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 “William F. Stratton, 1803 - 1846” — 44 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo · ca. 1665–72

The Bloody Massacre
William F. Stratton, 1803 - 1846 · 1832 facsimile after 1770 original

Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of Asturias
Goya · ca. 1800

Mme. Ceulino
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04
![Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846, by Nathaniel Currier](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP853636.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846
Nathaniel Currier · 1846

J.P. Dahmer
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Matthew Sully
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Strattons, G.W.M. Nutt, and William Harrigan
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

G.W.M. Nutt, Charles and Lavinia Stratton, and William Harrigan
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Rev. F. Lennon
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

E.F. Bocquet
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

René Louis Trudeau
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Euphémie Fusélier de la Claire Zerban
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Mme. Marie Anne Euphrasie "Anna" Marchand Isnard
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

Susan Beverly Randolph Taylor
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 907215 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 2026-08-28 22:31 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.