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 “D. Appleton & Co.” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Artistic houses : being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States : with a description of the art treasures contained therein
D. Appleton & Co. · 1883–84
Whalers
Robert Brandard · 1879–80
The Mirror
Goupil & Co. · 1890
Mary, Queen of Scots led to execution, from "The Art Journal," New Series volume 1, plate 11, page 144
Peter Lightfoot · 1875
Charlotte Corday
Goupil & Co. · 1890
The Architecture of Country Houses; including Designs for Cottages, Farm Houses, and Villas
Andrew Jackson Downing · 1850
The Last Toilet of Charlotte Corday
Lumb Stocks · 1869 or after
Danger Ahead (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. III)
Winslow Homer · April 30, 1870
The Picnic Excursion (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
Winslow Homer · August 14, 1869
On the Road to Lake George (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
Winslow Homer · July 24, 1869
Summer in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
Winslow Homer · July 10, 1869
The Fishing Party (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. II)
Winslow Homer · October 2, 1869
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. 37 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:38 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.