Images / art

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. 23 shown for “Mayall, J. E (John Jabez Edwin) 1813-1901” — 51 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:30 UTC · fetched live for this request

Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.

Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

[Carte-de-Visite Album of British and European Royalty]

F. Joubert · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met

Portrait of Robert Braithwaite (1824-1917)

Mayall, J. E (John Jabez Edwin) 1813-1901 · 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Emma Charlotte Dillwyn Llewelyn's Album]

John Dillwyn Llewelyn · 1853–56

Public domainThe Met

George Bancroft

John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 17 Sep 1813 - 1901 · c. 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Dr. Livingstone

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1857

Public domainThe Met

James Buchanan

John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 17 Sep 1813 - 1901 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Seated Man Pointing to a Passage in an Open Book]

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1850s

Public domainThe Met

Composite Group Portrait of Touring Lecturers for the American Literary Bureau

American Literary Bureau · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

The Queen and Prince Consort

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1860

Public domainThe Met

John Sedgwick

E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Copy of the Rosetta Stone]

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1846–52

Public domainThe Met

Ilex sulcata Edwin

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Copy of the Painting "St. John the Evangelist" by Domenichino]

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1846–52

Public domainThe Met

Castilleja flavescens Pennell ex Edwin

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

John Jabez Edwin Mayall · ca. 1860

Public domainThe Met

Hon. J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, from Harper's Weekly, February 18, 1860

Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"

Daniel John Pound · 1859

Public domainThe Met

Portrait of Robert Grosvenor, Baron of Ebury

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

[Multiple Exposures of the Moon]

Antoine-François-Jean Claudet · 1846–52

Public domainThe Met

Polemonium occidentale Greene

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Miss Fitzpatrick as Katharina (Taming of the Shrew)

George Greatbach · 1851

Public domainThe Met

Triumph of Peace, Roundel, for the Aldini Villa at Montmorency

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

Burns Addometer

Burns, Jabez · 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian

What was queried

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2181374 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-04 04:30 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.

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Elsewhere in the catalogue

Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.