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 “Thomas Francis Dicksee” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Labour of Love, from "Illustrated News of the World"
Thomas Francis Dicksee · March 24, 1860

Thomas Francis Meagher
Thomas S. Wagner Lithography Co., active 1840 - 1865? · c. 1861-64

The grammar of ornament
Owen Jones · 1856

Thomas Francis Meagher
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62

Saint Francis
Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Thomas Francis Meagher
Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1852

The Saithwaite Family
Francis Wheatley · ca. 1785

Thomas Francis Meagher
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869 · c. 1862-64

The Valley of Wyoming
Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1865

Thomas Francis Meagher
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1861

Mother and Son
Thomas Sully · 1840

Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882

Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Coronation of the Virgin
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Patrick Francis Glassey
H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891? · c. 1887-91

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Thomas F. Meagher
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1861

Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1677–80

Patrick Francis Glassey
H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithography Co., active 1887 - 1891? · c. 1887-91

The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens · early or mid-1630s

Thomas Walker Gilmer
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1844

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Sullivan Brothers
Unidentified Artist · 1943
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. 2558 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 189758 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-05 10:12 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.