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. 10 shown for “Joseph Wilton” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Joseph Wilton · 1760

Design for a Monument to the Three Wives of the First Earl of Guilford, at Wroxton, Oxfordshire
Joseph Wilton · 1783

Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Woodwork and ceiling from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Robert Adam · ca. 1760–69

The Lake of Zug
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1843

Portrait of a Gentleman
Joseph Wood · 1812

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1811

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, the Magdalen, and St. John
Giorgio Ghisi · late 1570s

David raising sword to decapitate a fallen Goliath among battling soldiers
Marcantonio Raimondi · 1520–25

The marriage of Alexander and Roxana; Alexander surrounded by putti, offering a crown to Roxana who is seated at right
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · 1520–39
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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 02:51 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.