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. 15 shown for “Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878” — 43 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

An Elizabethan Room at Lyme Hall, Cheshire
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1872

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Austria No. 1: Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854.
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1851

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

North Germany. Plate from "Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851," published 1854.
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1851–54

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
Joseph Nash The Elder, British, 1808 - 1878 · 1856

Title Page
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family
Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1865

Group Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) and Family
Unknown · 1862
Andropogon tenuispatheus (Nash) Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 2022

Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash var. scoparium
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1940

Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Aug 1940

Joseph II Empereur, Roy des Romains
Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, French, born Paris, France 1744-died Paris, France 1831 · 1770

Kings Bench Prison, from "Ackermann's Repository"
Artist not stated in the record · 1808
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1347864 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-06 04:05 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.