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 “Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Vertrouwt Book Plate
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1820

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Poems by Robert Burns, Vol. III, Title Page
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1821

Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1825

Elias Hicks Bookplate
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1820

Cadwallader David Colden, Mayor of New York City
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1825

The Art of Writing by John Jenkins, Frontispiece
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1813

Secrétaire à abattant
Duncan Phyfe · 1835–47

Ticonderoga
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1828

Bedstead
Charles-Honoré Lannuier · ca. 1805–8

"Him Pensive on the lonely beach she found, with streaming eyes in briny torrents drown'd, and inly pining for his native shore", from The Odyssey of Homer, Book V. Pa. 111. Published by W. Durell.
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · 1812

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington...
Tyler, Benjamin O. · 1815

Couch
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

Joseph the Prophet Addressing the Lamanites by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson, 1844
S. Brannan & Co. · 1844

Side Chair
Duncan Phyfe · ca. 1837

John Hart
Metropolitan Printing Company · n.d.

Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Birch, Wambold & Backus San Francisco Minstrels
Thomas, Henry Atwell · n.d.

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume
Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Was She Right?
Rothengatter · n.d.

The Feast of Acheloüs
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1615

Watch and Wait! Or Through Fire
Metropolitan Printing Company · n.d.
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. 630 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. 82 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 08:09 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.