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 “Frederic Edwin Church” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church · 1859
Frederick Edwin Church
Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1868
The Aegean Sea
Frederic Edwin Church · ca. 1877
Alexander Thomson
Frederic Edwin Church, 4 May 1826 - 7 Apr 1900 · 1846
The Parthenon
Frederic Edwin Church · 1871
Thomas Cole
Frederic Edwin Church, 4 May 1826 - 7 Apr 1900 · 1846
Peace and Plenty
George Inness · 1865
St. Bartholomew's and the Watzmann from the Königssee, Bavaria (Germany)
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1868
Sky – Northern Cuba
Charles Dewolf Brownell · ca. 1853–66
Houses in Alatico, Colombia
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1853
Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE
Hillside and Cloudy Sky, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1865
Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE
Valley in the Alps
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June–September 1868
The White Captive
Erastus Dow Palmer · 1857–58; carved 1858–59
View at Sea near Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 29, 1865
Lake Como, May 3, 1869 (verso, from sketchbook)
Jervis McEntee · 1869
Houses, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865
Altar to the Sun Warrior
Mexico Nahua artist(s) · 1450-1521 CE
Hilltop and Cloudy Sky
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–75
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860
Bird and Hillside with Fire, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1865
Head of a King
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75
Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September - October 1878
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. 100 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. 23147 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 19:56 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.