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. 17 shown for “G. R. Lambert & Co.” — 45 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![[Studio Portrait: Woman Seated Beside a Table, Singapore], by G. R. Lambert & Co.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-15801-095.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Studio Portrait: Woman Seated Beside a Table, Singapore]
G. R. Lambert & Co. · 1870s

Sambucus racemosa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1907

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595–1650)
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1640

Crassula lambertiana Schönland & Baker f.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1896

Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861

Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1961

View of Toledo
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1599–1600

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1898

The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889
Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1979

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex G. Don) Spreng.
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1949

Tortula ruralis (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1961

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1959

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1959

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1960

Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G. Gaertn. et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1959
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2322 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-08 19:39 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.