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 “John Gibson” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bust of a gentleman
John Gibson · ca. 1830–40
Henry Baldwin and John Gibson
Auguste Edouart, 1788 - 1861 · 1842
Letter from John Gibson to John Udny, containing information for Henry Farnum
John Gibson · January 9, 1850
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Sir William Boxall, 1800 - 1879 · 1857
Letters to Henry Farnum from John Gibson and Benjamin Spence
John Gibson · March 24, 1850
Crataegus mollis (Torr. & A. Gray) Scheele
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1901
Rev. Moir and John Gibson
Hill and Adamson · 1843–1847
John Singer Sargent
Charles Dana Gibson, 14 Sep 1867 - 29 Dec 1944 · c. 1910-20
Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch
Luigi Saulini · mid-19th century
Fire Engine Plate, "John Agnew, Builder"
unknown · 1850
Sketch of a statue: Bacchante by Bartolini
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Siphonoglossa sessilis (Jacq.) D.N. Gibson
Artist not stated in the record
Sketch of Three Vases
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Plathemis lydia
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jul 1927
Sketch of a statue: Venus Entering the Bath
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Libellula pulchella
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1929
Sketch of a statue: Guardian Angel
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Ischnura (Anomalagrion) hastata
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1929
Design for a sarcophagus with two mourning figures
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Sympetrum vicinum
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1929
Sketches of three statues: Diana, Nymph Bathing and Cupid and Pysche
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Pachydiplax longipennis
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1927
Sketches of two statues: Angel of War and Angel of Peace
John Gibson · ca. 1850
Sympetrum vicinum
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1929
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. 77 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 264599 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-02 17:47 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.