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. 12 shown for “Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Margaret Brown Stone
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · c. 1785

Facsimile of letter from George Washington to Francis Hopkinson
Sarony Lithography Company, active 1853 - 1857 · c. 1853-57

Thomas Stone
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · c. 1785

Mrs. Richard Caton
Unidentified Artist · 1855

Mrs. John Jay
Unidentified Artist · 1855

Thomas Stone
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1827

George Read
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · 1784

Robert Morris
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · c. 1785

George Washington
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · 1785

Patience Lovell Wright
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1782

Congress Voting Independence
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · c. 1803 (1906 restrike)

Monarda punctata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1938
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3107763 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 15:58 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.