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 Holland I” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Feeding cup
Thomas Holland I · 1707–8

Melochia lupulina Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1915

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

Rutidosis crispata A.E. Holland
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1986

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Atriplex sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 1801

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Cymbonotus maidenii (Beauverd) A.E. Holland & V.A. Funk
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 2001

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

Aristolochia grandiflora Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874

Bauhinia divaricata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

Dicliptera sexangularis (L.) Juss.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1915

The Winsertor on the Messberg Hamburg (recto); View of the City Walls of Hamburg (verso)
Anthonie Waterloo · ca. 1658-60

Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1909 to 13 Mar 1909

Copy of an Antique Bas Relief: Dionysus Seated by a Table
Jan de Bisschop · mid 17th Century

Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1616-1621

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Sir Thomas More
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1600-1620

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Thomas Cole · 1836

Entophysalis rivularis (Kütz.) F.E. Drouet
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1950

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775
Bernard Romans · ca. 1775

Acrotriche serrulata R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 1801 to 1810
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. 2799 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 292258 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-03 21:20 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.