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 “James Smithson Carte de Visite, London, England, ca. 1826” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 17:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Nativity
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · ca. 1406–10
James Smithson Carte de Visite, London, England, ca. 1826
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1826
Scenes from the Legend of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and the History of His Relics
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1245–47
Charles Sherwood Stratton
London Stereoscopic Co., active 1854 - c. 1902 · 1860
ex "Kurtz" Violin
Andrea Amati · ca. 1560
J. A. M. Whistler
London Stereoscopic Co., active 1854 - c. 1902 · c. 1870
Hortensia
Fernand Khnopff · 1884
Carte-de-visite of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · ca. 1530
Josiah Henson
Bradshaw & Godart, active 1876 - 1878 · 1876
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662
Portrait of Henry James Hungerford (circa 1808-1835)
Unknown · 1880
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
James Gillpatrick Blunt
A. C. Nichols · c. 1863
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510
West Country Mails at the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly
James Pollard, English, 1792 - 1867 · 1828
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510
James Smithson
James Roberts, 1753 - c. 1809 · 1786
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825
Portrait of George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)
Barraud & Jerrard (London, England) · 1875
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Carte-de-visite of the office and quarters of Captain Horace James
Artist not stated in the record · 1865
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. 66 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. 905601 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-04 17:15 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.