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 “David Cox” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:00 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 Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Samuel Hanson Cox
Hill & Adamson, active 1843 - 1848 · c. 1843
River Landscape in Wales
David Cox · ca. 1850
Wilson and His Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1916
A Piano Lesson
David Cox · 1800–1859
Woodrow Wilson and his Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1913
Study of an antique armchair
David Cox · 1849
Pellaea truncata Goodd.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959
St. Eustache, Paris
David Cox · 1829
Lupinus prunophilus M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1969
Study of clouds (recto). Study of an elder bush by a fence (verso)
David Cox · 1820–45
General Meade and His Staff
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · 1865
Journey Home
David Cox · 1833
Astrolepis integerrima (Hook.) D.M. Benham & Windham
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959
Greenwich Hospital (recto); Study of a Building (verso)
David Cox · 1820s
Pellaea truncata Goodd.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959
Dover Pier, Kent
David Cox · 1828–40
Lupinus aridus Douglas subsp. aridus
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/6/71
Riders with sheep near an estuary
David Cox · 1830
Myriopteris lindheimeri (Hook.) J. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1959
Driving sheep in a rocky landscape
David Cox · ca. 1846
Kenyon Cox
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907 · 1889
The Young Artists' Companion; or, Drawing-Book of Studies and Landscape Embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons
David Cox · 1825
Kenyon Cox
William A. Coffin, born Allegheny, PA 1855-died New York City 1925
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. 72 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. 88378 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-01 08:00 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.