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. 22 shown for “Letter to Colonel Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates” — 50 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Letter to Colonel Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · July 11, 1776
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
Letter to Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 14, 1789
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later
Letter to General Edward Hand from Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · November 5, 1782
Derick Berck of Cologne
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1536
Letter to General Edward Hand by Jasper Yeates
Artist not stated in the record · December 6, 1789
Triton
Giambologna · 1590s
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · October 21-23, 1837
Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Giambologna · model ca. 1579; cast possibly late 16th century
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · August 29, 1839
The Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s
Folded letter by US Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards
Artist not stated in the record · July 15-17, 1837
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1651–54
Officer of the Guard order issued to John H. Alexander
Artist not stated in the record · October 10, 1887
Venus and Adonis
Peter Paul Rubens · probably mid-1630s
Letter to Oscar W. Price from Colonel Charles Young
Artist not stated in the record · July 14, 1918
The Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Letter to Oscar W. Price from Colonel Charles Young
Artist not stated in the record · January 21, 1918
Letter to Oscar W. Price from Colonel Charles Young
Artist not stated in the record · March 27, 1919
Letter describing defeat of slave catchers in a battle with ten fugitives
Artist not stated in the record · November 9,1858
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. 1211034 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-08 10:54 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.