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 “Henri Merke” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Magic Lantern
Henri Merke · January 30, 1799
Dioryctria merkeli
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1992
Cries of London: No.1: Buy a Trap, a Rat-Trap
Henri Merke · January 1, 1799
Neodiprion merkeli
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1958
Cries of London, No. 3: Last Dying Speech and Confession
Henri Merke · February 20, 1799
Viola acutifolia (Kar. & Kir.) W. Becker
Artist not stated in the record · 1895 to 1896
Cries of London, No. 5: Come Buy My Watercresses
Henri Merke · March 1, 1799
Carex manginii E.G. Camus
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1898
Cries of London, No. 7, Old Clothes
Henri Merke · May 4, 1799
Epilobium palustre L.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1983
Cries of London, No. 8: Hot Cross Buns
Henri Merke · March 4, 1799
Epilobium confusum Hausskn.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1983
Cries of London, No. 2: Buy my Goose, my fat Goose
Henri Merke · January 1, 1799
Thlaspi ferganense N. Busch
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jul 1952
Cries of London, No. 4: Do You Want Any Brickdust?
Henri Merke · February 20, 1799
Phleum paniculatum Huds.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1909
Cries of London, No. 6: All a growing, here's Flowers
Henri Merke · March 1, 1799
Hutchinsia sisymbtioides Regel & Herder
Artist not stated in the record · -- --- 187-
No. 2: Sailor
Henri Merke · February 15, 1799
Gurania bignoniacea (Poepp. & Endl.) C. Jeffrey
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 2001
No. 4: Cook
Henri Merke · February 15, 1799
Post Office Act of 1794 publication
Artist not stated in the record · 1794
No. 10: Captain of Marines
Henri Merke · February 15, 1799
Key Haven to New York folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · May 4, 1813
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. 24 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. 115536 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 22:15 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.