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 “Webb” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Eccleston Medal
Thomas Webb · 1805

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1855

Medal
Webb · 1805

Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1965

The Backgammon Players
Philip Webb · 1861

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1906

In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger
Webb · 19th century

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1957

M.T. Webb
Unknown Artist · ca. 1830

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1905

Footed goblet with bulging bowl
Philip Webb · 1860

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 1855

Spoon
Edward Webb · ca. 1710

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Dec 1915 to 30 Dec 1916

Red and White Poppies
Tosa Mitsumochi · early 17th century

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1925

Tagasode (“Whose Sleeves?”)
Artist not stated in the record · first half of 17th century

Retama rhodorhizoides (Webb. & Berthel.) Webb & Berthel.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1897

In Memory of Lord Nelson
Jean-Pierre Droz · 1805

Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E. Schulz
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Nov 1965
![[Telegrapher], by E. Webb's Union Gallery](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42459-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Telegrapher]
E. Webb's Union Gallery · 1868

Photograph of airmail pilot Lt. Torrey Webb and NYC Postmaster Thomas G. Patten
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918

Scent Bottle
Thomas Webb & Sons · 1870–1900

Hibiscus dictyocarpus Hochst. ex Webb
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1839
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. 404 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3884 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 01:21 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.