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 “George Gordon, Lord Byron” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:15 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.
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820
A Deerhound
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer · 1826
Hidden silhouette: the spirit of Byron in the Greek Isles
Henry Burn · ca. 1825
Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal
John Doyle · May 14, 1838
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)
Horace Vernet · probably 1822 or 1823
The Upsetting of the Reform Coach
John Doyle · June 4, 1834
Western Gentleman in Oriental Costume
British Painter
Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)
Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35
The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
John Ruskin · ca. 1866
![The Reply: A Complimentory [sic] Hieroglyphic Epistle from the Honorable Henry Laurens to Lord George Gordon, by Henry Laurens](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP876970.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Reply: A Complimentory [sic] Hieroglyphic Epistle from the Honorable Henry Laurens to Lord George Gordon
Henry Laurens · 1781
The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796
Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE
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. 30 matched · 24 examined · 2 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 2026-08-27 03:15 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.