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 “Portrait of James Gillray” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE
Portrait of James Gillray
Artist not stated in the record · 1819
Portrait
Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century
The National Parachute, or, John Bull Conducted to Plenty and Emancipation
Hannah Humphrey, English, 1742 - 1814 · 1802
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Portrait of a Woman
Quinten Massys · ca. 1520
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus · 1446
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret
James McNeill Whistler · 1883
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Portrait Head Bottle
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Tall Clock
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios
Artist not stated in the record · 250–300
"Democracy, or a Sketch o
James Gillray, 1756 – 1815 · 1800
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
James Wilson
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1825
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75
Album of Portraits of Celebrities
Shoppell, active c. 1882 · c. 1882
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. 2138 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2906586 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 23:43 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.