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 “Wheeler, Albert Harry” — 24 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:42 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.

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

A Donor Presented by a Saint
Dieric Bouts · ca. 1460–65

Young Duck
Harry Dickinson Thrasher · ca. 1914–16; cast 1918

Design for Albert Settee
Anonymous, British, 19th century · early 19th century

In Remembrance of... Prince Albert
Ignace-François Bonhommé · 1862

An Indian Encampment
Ralph Albert Blakelock · ca. 1880–1900

Landscape
Ralph Albert Blakelock · 1885–95

Draped Model
Albert Joseph Moore · ca. 1865–67

Plate 28: Drummers and trumpet players marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'
Cornelis Galle I · 1623

Plate 53: Eight figures marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'
Cornelis Galle I · 1623

Plate 54: The pages marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'
Cornelis Galle I · 1623

Entrance of the Cardinal and Archduke Albert to Brussels in 1596
Anonymous, 16th century · after 1596
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. 385 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 00:42 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.