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 “Richard A. Lewis” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Division Viol
Richard Meares · ca. 1680
Lewis Richard Morris
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1798
John L. Burns
Richard A. Lewis · 1860s
Denisophytum buchii (Urb.) Gagnon & G.P. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Aug 1946
Minnehaha
Edmonia Lewis · 1868
Denisophytum pauciflorum (Griseb.) Gagnon & G.P. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1941
Hiawatha
Edmonia Lewis · 1868
Erythrostemon glandulosus (Bertero ex DC.) Gagnon & G.P. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1950
Wine cistern
Lewis Mettayer · 1709–10
Denisophytum pauciflorum (Griseb.) Gagnon & G.P. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Oct 1946 to 24 Oct 1946
Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1789
file cabinet
Artist not stated in the record · 1971-09-03
Richard Thomas III
James Peale · 1796
Clarkia rubicunda (Lindl.) F. H. Lewis & M.R. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott
Sir Richard Westmacott · 19th century
Clarkia williamsonii (Durand & Hilg.) F. H. Lewis & M.E. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 1875
Cruet stand
Lewis and Smith · ca. 1805–11
Neltuma odorata (Torr. & Frém.) C. E. Hughes & G.P. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1934
Caster (one of a set of three)
Lewis Mettayer · 1714/15
Clarkia imbricata F. H. Lewis & M.E. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1958
Dish (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Lewis Mettayer · 1714/15
Clarkia rubicunda (Lindl.) F. H. Lewis & M.R. Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1880
Dish (one of a pair) (part of a set)
Lewis Mettayer · 1714/15
Clarkia speciosa F. H. Lewis & M.E. Lewis subsp. speciosa
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1880
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. 7779 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1824496 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-03 11:49 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.