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 “Edward Finden, English, born London, England 1791-died London, England 1857” — 43 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena
P R · 1741
Sheep Washing
Edward Finden, English, born London, England 1791-died London, England 1857
Watch in the form of a Lesser George
Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600
Slave
Edward Finden, English, born London, England 1791-died London, England 1857 · 1828
Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65
Interior of a Highlander's Cottage
William Finden, English, born London, England 1787-died London, England 1852
Miniature longcase clock with calendar
Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25
The Thunderstorm
William Finden, English, born London, England 1787-died London, England 1852 · n.d.
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885
Mrs. Littleton
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
William Caxton--Examining First Proof Sheet from His Printing Press in Westminster Abbey, A.D. 1474
Frederick Bacon, English, born London, England 1803-died CA 1887 · n.d.
Pocket watch
Robert Roskell · 1820–21
The Taming of the Shrew
Charles Rolls, English, born 1800-died 1857
Mary, Queen of Scots
Edward Francis Finden · 19th century
John Proclaiming the Messiah
John Outrim, English, born 1810-died after 1874
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre
Samuel Freeman, English, born London, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · n.d.
The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The Ferry
Edward Goodall, English, born Leeds, England 1795-died London, England 1870
The History and Description of Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, the seat of the Earl of Essex
John Britton · 1837
Letter to U. S. President James Buchanan, March 24, 1862
Edward, Prince of Wales, English, born London, England 1841-died London, England 1910 · 1862
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2
Rudolph Ackermann, London · July–December 1809
Rembrandt's Mill
Charles Turner, English, born Woostock, England 1773-died London, England 1857 · ca. 1823
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. 138 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 18:22 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.