OpenTwo 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. 24 shown for “James Hamilton” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Beach Scene
James Hamilton · ca. 1865
James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton; 4th Earl of Arran, Earl of Cambridge
Robert Vaughan, c. 1600 - 1678 · 1620-1625
On Hampstead Heath
James Hamilton · 1856
Thomas Cummings and James Shegogue
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1844
Alexander Hamilton
James Sharples · ca. 1796
Portrait of James Hamilton
Unknown · 1886
Tongs
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
David Crockett
James Hamilton Shegogue, 1806 - 1872 · 1831
Creampot
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Untitled (Harbor Scene)
Unidentified · n.d.
Milk Pot
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
The Haunted Stream
John Sartain, born London, England 1808-died Philadelphia, PA 1897 · after 1846
Sugar bowl
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Burning Oil Well at Night, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania
James Hamilton, born near Belfast, Ireland 1819-died San Francisco, CA 1878 · ca. 1861
Teapot
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
A Trout Pool on the Nepignon
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1882
Waste Bowl
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Scene on the Hudson (Rip Van Winkle)
James Hamilton, born near Belfast, Ireland 1819-died San Francisco, CA 1878 · 1845
Coffee Urn
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Dodecatheon meadia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1937
Rim for Waste Bowl
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Dentaria laciniata Muhl.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1937
Tea Strainer
Andrew Ellicott Warner · 1845
Dentaria multifida Muhl. ex Elliott
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1937
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. 152 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 134815 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 2026-09-01 16:17 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.