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 Raphael Smith” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:36 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.
Joseph Tayadaneega, called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations
John Raphael Smith · February 10, 1779
An Address to the Workmen in the Pottery on the Subject of Entering into the Service of Foreign Manufacturers
Josiah Wedgwood · 1783
Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton
John Raphael Smith · October 11, 1782
The Songstress
John Raphael Smith · 1782
Schoolboys Giving Charity to a Blind Man
John Raphael Smith · 1781
The Sliver Age
John Raphael Smith · January 30, 1778
The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)
John Raphael Smith · March 10, 1785
Raphael
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1651
The First Interview of Werther and Charlotte
John Raphael Smith · October 16, 1782
George Wallis, The Late Celebrated Antiquary and Gunsmith of Hull
John Raphael Smith · June 20, 1804
Miss Lydia Hone – "Her beauty hangs on the Cheek of Night, like a rich Jewel in an Ethiop's Ear"
John Raphael Smith · November 30, 1771
The Sackville Children
John Hoppner · 1796
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. 1285 matched · 24 examined · 1 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 00:36 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.