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 “Samuel Palmer” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:04 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.
Sabrina
Samuel Palmer · 1856
Portrait of Samuel Palmer
Charles West Cope · 1884
The Skylark
Samuel Palmer · 1850
On the North Coast of Devon, Lundy Island in the Distance
Samuel Palmer · ca. 1835
The Willow
Samuel Palmer · 1850
The Early Ploughman
Samuel Palmer · 1861
The Herdsman's Cottage, or Sunset
Samuel Palmer · 1880
The Herdsman's Cottage, or Sunset
Samuel Palmer · 1850
The Lonely Tower
Samuel Palmer · 1879
The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus
Samuel Palmer · begun 1858
The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus
Samuel Palmer · begun 1858
The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning
Samuel Palmer · 1857
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. 73 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. 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 05:04 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.