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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 “Page from a Dispersed Ramayana (Story of Rama)” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:52 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
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.
Page from a Dispersed Ramayana (Story of Rama)

Page from a Dispersed Ramayana (Story of Rama)

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a Ramayana, by Attributed to the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana

Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a Ramayana

Attributed to the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana · ca. 1680-1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page from a Dispersed Ramayana: (Story of Rama)

Page from a Dispersed Ramayana: (Story of Rama)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Abhisarika Nayika, folio from a Rasikpriya

Abhisarika Nayika, folio from a Rasikpriya

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615-1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides, by 'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl · dated 621 AH/1224 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lakshmana at the hermitage, folio from a Ramayana

Lakshmana at the hermitage, folio from a Ramayana

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
The Descent of the Ganges

The Descent of the Ganges

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu), by Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana

Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1520–30

Public domainThe Met
Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 5, 6), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 5, 6)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Excerpt from "How I Discovered the North Pole" from The Outlook (Vol. 51, No. 24, 15 June, 1895, p. 1025, 1026), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Excerpt from "How I Discovered the North Pole" from The Outlook (Vol. 51, No. 24, 15 June, 1895, p. 1025, 1026)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, by Nainsukh

Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Nainsukh · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 9, 10), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 9, 10)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 11), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Excerpt from The White Tigress from Illustrations for Short Stories: A Magazine of Fact and Fiction (XIX, No. 1, May 1895, p. 11)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series, by Nainsukh

The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series

Nainsukh · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Excerpt from Juno’s Wonderful Troubles from St. Nicholas Magazine (V, No. 5, March 1878, p. 313, 314), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Excerpt from Juno’s Wonderful Troubles from St. Nicholas Magazine (V, No. 5, March 1878, p. 313, 314)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · March 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bahram Gur and Azada

Bahram Gur and Azada

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Rajput Nobleman

Rajput Nobleman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630-1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hanuman before Rama and Lakshmana: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series

Hanuman before Rama and Lakshmana: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–25

Public domainThe Met
Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle

Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle

Artist not stated in the record · September 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
A Long Story, by Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771

A Long Story

Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753

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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 3935645 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 23:52 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.