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 Henry Pyne” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. II
William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

Percy Rivington Pyne, II
Alvin Fred Bradley, 1862 - 1948? · 1918

The Microcosm of London, or London in Miniature, Vol. I
William Henry Pyne · 1808–11

End of Winter
John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · after 1889

William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801
Physalis macrosperma Pyne et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 2000

Pocket bottle
American Flint Glass Manufactory · 1769–74

Hemlock Pool
John Henry Twachtman, born Cincinnati, OH 1853-died Gloucester, MA 1902 · ca. 1890-1900

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 1916

An English Country Performance of Macbeth
J. Wright · 1790

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Sep 1947

Wrack
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1839

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1939
![[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP339371.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]
William Henry Fox Talbot · probably 1835

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1939

Side Chair
Benjamin Henry Latrobe · ca. 1808

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1996

Charity
Carlo Cignani · ca. 1680

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Sep 2018

Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana
William Henry Rinehart · 1870; carved 1874

Liatris cokeri Pyne & Stucky
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 2018

Clytie
William Henry Rinehart · 1869–70; carved 1872

View of the Roman Forum, With the Arch of Severus in the Foreground
William Hadfield, British · 1770–90
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. 4604 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 362346 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 23:43 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.