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 Johnson, born London, England 1844-died New York City 1904” — 38 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Johnson, born London, England 1844-died New York City 1904 · after 1864
Miniature longcase clock with calendar
Daniel Quare · ca. 1720–25
Jane Eyton
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1904
Watch in the form of a Lesser George
Nicholas Vallin · ca. 1600
Thomas Carlyle
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1904
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
Miss Nelthrop
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1905
Barrel Piano
George Hicks · ca. 1860
Thomas William Vawdrey
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1915
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Karl Friedrich Abel
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1914
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Christian Pilgrim in Sight of Rome
Thomas Crawford, born New York City 1813?-died London, England 1857 · modeled by 1846, carved by 1849
Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro · 1891–92
Bartley Campbell's Picturesque Drama The Galley Slave by Henry Atwell Thomas, 1879
Thomas, Henry Atwell · 1879
Thomas Jefferson
John Trumbull · 1788
Boy with Broken Tambourine
Thomas Crawford, born New York City 1813?-died London, England 1857 · 1854
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79
The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445
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. 212 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 05:49 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.