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 William Boxall” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Sir William Boxall, 1800 - 1879 · 1857

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

Sir William Howe
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

James McNeill Whistler, Age 14
Sir William Boxall · after 1848

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

Sir William Allen
Hill and Adamson · ca. 1845

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · January 14, 1908

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Sir William Boothby
Unidentified (British) · 18th century
![[Sir William Boxall], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-087.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Sir William Boxall]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s

July 4, 1776 John Hancock cover
Artist not stated in the record · July 4, 1776

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

Sir William Penn
Elkanah Tisdale, 1768 - after 1834 · 1796

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Sir William Penn
Alexander Lawson, 1773 - 1846 · 1797

George IV (1762–1830), When Prince of Wales
Sir William Beechey

Sir General Arthur William Currie
Joseph De Camp, born Cincinnati, OH 1858-died Boca Grande, FL 1923 · 1920

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

Portrait of Sir James Thornhill
Artist not stated in the record · 1786-1794

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729

Sir William Penn
Alexander Anderson, 1775 - 1870 · c. 1801

Wine cooler (one of a pair)
William Lukin I · 1716/17

Sir William Penn
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1835
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. 1662 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. 264181 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-01 19:27 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.