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. 12 shown for “Benjamin West, 10 Oct 1738 - 11 Mar 1820” — 40 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin West and Family
George & Johan Facius, 1776 - 1802? · 1779
West Family in the Studio Garden
Benjamin West, 10 Oct 1738 - 11 Mar 1820 · 1808-09
Benjamin West and Family
D. P. Pariset, 1740 - 1840? · 1781
Benjamin West
Unidentified Artist · 1795
Benjamin West
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, 1785 - 1836 · 1827
Benjamin West
Burnet Reading, active 1776 - 1822 · 1792
B. West, R.A.
William Pether, 1731 - 1795?
Benjamin West
Jonathan Spilsbury, 1737 - 1812 · c. 1765
Benjamin West
William Behnes, 1794 - 1864 · 1820
Benjamin West
Artist not stated in the record · 1770
Benjamin West
Caroline Watson, 1760 - 1814 · 1786
Robert Fulton
William Satchwell Leney, 16 Jan 1769 - 26 Nov 1831 · 1815
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3072228 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-29 09:33 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.