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. 15 shown for “Frederick Bacon” — 49 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 09:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Lover's Complaint
Frederick Bacon · 1825–40
Escape of Carrara
Frederick Bacon, English, born London, England 1803-died CA 1887
Simonides and Thaisa (Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 2, Scene 2)
Frederick Bacon · 1825–40
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.
Salanio, Salerio and Shylock (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)
John Massey Wright · 1825–40
Nama californica (A. Gray) J.D. Bacon
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 1891
A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study
Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784
Peggy Bacon
Alexander Brook, 14 Jul 1898 - 2 Feb 1980 · 1930
A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study
Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban
Simon van de Passe, c. 1595 - 6 May 1647 · 1618
Award of the Massachusetts Humane Society
Benjamin Wyon · 19th century
Peggy Bacon
Alexander Brook, 14 Jul 1898 - 2 Feb 1980 · c. 1932
Award of the Massachusetts Humane Society
Benjamin Wyon · 19th century
Leonard Bacon and Nathaniel Taylor
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1841
Franklin Bache and George Wood
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1843
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. 9 matched · 9 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 49789 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 09:28 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.