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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 “Views of West Point. Hudson River Scenery.” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 16:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Hudson River Scene
John Frederick Kensett · 1857
Views of West Point. Hudson River Scenery.
Artist not stated in the record · 1873-1877
West Point (No. 16 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill · 1825
Rain over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · possibly July 1866
Stele of Ushumgal and Shara-igizi-Abzu
Artist not stated in the record · 2900–2700 BCE
West Point from Castle Rock, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1882 - 1885
View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point (No. 15 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1825
Hudson River at Cold Spring
Johann Hermann Carmiencke, born Hamburg, Germany 1810-died Brooklyn, NY 1867 · 1861
View Near Fort Montgomery (No. 22 (later changed to No. 18) of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill · 1822
View Across the Hudson River at Sunset, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1885–90
Picturesque Views / Newburg / Hudson River
James and Ralph Clews · ca. 1825–ca. 1834
Storm King, Northern Entrance to the Highlands, Hudson River
Edwin Whitefield, American, born England, 1816 - 1892 · 1842–1853
Picturesque Views / Newburg / Hudson River
James and Ralph Clews · ca. 1825–ca. 1834
View From the Ruins of the Fort of Currah, on the River Ganges, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
Picturesque Views / Hudson / Hudson River
James and Ralph Clews · 1815–34
North East View of the Cotsea Bhaug, On the River Jumna, Delhi, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
View Near Fishkill (No. 17 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Hill · 1823–24
S.E. View of the Fakeers Rock In The River Ganges, Near Sultaungunge, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
The Hudson River Portfolio
William Guy Wall · 1821–25
S.W. View of the Fakeer's Rock In the River Ganges, Near Sultaungunge, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
Christ's Descent into Hell
Hieronymus Bosch
Part of the City of Patna, on the River Ganges, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS / HUDSON RIVER
Enoch Wood & Sons · ca. 1818–ca. 1846
The Mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, At Moneah, On the River Soane, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803
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. 123 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 4030753 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 16:11 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.