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. 19 shown for “Old Ford” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 03:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Piece
Old Ford · 1760–80

Old Ford
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century

Printed cotton
Robert Jones · 1761

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Cows Crossing a Ford
Jules Dupré · 1836

Lemna trisulca L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1975

Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Festuca ovina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1928

The Ford
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · possibly 1636

Ditrichum pusillum (Hedw.) Hampe
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jun 1928

The Convalescent (A Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Ford Madox Brown · 1872

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 1936

Lady-in-Waiting at Edo Castle
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川國芳 · ca. 1854–60 (Ansei era)

Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1961

Panel
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Hunting and fishing scenes
Robert Jones · 1769

Newcastle at Night from the Rabbit Banks, Gateshead
George Price Boyce · 1864

Nine Studies of the Moses in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Nine Studies for the Eve in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1503–40

Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers
Bromley Hall Printworks · 1765–75
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. 61 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 47721 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 03:34 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.