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. 24 shown for “Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Fantastic Garden
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715 · ca. 1700

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century (?)

Landscape with a view towards Caprarola
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · First quarter of the 19th century

Rock in the form of a fantastic mountain
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Fragment of a Design for a Nef, or Fantastic Centerpiece in the Form of A Boat
Artist not stated in the record · 1600

Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century

Fantastic Landscape with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)
Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Mountain View, El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 20, 1868

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1705

Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau · 1851

Title Page: Design for a Fantastical Landscape
Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

Chasse of Champagnat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150

Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825 · 1777

Fantastic Landscape
Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Two Designs for Woven Shawls
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

Fantastic Landscape
Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765

Overlooking El Arabah, Part One
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 20, 1868

Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–2100 BCE

West Point from Castle Rock, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1882 - 1885

Morgan Casket
Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Rock on a Hilltop, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–April 1889
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. 1342 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. 7483629 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 2026-08-29 06:17 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.