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 “John Hesselius, 1728 - 9 Apr 1778” — 40 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
John Hesselius, 1728 - 9 Apr 1778 · c. 1760-70
Rev. Richard Brown
John Hesselius, born Philadelphia, PA 1728-died Annapolis, MD 1778 · ca. 1760
Mrs. Richard Brown
John Hesselius, born Philadelphia, PA 1728-died Annapolis, MD 1778 · ca. 1760
James Lloyd
Artist not stated in the record · 1828
Spray of Flowers
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760
Dr. John Warren
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1828
Bombus (Pyrobombus) ardens
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1957
John Brooks
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860 · 1828
Anhinga anhinga
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1902
Title-page from Recueil de Differents Panneaux Chinois Inventé et Dessiné par jean Pillement
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760
Fissidens debilis Schwägr.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Apr 1945
Small Landscape (Dutch)
John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · n.d.
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1676865 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 22:16 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.