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. 21 shown for “David Richards, British” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
David
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1408–10
Textile
David Richards, British · ca. 1785
American Barque "Jane Tudor," Conway Bay
David Johnson · ca. 1855
Textile
David Richards, British · ca. 1780
Division Viol
Richard Meares · ca. 1680
Gentiana propinqua Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1885
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Stellaria laeta Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1906
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Stellaria laeta Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1904
David and Abigail
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
Stellaria laeta Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410
Stellaria laeta Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1890
Chimneypiece from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Joseph Wilton · 1760
Stellaria laeta Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1938
Classical Landscape with Roma Figures
John Wootton · 1748
Gentiana propinqua Richards.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1943
Plate with David Anointed by Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
Plate with David Slaying a Lion
Artist not stated in the record · 629–630
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Gerard David · ca. 1512–15
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. 4360 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 216367 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 17:49 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.