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. 22 shown for “Thomas Hicks” — 50 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mrs. Thomas Hicks
Thomas Hicks · ca. 1884
Thomas Hicks
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Mexican Girl Dying
Thomas Crawford · By 1846; carved 1848
Thomas Hicks
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Genius of Mirth
Thomas Crawford · 1842; carved 1843
Thomas Hicks
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Hicks · early 19th century
Thomas Hicks
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Hicks · 1829
Thomas Hicks
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Portrait of a Man
Thomas Hicks · ca. 1850
Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1864
The Branded Bully, or the Ass Stripp'd of the Lion's Skin
Thomas Rowlandson · 1786
Edward Hicks Painting the Peaceable Kingdom
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1839
A Box Lobby Hero, The Branded Bully, or The Ass Stripp'd of the Lion's Skin.
Thomas Rowlandson · May 1786
Edwin Booth
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1863
Trade Card for Rothwell & Hicks, engravers
Anonymous, British, 18th century · 18th century
Unidentified Man
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1856
Peuplier plante par Thomas Paine and Le Pont des Sauvages, Point-Breeze (Poplar Tree Planted by Thomas Paine and The Native Bridge at Point Breeze, near Bordentown, New Jersey)
Charlotte Bonaparte · 1826
(Small Landscape)
Thomas Hicks, born Newtown, PA 1823-died Trenton Falls, NY 1890 · 1862
Samuel Jones Tilden
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · c. 1870
Samuel Jones Tilden
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · c. 1870
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 120255 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 2026-08-27 16:36 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.