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 “William Heath ('Paul Pry')” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 06:18 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.

A Change in the Petticoats, or the Years 1780 &1817
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · 1817

1812 or Regency à la Mode
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · 1812

Opera Reminiscences, Plate 2: Hat Boxes
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · July 14, 1829

A Snug Birth in a Shower
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · 1828

Since I Saw You Last There is a Change!!! If fashions various laws you would obey–The Petticoat abridge: the Ankle full display
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · July 1828

We Have the Exhibition to Examine
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · 1827–29

The Fashion Behind but not Behind the Fashion: 1829–T'is Thus to Follow the Mode
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · May 1829

Opera Reminiscences, Plate 1st: Desdemona and Otello
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · July 15, 1829

Modern Oddities, by P. Pry Esq., Plate 1st
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · June 30, 1829
![A Desert [sic]–Imitation of Modern Fashion, by William Heath ('Paul Pry')](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-31711-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
A Desert [sic]–Imitation of Modern Fashion
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · ca. 1828

Morning Noon and Night
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · 1829

The Bustle!!!
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · ca. 1828
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 0 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 2026-08-30 06:18 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.