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. 16 shown for “Sir Henry Cheere” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dining room from Kirtlington Park
John Sanderson · 1748

Sir Henry Hobart
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1615-22

Design for a Fireplace
Sir Henry Cheere · mid-18th century

Sir Henry Clinton
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

Design for a Fireplace
Sir Henry Cheere · mid-18th century

Charlie Chaplin
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

A young boy
Sir Henry Cheere · mid-18th century

Charlie Chaplin
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925

William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801

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

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

Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696)
Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

The Drummond Children
Sir Henry Raeburn · ca. 1808–9

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)
Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555
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. 675 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 117076 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 10:35 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.