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. 12 shown for “Mary Wright” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:20 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.

Embroidered Picture
Mary Wright · ca. 1754

Elijah Boardman
John Ramage · ca. 1790

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

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness
Annibale Carracci · ca. 1600

Double Diptych Icon Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

The Penitent Magdalen
Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France
Joseph Etienne Blerzy · 1779–80

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55

Processional Cross
Northern Highlands artist · 14th–15th century

Marie Wright, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1890

COLUMBIA BRIDGE. / ON THE / SUSQUEHANNA
William Ridgway & Co. · ca. 1840–ca. 1854
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. 81 matched · 24 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 13:20 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.