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. 17 shown for “Nicholas Richard Brewer, 1857 - 1949” — 45 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bandits on a Rocky Coast
Salvator Rosa · 1655–60

Maud Powell
Nicholas Richard Brewer, 1857 - 1949 · 1918 or 1919

James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35

Dr. William Henry Holmes
Nicholas R. Brewer, born High Forest, MN 1857-died St. Paul, MN 1949 · ca. 1923-1924

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864
Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Nicholas I
Richard James Lane, 1800 - 1872 · 1840

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Robert Carter Nicholas
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1840

Microtus breweri
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1856
Tilia americana L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1857
Malva rotundifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1857

Symphyotrichum sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1857

Forsstroemia trichomitria (Hedw.) Lindb.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Nov 1857

Dicranum flagellare Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1857

Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) Ehrh. ex P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1857
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 153463 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-03 05:52 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.