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 Lear” — 58 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Catania and Mount Etna
Edward Lear · 1847
Lear Green Escaping in a Chest
Unidentified Artist · 1872
View of St. Peter's, Rome
Edward Lear · 1843
Lear Jet 23
Lear Jet Corporation · 1964-1966
View of Sciacca, Sicily
Edward Lear · May 20, 1847
Lear and Cordelia
Richard Hatfield, English, born London, England 1809-died London, England 1867 · 1845
Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Edward Lear · 1850–85
King Lear in the Storm
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877 · ca. 1842
Pentedatelo, Calabria, Italy
Edward Lear · 1847 (?)
Edwin Forrest as King Lear in "King Lear"
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1861
Agia Paraskevi, Epirus, Greece
Edward Lear · April 13, 1857
Cordelia
Pierce Francis Connelly, born Grand Coteau 1841-died Rome, Italy 1932 · 1865
Monastir
Edward Lear · September 19, 1848
Helianthus pumilis Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 1876
Eclectus Roratus Polychloros
Edward Lear · ca. 1830–32
Handscreen
Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century
Peasant women from Ragusa
Edward Lear · 1866 (?)
Adoxa moschatellina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Aug 1897
Bracciano, plate 2 from "Views of Rome and Its Environs"
Edward Lear · 1841
Coragyps atratus
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1917
King Lear
William Sharp · 1783
Mustela erminea richardsonii
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Mr. Fleming as Edgar: "Away! the foul fiend follows me" (King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)
Samuel Hollyer · 1855
Ulmus crassifolia Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1940
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. 18 matched · 18 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. 126264 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 2026-09-04 12:44 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.