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. 23 shown for “John W. Forbes” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 10:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Plateau
John W. Forbes · ca. 1825
Metrosideros polymorpha var. glaberrima (H. Lév.) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1913
Creamer
John W. Forbes · 1810–20
Metrosideros polymorpha var. glaberrima (H. Lév.) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · May 1910
Mug
John W. Forbes · 1820–30
Metrosideros polymorpha var. incana H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · May 1910
Jug
John W. Forbes · ca. 1810
Melicope peduncularis (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1910
Caster
William Forbes · ca. 1840
Melicope feddei (H. Lév.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1917 to 18 Aug 1917
Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series : Kincobs, Nos. 401 to 458
John Forbes Watson · 1873–80
Cyrtandra calpidicarpa (Rock) H. St. John & Storey x C. propinqua C.N. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record
Table Spoon
William G. Forbes · 1770–1800
Euphorbia rockii C.N. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1937
Tetradium daniellii (Benn.) T.G. Hartley
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 2007
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
Kadua fluviatilis C.N. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Feb 1931
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Clermontia hanaensis H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1920
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14
Kadua fluviatilis C.N. Forbes
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1947
Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
Geniostoma kaalae (C.N. Forbes) K. L. Gibbons et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1955
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. 6605 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 1141414 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 10:56 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.