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 “Sir Edward John Poynter” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

The West Wind, Lynmouth
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1866

Portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter, from "The Portfolio"
Alphonse Legros · 1877

Miriam, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1864–81

Pharoah Honors Joseph, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1864–81

Joseph Before Pharoah, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1864–81

Joseph Distributes Corn, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1864–81

Moses and Aaron Before Pharoah, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1863–81

Moses Strikes the Rock, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1865–81

Joseph Presents His Father to Pharoah, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1864–81

Moses Slaying the Egyptian, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1863–81

The Israelites in Egypt–Water Carriers, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1881

Moses Keeping Jethro's Sheep, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Sir Edward John Poynter · 1863–81
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. 325 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 23:07 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.