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. 12 shown for “Elihu Vedder, born New York City 1836-died Rome, Italy 1923” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
The Cup of Love
Elihu Vedder · 1887
Faces in the Fire
Elihu Vedder · 1887, cast 1888
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
Greek Girls Bathing
Elihu Vedder · 1872–77
The Lost Mind
Elihu Vedder · 1864–65
The Pleiades
Elihu Vedder · 1885
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Lair of the Sea Serpent
Elihu Vedder · ca. 1899
San Gimignano
Elihu Vedder
Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey No. 1
Elihu Vedder · ca. 1867–68
The Fable of the Miller, His Son and the Donkey No. 9
Elihu Vedder · 1860–61
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. 86 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 14:35 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.