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 “Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:19 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.

Viscount Admiral Lord Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

Flintlock Repeating Pistol with Lorenzoni Action, Bearing the Crests of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), with Case and Accessories
Harvey Walklate Mortimer · ca. 1798–99

From Sir William Hamilton's Collection
James Gillray · May 8, 1801

A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique
James Gillray · February 11, 1801

Admiral Lord Duncan of Camperdown
William Tassie · 1798

Admiral Harry Paulet (1719/20–1794), Sixth Duke of Bolton
Francis Cotes

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782

Lord Nelson, from Leaders series (N222) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1888

Mwanangana (lord of the land) playing a sanza
Chokwe artist · 19th century (before 1869)
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

The Davidson Medal, in Honor of Lord Nelson, and the Victory of the Nile
Conrad Heinrich Küchler · 1798

Battle of the Nile, 1798, and Nelson's return, 1800
Peter Kempson · 1800
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. 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:19 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.