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 Sidney Cooper” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Farm Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Sidney Cooper

Portrait of a Young Man
Thomas Sidney Moran, American, 1863–1930 · 1908

Study of a Boy (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Sidney Cooper

In Memory of the Confederate Dead
Bennett, Donaldson & Elmes Lithography Company, 1865 - 1872 · c. 1866

Village Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Sidney Cooper · 1831

Thomas Cooper
E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867 · 1844

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1825

The Armenian Bridge, Near St. Thomas's Mount, Madras, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

Presentation Vase
Thomas Fletcher · 1824

Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1897

Portrait of Thomas Campbell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830-1840
![[Thomas Sidney Cooper], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP349868.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Thomas Sidney Cooper]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s

Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1520

Ewer
Thomas Fletcher · 1830–40

St. Thomas' New York
Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935 · 1918

Mother and Son
Thomas Sully · 1840

Wilson and His Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1916

Mrs. Joseph Cooper (Mary Justice)
James Peale · 1797

Woodrow Wilson and His Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · March 1, 1921

Pair of side chairs
Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Near the Pass of Faido, Italy
Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · 1867

Thomas Wriothesley (1505–1550), First Earl of Southampton
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1535

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511
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. 194 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. 188613 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 02:48 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.