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 “Josiah Wood Whymper” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787
Pedicularis resupinata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1865 to 1866
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, New York, from "Harper's Weekly"
Josiah Wood Whymper · April 10, 1880
Betula pendula Roth
Artist not stated in the record
![[Josiah Wood Whymper], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-363.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Josiah Wood Whymper]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s
Bryum caespiticium Hedw.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1913
Lemuel Shaw
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850
Myotis brandtii gracilis
Artist not stated in the record
Pagoda and Case
Artist not stated in the record · Qing dynasty (1644–1911), ca. 1784–92
Psarisomus dalhousiae
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1903
The Dispatch-Bearer
Giovanni Boldini · ?1879
Werneria pumila Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 1995
Cane side chair
Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710
Nassella mucronata (Kunth) R.W. Pohl
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Sep 1998
Soldier Playing the Theorbo
Ernest Meissonier · 1865
Hypochaeris sessiflora Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1983
Portrait of an Old Man
Francisco Domingo y Marqués · 1882
Bidens andicola Kunth
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1983
The Music Room
Mihály Munkácsy · 1878
Loricaria ilinissae (Benth.) Cuatrec.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1983
A Dragoon on Horseback
Edouard Detaille · 1876
Lucilia kunthiana (DC.) Zardini
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1983
Clarinet in C
Graves & Company · ca. 1845
Baccharis caespitosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1983
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. 31 matched · 24 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. 223364 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 04:49 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.