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. 23 shown for “Sir Francis Chantrey” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
Sir Francis Chantrey · 1823

Sir Francis Drake
Robert Vaughan, c. 1600 - 1678 · 1620-23

Sir Francis Chantrey
William Wyon · 1846

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham
Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1737–38

Foot-Combat Helm of Sir Giles Capel (1485–1556)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Sir Thomas Gresham
Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · 1616-1619

R.A.'s of Genius Reflecting on the True Line of Beauty, at the Life Academy Somerset House
Thomas Rowlandson · June 1, 1824

Sir William Segar
Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · c. 1618-24

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · 1618

Saints Michael and Francis
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Schizothrix friesii
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1914

Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915

Sir Randall Roberts
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787

Clarkia davyi (Jeps.) F. H. Lewis & M.E. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 2016

Shield of Sir John Smythe (1534–1607)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–85

Scytonema sowerbyanum C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Portrait of James Stuart, The Prince of Great Britain &c
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1688

Field Armor Probably of Sir John Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

Calothrix caespitula Harv. in Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 1831
Passiflora serrata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1921
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. 439 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 72772 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 01:45 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.