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. 19 shown for “Robert Dighton the Elder” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Yachtsman
Robert Dighton, the Younger · 1806–65
Tom Molineaux
Robert D. Dighton, 1752 - 1814 · 1812
April / Avril
Richard Earlom · ca. 1781
Old Man with a Staff
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
A fencing master (recto); sketch of a man's head (verso)
Robert Dighton the Elder · 1790–1814
Head of an Old Man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
A coachman (recto); ships and rowboats (verso)
Robert Dighton the Elder · 1790–1814
A Vocal Concert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
June / Juin
Richard Earlom · [ca. 1781] later reissue
Buteo lineatus
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1909
Five in the Morning
Robert Dighton the Elder · June 18, 1795
Robert Edward Lee
John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895 · 1876
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
The Angel Appearing to Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–1805
I've Got de Monish
Robert Dighton the Elder · [1792] reissue 1793 or later
Venus and Cupid
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1525–27
The Pit Door / La Porte du Parterre
Robert Dighton the Elder · November 9, 1784
Princess Elizabeth (1596–1662), Later Queen of Bohemia
Robert Peake the Elder · ca. 1606
The Judgment of Paris
Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528
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. 195 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1299546 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 14:19 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.