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. 17 shown for “Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814” — 45 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 16:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–85

Tom Molineaux
Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814 · 1812

Villa Madama, after H. Robert
Jean François Janinet · 1778

Head of an Old Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643

Old Man with a Staff
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805

Ci-devant Occupations; or, Madame Talian and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked before Barrass in the Winter of 1797. - A Fact!
James Gillray · February 20, 1805

A Vocal Concert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
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Clarinet in D
Astor & Co. · 1820 or 1821

Buteo lineatus
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1909

Louvre Courtyard
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Portrait of Mr. Franklin
Richard Dighton, British, 1795–1880 · 1870–80

Bidens multiceps Fassett
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1928

Agelaius phoeniceus
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909

Melospiza melodia
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909

Bombycilla cedrorum
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1904

Rhacomitrium lanuginosis (Hedw.) Brid.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1940
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 824237 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 2026-09-02 16:24 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.