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 “Thomas Doughty” — 64 records examined, 50 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 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 River Glimpse
Thomas Doughty · ca. 1843–50
Landscape with Stream and Mountains
Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856 · 1833
On the Hudson
Thomas Doughty · 1830–35
River View with Hunters and Dogs
Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856 · ca. 1850
River Scene (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Doughty · 1840
Study from Nature
Thomas Doughty, American, 1793–1856 · 1833
Spring Landscape
Thomas Doughty · ca. 1853–56
The Battlefield of Brandywine
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Naganori · blade, late 13th–early 14th century; mounting, 18th–early 19th century
Mount Vernon
Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856 · 1832
The Capitol. Washington, D.C.
Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856 · 1832
Quails or Partridges
Childs & Inman · ca 1830
Red Fox
Childs & Inman · ca 1830
Bill of sale for Hannah and her children, Clarinda and Stephen
Artist not stated in the record · March 3, 1800
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. 42 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119273 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 07:07 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.