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 “Portrait of Sir James Thornhill” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 41–54 CE
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1759–1801)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1782
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801
Sir James Dashwood (1715–1779)
Enoch Seeman the Younger · 1737
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Design for a Baptism of Christ in an Architectural Setting
Sir James Thornhill · early 18th century
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. 176 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 21:28 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.