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. 24 shown for “Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II
Artist not stated in the record · 1828
The Source of the Loue
Gustave Courbet · 1864
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. IV
Artist not stated in the record
Declaration of Independence
Asher Brown Durand · 1820–23
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. V
Artist not stated in the record
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. III
Artist not stated in the record · 1824
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Matilda Elizabeth Schmahl, born Newark, NJ 1837-died Shandaken, NY 1906 · 1852
Vanitas Still Life
Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603
Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776.
Centennial Portrait and Autograph Co. · 1874
The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320
Richard Henry Lee
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · c. 1795-1805
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
The Declaration of Independence lithograph by Napoleaon Sarony after John Trumbull
Artist not stated in the record · 1843-1853
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Declaration of Independence
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1778
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60
Congress Voting Independence
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · c. 1803 (1906 restrike)
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Declaration of Independence Desk
Randolph, Benjamin · 1775-1776
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 22 Sep 1725 - 1 Apr 1802 · c. 1785
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. 447 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3852156 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 2026-08-28 22:17 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.