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. 21 shown for “Thomas Hovenden” — 51 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Last Moments of John Brown
Thomas Hovenden · 1882–84
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thomas Hovenden, 1840 - 1895 · c. 1885
Jerusalem the Golden
Thomas Hovenden · 1892–94
Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Thomas Hovenden, born Dunmanway, Ireland 1840-died Plymouth Meeting, PA 1895 · 1890
Study of two female figures
Thomas Hovenden
Studies of Arms
Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895
Study of a Man
Thomas Hovenden
Still Life with Fan and Roses
Thomas Hovenden, born Dunmanway, Ireland 1840-died Plymouth Meeting, PA 1895 · 1874
Standing Woman with Man in Outline
Thomas Hovenden
Dem was good ole days
Thomas Hovenden, born Dunmanway, Ireland 1840-died Plymouth Meeting, PA 1895 · 1885
Sketch of Arm and Sketch of Two Hands
Thomas Hovenden
Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890
Unidentified Artist · 1890
The Village Blacksmith
Thomas Hovenden · ca. 1885
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1819
Study for "John Brown in Prison"
Thomas Hovenden · ca. 1884
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1809
Standing Woman
Thomas Hovenden · ca. 1881–82
Thomas Jefferson
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1905
Thomas Jefferson
Unidentified Artist · c. 1801
Thomas Jefferson
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1802
Thomas Jefferson
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119233 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-28 06:56 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.