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 How” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of side chairs
Thomas How · ca. 1724–36
Side Chair with Coat of Arms of Fourth Earl of Scarsdale
Thomas How, British, active 1710 - 33 · 1724–36
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899
Men of Progress
Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · c. 1859
"How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Nizami · ca. 1430
Men of Progress
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1863
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Men of Progress
Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · 1862
Pedestal
Thomas How · ca. 1725–35
Dasysiphonia collinsiana (M. Howe) M.M.Cassidy et al.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 1964
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80
Udotea flabellum (J. Ellis & Sol.) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1955
The Last Moments of John Brown
Thomas Hovenden · 1882–84
Gracilaria mammillaris (Mont.) M. Howe in Britton
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 3/4/77
Traveling clock watch with alarm
Thomas Tompion · ca. 1680
Avrainvillea levis M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century
Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G. Gmel.) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1930
How to Escape Losing
Thomas Rowlandson · November 22, 1791
Udotea flabellum (J. Ellis & Sol.) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1995
How to Pluck a Goose
Thomas Rowlandson · June 10, 1802
Udotea flabellum (J. Ellis & Sol.) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 1976
How to Escape Winning
Thomas Rowlandson · November 22, 1791
Galaxaura rugosa (Ellis & Sol.) J.V.Lamouroux
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1909
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. 511 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 130857 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 04:14 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.