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. 12 shown for “Thomas Ryder I” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Henry William Bunbury Drawing his "Long Minuet"
Thomas Ryder I · 1789

Angelo's House–Escalus, a Justice, Elbow, Froth, Clown, Officers, etc. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 1)
Thomas Ryder I · April 23, 1798

Prince Henry, Hotspur and Falstaff (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)
Thomas Ryder I · first published 1796; reissued 1852

The Princess, Rosaline, etc. (Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost, Act 4, Scene 1)
Thomas Ryder I · first published 1793; reissued 1852

Olivia's House - Olivia, Maria and Malvolio (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
Thomas Ryder I · first published 1794; reissued 1852

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

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

Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92

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

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

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

Traveling clock watch with alarm
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680
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. 2525 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:59 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.