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 “James Gillray” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 13:02 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.
The Graces in a High Wind – a Scene taken from Nature in Kensington Gardens
James Gillray · May 28, 1810
Studies of Four Englishmen, after James Gillray
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1817–25
The Gout
James Gillray · May 14, 1799
Cymon and Iphigenia
James Gillray · 1796
A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton
James Gillray · January 5, 1803
Spanish Patriots Attacking the French Banditti – Loyal Britons Lending a Lift
James Gillray · 1808
Uncorking Old Sherry
James Gillray · March 10, 1805
The Wounded Lion
James Gillray · July 16, 1805
The Esplanade
James Gillray · June 1, 1797
Despair
James Gillray · April 8, 1802
French Liberty – British Slavery
James Gillray · December 21, 1792
Germans Eating Sour-Krout
James Gillray · May 7, 1803
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. 119 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 13:02 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.