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 Vanderlyn” — 63 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 22:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
John Vanderlyn · 1818–19
The Landing of Columbus
John Vanderlyn, born Kingston, NY 1775-died Kingston, NY 1852 · ca. 1840
Portrait of the Artist
John Vanderlyn · 1800
James Monroe
Joseph Castel, French, born Nice, France 1798-died Rome, Italy 1856 · ca. 1818
Mrs. Marinus Willett and Her Son Marinus, Jr.
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1802
Samuel Ringgold
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852 · c. 1825
The Calumny of Apelles
John Vanderlyn · 1849
Joel Barlow
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852 · 1798
John A. Sidell
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1830
Col. George Gibbs III
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852 · c. 1806-08
Francis Lucas Waddell
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1837
James Monroe
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852 · 1816
Elizabeth Maria Church
John Vanderlyn · 1799
Zachary Taylor
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852 · c. 1850-52
Sarah Russell Church (daughter of Edward Church)
John Vanderlyn · 1799
Caius Marius on the Ruins of Carthage
Stephen Alonzo Schoff, born Danville, VT 1818-died Norfolk, CT 1904
Egbert Benson
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1794
Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt
Cephas Thompson, 1 Jul 1775 - 6 Nov 1856 · c. 1809-10
Portrait of the Artist
John Vanderlyn · 1775–1852
Cabinet card of an unidentified infant in a Christening gown by J.P. Ball & Son
Artist not stated in the record · 1887-1900
Mrs. Daniel Strobel, Jr. (Anna Church Strobel) and Her Son, George
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1799
Landing of Columbus
American Bank Note Co. · ca. 1870
Daniel Strobel, Jr.
John Vanderlyn · ca. 1799
William Wirt
Cephas Thompson, 1 Jul 1775 - 6 Nov 1856 · c. 1809-10
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. 23 matched · 23 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. 260388 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-27 22:13 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.