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. 19 shown for “John Varley” — 53 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A View of Chester
John Varley · 1836
Small Landscape (Dutch)
John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · n.d.
Figures beside a waterfall and pool in a wooded landscape
John Varley · 1812
Landscape
John Varley, Sr., English, born Hackney, England 1778-died London, England 1842 · 1835
Fortified entrance to a Welsh town (East gate of Caernarvon)
John Varley · ca. 1802
Portrait of Philip Reese Uhler (1835-1913)
Varley, Thomas P · 1860
On the Thames at Hammersmith
John Varley · ca. 1836
Pemphigus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959
Harlech Castle across the Traeth Mawr
John Varley · 1800–42
Pemphigus sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1959
Bamborough Castle from the Northeast, with Holy Island in the Distance, Northumberland
John Varley · 1827
Grevillea patentiloba F. Muell.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jun 1976
Craig Goch, Moel Hebog, North Wales
Cornelius Varley · ca. 1802
Architeuthis dux
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Oct 2000
Irish cars (Study of two carts in a landscape)
Cornelius Varley · 1800–73
Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, North Wales
George Fennel Robson · 1832
Cattle and sheep at resting at the edge of a forest
George Barret, the younger · ca. 1840
Journey Home
David Cox · 1833
Dover Pier, Kent
David Cox · 1828–40
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 260433 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 06:13 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.