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Images / art

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 “Sedgfield's English Scenery” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:57 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
[Group of 17 Early Stereograph Views of British Churches], by Sedgfield's English Scenery

[Group of 17 Early Stereograph Views of British Churches]

Sedgfield's English Scenery · 1850s–1910s

Public domainThe Met
Optical Toy: "Temple Bar by Moonlight" (Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery, no. 10), by William Morgan, English, active 19th c.

Optical Toy: "Temple Bar by Moonlight" (Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery, no. 10)

William Morgan, English, active 19th c. · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumnal Sunset, by David Lucas

Autumnal Sunset

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
"American Cities A.D. Scenery. City Hall New York", by Old Hall Works, English, 1835–1849

"American Cities A.D. Scenery. City Hall New York"

Old Hall Works, English, 1835–1849 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumnal Sunset, by David Lucas

Autumnal Sunset

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Composition Suggested by Scenery between Pasto, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Composition Suggested by Scenery between Pasto, Colombia, and Quito, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 26, 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumnal Sunset, by David Lucas

Autumnal Sunset

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Title Page, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumnal Sunset, by David Lucas

Autumnal Sunset

David Lucas · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Ruins at Cannouge, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Ruins at Cannouge, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumnal Sunset, by David Lucas

Autumnal Sunset

David Lucas · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Part of the Black Town, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Part of the Black Town, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hampstead Heath with St. Paul's in the Distance: Vignette, by David Lucas

Hampstead Heath with St. Paul's in the Distance: Vignette

David Lucas · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Part of the Kanaree Caves, Salsette, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Part of the Kanaree Caves, Salsette, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring, by David Lucas

Spring

David Lucas · 1829–30

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Title Page, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hampstead Heath, by David Lucas

Hampstead Heath

David Lucas · 1829

Public domainThe Met
Mausoleum of Sultan Purveiz, Near Allahabad, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Mausoleum of Sultan Purveiz, Near Allahabad, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Morning, by David Lucas

Summer Morning

David Lucas · 1831

Public domainThe Met
An Antient Hindoo Temple, In the Fort of Rotas, Bahar, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

An Antient Hindoo Temple, In the Fort of Rotas, Bahar, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Sarum, by David Lucas

Old Sarum

David Lucas · 1830

Public domainThe Met
The Mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, At Moneah, On the River Soane, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

The Mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, At Moneah, On the River Soane, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
River Stour, by David Lucas

River Stour

David Lucas · 1830–31

Public domainThe Met
Interior View of the Palace, Madura, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Interior View of the Palace, Madura, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 140 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. 6188 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-28 06:57 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.