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 “Hugh Bridport” — 45 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Carolyn Mishner
Hugh Bridport · ca. 1825

Camp-Meeting by Hugh Bridport and and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider
Kennedy & Lucas · ca 1832

Portrait of a Lady
Hugh Bridport · ca. 1835

William Henry Furness
Hugh Bridport, 1794 - 1868 · c. 1817-20

Joel Roberts Poinsett
Hugh Bridport · 1843
![[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider, by Rider, Alexander](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNMAH-2003-24482.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Camp Meeting] by Hugh Bridport (graphic artist) and Kennedy & Lucas after a painting by Alexander Rider
Rider, Alexander · ca 1832

Drawing of Clinton Vase
Thomas Fletcher · ca. 1824–25

Portrait of a Gentleman
Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1835

Joel Roberts Poinsett
Edward Greene Malbone · 1801

Mrs. Francis Barton Stockton
Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1840

Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen
Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868 · ca. 1816

Thomas Lee Shippen
James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831 · 1795
Platysiphonia delicata
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1964

Oryctolagus cuniculus cuniculus
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1893

Langston Hughes
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1925

Hughes H-1 Racer
Hughes Aircraft Co.
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. 37891 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 21:06 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.