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. 20 shown for “Robert Mitchell” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 17:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plans, And Views in Perspective. With Descriptions, Of Buildings Erected In England and Scotland: and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs.
Robert Mitchell · 1801

Robert Byington Mitchell
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1862

Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1)
Robert Mitchell Meadows · August 1, 1795

Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Quiscalus quiscula stonei
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1901

High chest of drawers
Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1720

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
Antoine Vestier · 1785

Nose Ornament
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Pandion haliaetus
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1901
![[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing], by Robert Boning](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP700160.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing]
Robert Boning · 1850s
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri], by S. C. Burgess](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-261.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri]
S. C. Burgess · 1880s–1890s

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home
Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935 · 1898

Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Aristida longespica Poir.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1965

Sir Henry Spelman (Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus)
William Faithorne the Elder · 1664

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1947

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1947
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. 73 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. 159164 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 17:56 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.