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. 13 shown for “Richard Earlom” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Girl and Pigs
Richard Earlom · 1783
Thomas Pownall
Richard Earlom, 1743 - 1822 · 1777

Seaport with Sailors Loading Merchandise
Richard Earlom · 1774

Landscape with Cupid and Psyche
Richard Earlom · 1776

Rape of Europa
Richard Earlom · 1776

Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess
Richard Earlom · 1776

Christ Summoning Peter and Andrew
Richard Earlom · 1776

The Prodigal Son
Richard Earlom · 1766

View of Rome and Surrounding Country
Richard Earlom · 1810

Portrait of Helena Fourment, Rubens' second wife, wearing a fur coat over her shoulders
Thomas Chambars · 1767

Landscape with Figures
Richard Earlom · 1774

April / Avril
Richard Earlom · ca. 1781

A Blacksmith's Shop
Richard Earlom · August 25, 1771
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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 63840 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 13:50 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.