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 Young Ottley” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Anche a me, Madre mia! (Me too, mother!)
William Young Ottley · 1828

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet
Artist not stated in the record · May 1884

Vision of the True Cross appearing to St. Helen
William Young Ottley · 1795–1836

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet
Artist not stated in the record · May 1884

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi
William Young Ottley · 1795–1836

Ottleya mearnsii (Britton) D.D. Sokoloff x O. wrightii (A. Gray) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1934
![Mother and children [Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera, from Hesiod's "Theogony"], by William Young Ottley](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP836158.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Mother and children [Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera, from Hesiod's "Theogony"]
William Young Ottley · 1803–28

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1934

Young Husband: First Marketing
Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1934

Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1934

The Last Supper
Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Ottleya rigida (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff x O. utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1934

Saint Reparata before the Emperor Decius
Bernardo Daddi · ca. 1338–40

Lotus scoparius (Torr. & A. Gray) Ottley
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jul 2018

Six Angels
Jacopo di Cione · ca. 1365

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 18/3/26

Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1884

Two Nudes Seen from Below (recto); Male Figure with Upraised Arm (verso)
Pomarancio (Cristoforo Roncalli) · 1580–82

Acmispon maritimus var. brevivexillus (Ottley) Brouillet
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1935

A Cottage
François Boucher · n.d.

Ottleya utahensis (Ottley) D.D. Sokoloff
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1909
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. 1125 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 278943 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 22:57 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.