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. 14 shown for “Richard M. Ferris” — 64 records examined, 45 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 14:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pipe Organ
Richard M. Ferris · ca. 1850
Cyperus sanguinolentus Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1993
Division Viol
Richard Meares · ca. 1680
The Ferry
Edward Goodall, English, born Leeds, England 1795-died London, England 1870
The letters of Sir Richard Westmacott
Sir Richard Westmacott · 19th century
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57
Proof guinea of George III
Richard Yeo · 1761
Roadside Halt
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1826
La Photographie ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations
Edouard Baldus · 1870s
Tullia Driving Her Chariot over the Body of Her Father
Ciro Ferri · ca. 1655–70
Richard Watson Gilder, Helena de Kay Gilder, and Rodman de Kay Gilder
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · modeled 1879, cast ca. 1883–84
The Circumcision
Ciro Ferri · 1634–89
Fragments of a cart or chariot, crossed cylinders
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE
Fragments of a cart or chariot, crossed cylinders
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–480 BCE
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. 2422 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. 1242891 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 14:23 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.