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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 “Songs, Sketch of the Life of Blind Tom” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Shepherd's Song
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1891
Songs, Sketch of the Life of Blind Tom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175
Tom, The Blind Negro Boy Pianist, Only 10 Years Old
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Broadside for Blind Tom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1887
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480
Instrument case for flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell with original instrument case
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15
Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820
Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire
B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · ca. 1820
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882
Carte-de-visite of Thomas Wiggins, also known as Blind Tom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter
Elevation of a Wall
Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754 · 1745-1750
Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1455–60
St. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2985938 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 09:36 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.