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. 24 shown for “Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Saint Roch
Francesco Francia · 1502
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record

Stand
John Wakelin · 1785–86
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1975

Armor from a Small Garniture for Field and Tournament
Kunz Lochner · dated 1548, with later restorations
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1960

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · May 1975

Saint Dominic Resuscitating Napoleone Orsini
Bartolomeo degli Erri · 1467–74
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · May 1995

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1979

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 2004

The House of Bijapur
Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1979

Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo
Anthony van Dyck · 1624
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 2011

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1960

Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick
Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1995

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72
Nereia tropica (W.R. Taylor) W.R. Taylor
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Mar 2011
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. 205 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 44431 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-05 00:51 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.