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. 23 shown for “A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1798
The Adoration of the Magi
Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto · ca. 1340–43
Life and Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
Artist not stated in the record
Box with Romance Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Artist not stated in the record
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
Pieter Claesz · 1628
An Adventure in Vermont
Artist not stated in the record
Book of the Gospels
Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Artist not stated in the record · 1789; republished 1837
Platter
Bernard Palissy · last quarter 16th century
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Artist not stated in the record · 1845
The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35
Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master
Artist not stated in the record
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537
A Modern Atlas of Fourteen Maps
Artist not stated in the record
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Frontispiece to "A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery"
John Cochran, 1821 - 1865 · 1843
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
The Life and Military Character of Maj. Gen. Scott
Artist not stated in the record
Holy Family with an Angel
Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490
Letter from Josheph Johnson
Artist not stated in the record
Shrine of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300
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. 2416 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 4330850 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:51 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.