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 Guy Wall” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Forest Grove
William Guy Wall

City Hall
John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850 · 1826

The Bay of New York and Governors Island Taken from Brooklyn Heights
William Guy Wall · 1820–25

Ticonderoga
Peter Maverick, born New York City 1780-died New York City 1831 · ca. 1828

The Bay of New York Looking to the Narrows and Staten Island, Taken from Brooklyn Heights
William Guy Wall · 1820–25

View near Fort Montgomery (no. 18, Hudson River portfolio)
John Hill, born London, England 1770-died West Nyack, NY 1850 · ca. 1820-1825

The Bay of New York Taken from Brooklyn Heights
William Guy Wall · 1820–25

New York, from Governor's Island, 1820
I. Hill · ca. 1825

New York from Weehawk
William Guy Wall · ca. 1820–23

Henry Guy
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

New York from the Heights near Brooklyn
William Guy Wall · ca. 1820–23

William Howard Taft, Michinori S. Nagasaki, Guy L. Edie, William Kelly, Tasker Bliss, Clarence Edwards
William Dinwiddie, 23 Aug 1867 - 17 Jun 1934 · July 1905

Weehawken from Turtle Grove
William James Bennett · ca. 1830

Artocarpus lakoocha Wall. ex Roxb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 1904 to 31 May 1904

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

On a Square in a Spanish Town
Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1870

The Hudson River Portfolio
William Guy Wall · 1821–25

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1923

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room
Seymour Joseph Guy · 1866

Adiantum concinnum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Oct 1923

Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE

Philonotis tenella (Brid.) A. Jaeger
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1899

Dining room from Lansdowne House
Robert Adam · 1766–69

Dubautia carrii B.G. Baldwin & Friar
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1992
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. 1037 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. 292246 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 2026-08-27 05:13 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.