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. 19 shown for “Edward Strahan (Earl Shinn)” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mr. Vanderbilt's house and collection
Edward Strahan (Earl Shinn) · 1883–84
Aristida sorzogonensis f. orizabensis (E. Fourn.) Strahan & Allred
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1921
The Japanese Robe
Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872
Aristida sorzogonensis f. orizabensis (E. Fourn.) Strahan & Allred
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1952
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Charles-Théodore Frère · by 1880
Portrait of Claude Hamilton, Earl of Paisley
Artist not stated in the record · 1800
Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873
Meandrina brasiliensis
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1974
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70
Edward Rutledge
Unidentified Artist · 1802
Woman with a Rake
Jean-François Millet · probably 1856–57
Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1618
The Turkish Patrol
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · ca. 1855–56
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 2004
The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel · 1875
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1868–69
Prayer in the Mosque
Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874
A Bashi-Bazouk
Charles Bargue · 1875
Arabs Crossing a Ford
Eugène Fromentin · 1873
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. 48 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 144701 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 10:19 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.