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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. 24 shown for “Philip Henry Delamotte” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:30 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Views of the Crystal Palace, by Philip Henry Delamotte

Views of the Crystal Palace

Philip Henry Delamotte · ca. 1859

Public domainThe Met
Napoleon III, Eugenie, Victoria Queen of England, and Albert, by Phillip Henry Delamotte, 21 Apr 1821 - 24 Feb 1889

Napoleon III, Eugenie, Victoria Queen of England, and Albert

Phillip Henry Delamotte, 21 Apr 1821 - 24 Feb 1889 · April 20, 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Carving a Sphinx], by Philip Henry Delamotte

[Carving a Sphinx]

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923

Philip Henry Sheridan

Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening, by Philip Henry Delamotte

Evening

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879

Philip Henry Sheridan

Charles Magnus, active c. 1854 - 1879 · c. 1863-64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View in Central Hall, Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, by Philip Henry Delamotte

View in Central Hall, Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1857

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907

Philip Henry Sheridan

Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · c. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[The Grounds Looking Towards Penge], by Philip Henry Delamotte

[The Grounds Looking Towards Penge]

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Thomas Buchanan Read, 12 Mar 1822 - 11 May 1872

Philip Henry Sheridan

Thomas Buchanan Read, 12 Mar 1822 - 11 May 1872 · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visit of the Emperor and Empress to the Crystal Palace, by Philip Henry Delamotte

The Visit of the Emperor and Empress to the Crystal Palace

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1855

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896

Philip Henry Sheridan

Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Storeroom with Artisans and Plaster Casts, Crystal Palace], by Philip Henry Delamotte

[Storeroom with Artisans and Plaster Casts, Crystal Palace]

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Philip Henry Sheridan

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, by Philip Henry Delamotte

Progress of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by Plymon B. Greene, 1800 - 1900

Philip Henry Sheridan

Plymon B. Greene, 1800 - 1900 · c. 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Upper Gallery, by Philip Henry Delamotte

The Upper Gallery

Philip Henry Delamotte · 1854

Public domainThe Met
Philip Henry Sheridan, by David R. Hoag

Philip Henry Sheridan

David R. Hoag · c. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fountains Abbey. The Refectory and Kitchen, by Joseph Cundall

Fountains Abbey. The Refectory and Kitchen

Joseph Cundall · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Philip H. Sheridan

Philip H. Sheridan

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kirkstall Abbey. Ruins on the South Side, by Joseph Cundall

Kirkstall Abbey. Ruins on the South Side

Joseph Cundall · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Philip H. Sheridan

Philip H. Sheridan

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rivaulx Abbey. Interior of the Choir, by Joseph Cundall

Rivaulx Abbey. Interior of the Choir

Joseph Cundall · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
Philip H. Sheridan

Philip H. Sheridan

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 421 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. 122113 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 20:30 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.

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Section 01Character index9 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.