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. 20 shown for “William Dunlap” — 50 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Self-portrait
William Dunlap · ca. 1825

William Dunlap self-portrait
William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · c. 1805

Mrs. John Adams Conant
William Dunlap · 1829

William Dunlap
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1897

John Adams Conant
William Dunlap · 1829

Elizabeth Chandler Putnam
William Dunlap, born Perth Amboy, NJ 1766-died New York City 1839 · ca. 1826

Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery
James Sharples · 1798

Elizabeth Linn Brown
William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · c. 1806

Chest-on-chest
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1799

Joel Barlow
William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · 1806

Judith with the Head of Holofernes
David Teniers the Younger · 1650s

Charles Brockden Brown
William Dunlap, 18 Feb 1766 - 28 Sep 1839 · 1806

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

Richard Channing Moore
Peter Maverick, 1780 - 1831 · c. 1823

Ariadne
Asher Brown Durand · 1834

Mrs. Nathaniel Parkinson
Unidentified · late 18th - early 19th century

Portrait of a Woman
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · ca. 1825-1830

Sommera dunlapii L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1924

Franklin Pierce and William R. King
Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1852

James Dunlap
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 263433 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 21:08 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.