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. 21 shown for “Allan Ramsay” — 49 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Country Girl at Surrentum
Allan Ramsay · September 1776

Portrait of Lady Boyd
Artist not stated in the record · 1749

The Right Honorable Sir Charles Pratt, Knight, now Lord Camden
John Faber, the Younger · 1765–68

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
Charles Spooner, c. 1720 - 5 Dec 1767 · 1756

William Pitt the Elder
William Hoare · ca. 1754

David Ramsay
Charles Fraser, 1782 - 1860 · c. 1835

Bust-length portrait study of a young woman with a striped shawl
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60
Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait
Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885 · c. 1875

Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait
Titian Ramsay Peale II, 17 Nov 1799 - 13 Mar 1885 · c. 1845

Oval, bust-length portrait study of a young man
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

David Ramsay
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1771

Half-length portrait study of a young woman with long hair
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Titian Ramsay Peale II
Unidentified Artist · c. 1875

Three-quarter length portrait study of a man seated at a desk with a dog
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Eleanor Ramsay Fitzwilliam
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

Half-length portrait study of a wigged man
Joseph van Aken · ca. 1740–60

Charles Ramsay
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

Untitled Album by Titian Ramsay Peale
Peale, Titian Ramsay · ca 1860s

Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Back Parlor
Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1862

Titian Ramsay Peale at G Street Residence, Washington, D.C. - Front Parlor
Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885 · 1862
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 0 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. 5392 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-09-06 02:06 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.