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. 16 shown for “Freeman Gage Delamotte” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Inscription in Gothic Letters
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Napoleon III, Eugenie, Victoria Queen of England, and Albert
Phillip Henry Delamotte, 21 Apr 1821 - 24 Feb 1889 · April 20, 1855

Another Year of LIfe Has Flown
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

The Interior of the Chinese Room, Looking toward the Conservatory, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
William Alfred Delamotte, 1775 – 1863 · 1840

Charity
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

The Drawing Room at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
William Alfred Delamotte, 1775 – 1863 · 1839

Six Border Designs
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Thomas Gage
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782

Decorated Border
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

The Bridge of Sighs
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Illuminated Initial "N"
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Hope
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Illuminated Initial "O"
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Illuminated Initial "C"
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Decorated Border
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62

Faith
Freeman Gage Delamotte · 1830–62
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. 26 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. 2800 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:24 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.