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. 19 shown for “John Forbes Watson” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458
John Forbes Watson · 1873–80
Mrs. Kate A. Moore
John Singer Sargent, American, b. Florence, Italy, 1856–1925 · 1884
Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley · ca. 1778
Indicator minor
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1950
Plateau
John W. Forbes · ca. 1825
Treron waalia
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Apr 1964
Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1789
Potentilla gracilis var. fastigiata (Nutt.) S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 2011
The union of architecture, sculpture, and painting; exemplified by a series of illustrations, with descriptive accounts of the house and galleries of John Soane ... / by John Britton
John Britton · 1827
Hipposideros ruber
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1965
Firescreen
John La Farge · 1884
Creamer
John W. Forbes · 1810–20
Pipistrellus inexspectatus
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1966
Mug
John W. Forbes · 1820–30
Jug
John W. Forbes · ca. 1810
Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century
Boy with a Stick
Elizabeth Forbes · 1881–83
Mrs. Jerathmael Bowers
John Singleton Copley · ca. 1763
Viverricula indica
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1964
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. 194 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. 303030 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 09:31 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.