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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 “Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825
Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann
Artist not stated in the record · February 18, 1861
Letter
Shiba Sonome 斯波園女 · 1696
Letter written by John Brown and Frederick Douglass to Brown's wife and children
Artist not stated in the record · January 30, 1858
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1862
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · May 24, 1839
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · November 9, 1945
John Maunsell
John Ramage · ca. 1785
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · March 29-30, 1835
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · November 17, 1945
Christ Appearing to His Mother
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · September 24, 1945
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · September 25, 1944
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · July 24, 1945
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · July 28-29, 1837
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577
Letter of retirement for John T. Jackson
Artist not stated in the record · February 6, 1940
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. 488 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. 1334901 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 02:00 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.