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. 13 shown for “John McLean” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Slipper Chair
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855
John McLean
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1857
Table with book carrier (cheveret)
John McLean and Son, London, England · early 19th century
The Fashion Behind but not Behind the Fashion: 1829–T'is Thus to Follow the Mode
William Heath ('Paul Pry') · May 1829
Slipper Chair
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855
Slipper Chair
John Henry Belter · ca. 1855
H(C)annibalism or an Irish Stew
John Doyle · August 5, 1833
The New Parliament Pudding or John Bull's Treat
Anonymous, British, 19th century · ca. 1832
The State Cerberus, A Leaf Out of the Ænead, Freely Translated
John Doyle · December 11, 1834
Little Red-Riding Hood's Meeting With the Wolf
John Doyle · April 3, 1835
The Return from the Continent, or the Family Puzzled
John Phillips · 1835
Dry Nurses
John Doyle · July 21, 1838
The Funeral of Tory-principle: Dutifully Dedicated to the Holy Alliance
John Doyle · April 1827
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. 94 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. 265090 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:55 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.