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 “Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848” — 54 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Thomas Cole · 1836
Imaginary River Landscape
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
Clouds
Thomas Cole · ca. 1838
Imaginary River Landscape with Wooded Banks
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
View on the Catskill—Early Autumn
Thomas Cole · 1836–37
Imaginary Landscape with Palm Trees
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870-75
Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)
Thomas Cole · 1836
Imaginary Landscape with View of a Lake
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
The Titan's Goblet
Thomas Cole · 1833
Imaginary River Landscape with a Boat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
Thomas Cole
Henry Kirke Brown · by 1850
Imaginary Landscape with Ruined Tower and Bridge
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
Sideboard Table
Thomas Seymour · 1805–10
Imaginary Landscape with Waterfall
Thomas Cole, American, b. England, 1801–1848 · 1870–75
A View near Tivoli (Morning)
Thomas Cole · 1832
Imaginary Landscape with Castle
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
Landscape with Tower (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Cole
Imaginary Landscape with Castle
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
Shipwreck
Thomas Cole
Imaginary Landscape with a Boat
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst
Thomas Cole · 1843
Imaginary Landscape with Castle
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
The Mountain Ford
Thomas Cole · 1846
Imaginary Coastal Landscape with Tower
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75
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. 240 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 30 matched · 30 examined · 2 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.