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. 16 shown for “Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872” — 44 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:30 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 Student
Thomas Sully · 1839
Charles Stewart
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1817
Diagram of the Colors Used to Paint the Portrait of Queen Victoria
Thomas Sully · ca. 1838
Thomas Sully's price list
Artist not stated in the record · February 27, 1830
William Gwynn
Thomas Sully · 1821
Michael Gratz
William Edward West, 10 Dec 1788 - 2 Nov 1857 · after 1808
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)
John Hoppner · 1793
Simon Snyder
David Edwin, 1776 - 1841 · 1812
Thomas Ash II
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1807
Reverend William White
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1830
Thomas Sully
Unidentified Artist · 1854
Thomas Sully's palette
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1840
James Pollard Espy
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1849
Mrs. Thomas M. Randolph
J. Rogers · 1855
Thomas Sully
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Colonel Jonathan F. Williams
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872 · 1815
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3789464 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-01 14:30 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.