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 “Joseph Farington” — 50 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dumbarton Rock from the South
Joseph Farington · 1788
Jacob and Laban (Il Ponti)
Artist not stated in the record · 1783
At Nunnery in Cumberland
Joseph Farington · August 20, 1786
Artemisia tridentata Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1931
Corra Linn, the Falls of the Clyde
Joseph Farington · 1788
Cottage on the Road from Lausanne to Geneva
Joseph Farington · ca. 1800
Dogs and Still Life
Pierre Charles Canot · 1778
R.A.'s of Genius Reflecting on the True Line of Beauty, at the Life Academy Somerset House
Thomas Rowlandson · June 1, 1824
Saint John the Baptist with flowers
Simon-François Ravenet · 1775
Dogs and Still Life
Pierre Charles Canot · 1778
Joseph Carreras
John Faber, the Younger · 1735
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 84319 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 14:45 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.