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 “Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598” — 63 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 19:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Enoch and his family surrounding a meal table and holding their hands in a gesture of prayer; behind them is the open end of house; to the right a woman hands out bread to a child, young man, and old man
Johann Theodor de Bry · ca. 1580–1623

Noble and Lady
Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

Avaritia
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Decorative Panel: Sea Monsters
Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1550

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle
Theodor de Bry · 1592–93

St. Jerome in his Study, Fontispiece to Part VIII of the Bibliotheca Chalcographica by Jean Jacques Boissard
Artist not stated in the record · 1645–1652

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Noble on Horseback
Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · ca. 1575

Frieze with Half-Length Figure Holding Cornucopias
Theodor de Bry · ca. 1590

Plate, from Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna (Emblems worth knowing noble and common men)
Theodor de Bry, Flemish, 1528 – 1598 · 1592–1593

Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Death of Lucretia
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Plate 1, from a set of four frieze designs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

Blackwork Design for Broochs, Bracelets and Pendants
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

Frieze with Two Female Figures Holding Books
Theodor de Bry · ca. 1590

Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

Frieze with a Putto Holding a Platform
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

The Good Shepherd, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)
Artist not stated in the record · 1598

Reverse Copy of a Design for a Buckle with an Owl
Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600

(Untitled) (from book, Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Verissima)
Artist not stated in the record · 1598
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. 42 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. 39 matched · 39 examined · 5 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 2026-09-02 19:24 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.