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 “William Blake” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 10:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)
William Blake · ca. 1803–5

Portrait of William Phipps Blake (1826-1910)
Bradley & Rulofson · 1863

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)
William Blake · 1806

Microspermum repens (Blake) L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1967

Self-portrait, aged 21
Sir William Blake Richmond · 1863

Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"
U.S. War Department · 1856

The Angel Appearing to Zacharias
William Blake · 1799–1800

Sierra Nevada From the Four Creeks
Tucker, Beverley · 1856

Job's Sacrifice
William Blake · 1825–26
Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1912

The Creation
William Blake · 1825–26
Chloris truncata
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

Job's Despair
William Blake · 1825–26
Eragrostis setifolia Nees
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1912

Job's Comforters
William Blake · 1825–26
Ehrharta melicoides Thunb.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1912

Frontispiece to Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Great Albion
William Blake · [ca. 1804–20] (?)
Digitaria breviglumis (Domin) Henr.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1914

Job's Evil Dreams
William Blake · 1825–26

Callistemon shiressii Blakely
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1937

Behemoth and Leviathan
William Blake · 1825–26

Callistemon shiressii Blakely
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1937

Job accepting Charity
William Blake · 1825–26

Parahebe derwentiana (Andrews) B.G. Briggs & Ehrend.
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1899
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. 214 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. 286767 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-26 10:07 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.