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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. 24 shown for “Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet Tries to Follow the Ghost of his Father (I,4)” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hamlet Tries To Follow His Father's Ghost
Eugène Delacroix · 1835
Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet Tries to Follow the Ghost of his Father (I,4)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
The Ghost on the Terrace
Eugène Delacroix · 1843
Illustration to Hamlet. The queen tries to cheer Hamlet (I,2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1834
The Queen Tries to Console Hamlet
Eugène Delacroix · 1834
Illustration for Hamlet: The Players Represent the Death of Hamlet's Father (III,2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet Tempted to Kill the King (III,3)
Artist not stated in the record · 1843
Relief from the West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE
Illustration for Hamlet: The Death of Hamlet (V,2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1843
Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father
Adam Vogler · mid-19th century
Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet and the Queen (III,4)
Artist not stated in the record · 1834
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6
Lovat's Ghost on Pilgrimage
Artist not stated in the record · 1794
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Illustration for Hamlet: Hamlet and Guildenstern (III,2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658
Illustration for Hamlet: The Death of Ophelia (IV, 7)
Artist not stated in the record · 1843
Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
Jean-François Millet · 1872–73
Illustration for Hamlet: The Death of Polonius (III,4)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
Hamlet and the Queen
Eugène Delacroix · 1834
Rattus nitidus
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Aug 1967
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Illustraton for Hamlet. Polonius and Hamlet (II,2)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
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. 223 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3371153 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 00:13 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.