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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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Page from a Dispersed Ramayana (Story of Rama)
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 19th century

Rama and Lakshman with the sage Vishvamitra, from a Ramayana
Attributed to the Master of Style II of the ‘Shangri’ Ramayana · ca. 1680-1690

Page from a Dispersed Ramayana: (Story of Rama)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-18th century

Abhisarika Nayika, folio from a Rasikpriya
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615-1625

"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

Lakshmana at the hermitage, folio from a Ramayana
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690-1710

"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

The Descent of the Ganges
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Nanda and Vasudeva: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)
Master of the Dispersed Bhagavata Purana · ca. 1520–30

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

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

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

Rama and Lakshmana as Boys Assist the Sage Vishvamitra: Folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
Nainsukh · ca. 1780

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

Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana at the Hermitage of Bharadvaja: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

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

The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
Nainsukh · ca. 1780

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

Bahram Gur and Azada
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

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

Hanuman before Rama and Lakshmana: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710–25

Scrapbook page with photograph of Anthony Battle
Artist not stated in the record · September 1925

Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

A Long Story
Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771 · 1753
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.