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. 22 shown for “Joshua Johnson” — 56 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Emma Van Name
Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Mrs. Joshua Johnson
Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · n.d.

Edward and Sarah Rutter
Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Joshua Johnson
Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862 · n.d.

Joshua
Gaetano Gandolfi · 1779

Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy
Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)
Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511

Portrait of Adelia Ellender
Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1803-1805

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Portrait of John Westwood
Joshua Johnson, American, ca. 1763 - after 1832 · ca. 1807-1808

Portrait of a Woman
Jürgen Ovens · 1650

Sir William Boothby
Unidentified (British) · 18th century

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Portrait of a Lady in White
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792 · ca. 1762-1764

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

Mrs. Lloyd
Unidentified (British) · 18th century

The Flagellation
Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Portrait of a Man
Unidentified (British) · 18th century

Lord Lifford
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, born Plympton, England 1723-died London, England 1792 · n.d.

Joshua Chamberlain
Unidentified Artist · c. 1866
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28933 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 22:13 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.