

Pier Table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory · 1901

Cox's Landing, James River
Andrew Joseph Russell · 1864

Carex tonsa (Fernald) E.P. Bicknell
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Carex conoidea Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

Anne Dashwood (1743–1830), Later Countess of Galloway
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1764

Carex glaucodea Tuck. ex Olney
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484

Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 2008

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Kenyon Cox
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907 · 1889

Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus
Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Kenyon Cox
William A. Coffin, born Allegheny, PA 1855-died New York City 1925
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. 48 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. 87619 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 2026-09-01 22:31 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.