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. 15 shown for “Wise & Clarke” — 18 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)
Edgar Degas · ca. 1867–68

Execution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians
Wise & Clarke · 1865

King Arthur (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'
Artist not stated in the record

Bird Staff Head
Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Catasetum Louise Clarke 'Wonder Woman' × C. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2'
Artist not stated in the record

Zoomorphic ornament
Mesoamerican artist(s) · 400–100 BCE

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: /7/15

Tegg's Complete Collection of Caricatures, Relative to Mrs. Clarke and the Circumstances Arising from the Investigation of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York Before the House of Commons
Thomas Rowlandson · March 27, 1809

Oenothera caespitosa Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 2024

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Manohar · recto: ca. 1615–20; verso: ca. 1530–50

Castilleja angustifolia (Nutt.) G. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 2024

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · ca. 1890–95

"Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balachand · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca.1540–50

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 17:20 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.