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. 16 shown for “Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833” — 20 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:48 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 Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Mounted Chinese Vase on a Pedestal, for the Music Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion
Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · 1815–22

A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449

Mantelpiece Detail, Music Room
Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · ca. 1820

Art treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester
Francis Bedford · 1858

Design for North wall, Yellow Drawing Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Artist not stated in the record · 1817–18

Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth
Henry Meyer · March 20, 1815

sidewall
Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · 1817–27

Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!
James Gillray · 1824–27

Chimney-piece, West Wall of Music Room
Robert Jones, British, active 1815 – 1833 · ca. 1820

Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray · June 20, 1789

Elephant and Castle, Newington
George Hunt, British, active 1824 - 1831 · 1826
![[American naval monument]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fad%2Fweb-large%2F24823.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[American naval monument]
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1816–ca. 1830

Montage of American Theatrical Figures
Unidentified Artist · 1866

Virgin and Child
Artist not stated in the record · middle or second half of 19th century, in the style of a mid-13th century Limoges original

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10 matched · 10 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 06:48 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.