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 “Johann Theodor de Bry” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:47 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.
Annunciation
Johann Theodor de Bry · ca. 1580–1600
The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone
Johann Theodor de Bry
Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for Knife Handles with an Armed Woman and Susanna and the Elders, from Mansches de Coutiaus
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for Four Knife Handles with Title
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for Knife Handles with Ovals Containing Fortitude and the Death of Lucretia
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Peasant Couples Dancing
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Pendant Design with Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes, from Des Pendants de Cleffs pour les Femmes
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for a Knife Handle with the Marriage at Cana
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Design for a Knife Handle with the Temptation of Adam and Eve
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1580–1600
Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from "Secular Emblems" (Emblemata Saecularia)
Johann Theodor de Bry · 1592–1614
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. 168 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 2026-08-27 21:47 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.