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 “Hand-illustrated cover” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other Poems
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874
Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944
Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE
Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling · Early sixteenth century
Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944
Picture Book of the Evergreens (Ehon tokiwagusa) 繪本常盤草
Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 · 1731
Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 8, 1944
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Hand-illustrated cover
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944
The Diamond Sutra
Unidentified artist
Working with the Hands
Artist not stated in the record · May 1904
Velvet with Figural Imagery
Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century
Design for the Cover of the Manhattan Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · 1884
("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)
Paul Gauguin · 1889
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Artist not stated in the record · 1885
Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Album of Floral Bouquets Designs
Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1757–68
Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Letter from Jack Fogarty to Mary MacDonald
Artist not stated in the record · April 5, 1945
Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Tom, The Blind Negro Boy Pianist, Only 10 Years Old
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Pilgrim’s Visiting Album
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
The Fugitive Slave Bill
Artist not stated in the record · 1854
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. 323 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 283 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 21:25 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.