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 “Luke Sullivan” — 50 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Paul Before Felix
Luke Sullivan · February 5, 1752

Henry Cruger
Artist not stated in the record · 1770

Paul Before Felix
Luke Sullivan · February 5, 1752

Milledge L. Bonham
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-65 (after earlier photograph)

Satire on False Perspective: Frontispiece to "Kirby's Perspective"
Luke Sullivan · February 1754

Argomuellera mjikendae Q. Luke
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 2003

The March to Finchley (A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745)
Luke Sullivan · December 31, 1750

Rhus natalensis Bernh.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2007

The March to Finchley--A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland in the Year 1745
Luke Sullivan · June 12, 1761

Rhus vulgaris Meikle
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2007

Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter
William Hogarth · February 5, 1752

Hydnora sinandevu Beentje & Q. Luke
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 1992

Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter (Exodus 2:10)
William Hogarth · February 5, 1752

Solanecio kangae Q. Luke & Beentje
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 2008

Sullivan's Paul Before Felix
Dent · ca. 1800

St. Luke (S. Lvcas)
Artist not stated in the record · 1650

Jug
Worcester factory · ca. 1760

Lomariopsis sorbifolia (L.) Fée
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Serpocaulon triseriale (Sw.) A.R. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1992

Lonchitis hirsuta L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1964
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 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. 6442 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 22:11 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.