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 T. Copeland” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Joseph T. Copeland
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Fimbristylis cymosa subsp. spathacea (Roth) T. Koyama
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1915

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1904

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

Dennstaedtia scabra (Wall. ex Hook.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1905

Limestone Head of Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1230

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1904

The Music Lesson
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1765

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 1938

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1779

Dennstaedtia distenta (Kunze) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1938

Wine Cup
Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Calymmodon clavifer (Hook.) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1932

Wine Cup
Joseph Foster · ca. 1800

Pleopeltis crassinervata (Fée) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Feb 1938

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier · 1785

Elaphoglossum angulatum (Blume) T. Moore
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1905
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. 1669 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 476784 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 01:57 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.