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 “Sir Horace Jones” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Guildhall, London: The Great Hall, Facing East
Sir Horace Jones · ca. 1864

Melville Horace Warner
Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1880

St. Michael's Church, Cherry Burton: North East View
Sir Horace Jones · 1845–50

Head of a Woman
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1870–90

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

St. John, Cartoon for Carlisle Window, Paisley Abbey, Scotland
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1876

The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Adam and Eve, Design for Stained Glass Window, Frankby Church, Birkenhead (Cheshire), England
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · May 27, 1870

The Entombment
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1879

Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1870–74

The Backgammon Players
Philip Webb · 1861

The Calmady Children
Unidentified (British) · n.d.

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus
Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet · 1789

Mrs. Littleton
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.

The grammar of ornament
Owen Jones · 1868

Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1874

Mary Capel (1630–1715), Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth (1633–1678), Countess of Carnarvon
Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

Design for Stained Glass Window, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · ca. 1870
The Summons: Study for the Head of Gawaine
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1893

Walter Sir Raleigh
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

Santa Lucia, Naples
Calvert Richard Jones · 1845–46

Sir Edward Coke
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1616-1621

Design for the Figure of "Flora"
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 19th century

Sir Thomas Smythe (Smith)
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1617
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. 156 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. 37801 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-04 12:04 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.