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. 13 shown for “Virgin Tiger Moth” — 42 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A tulip, a butterfly of the species Arctia caja (garden tiger moth), and a beetle (possibly a longhorn)
Barbara Regina Dietzsch · ca. 1750-60
Virgin Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record
Tiger Moth card from the Butterflies and Moths of America series
Louis Prang & Co. · 1862–69
Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record · 1976
Harnessed Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record
Isabella Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record · 1977
Banded Tiger Moth
Artist not stated in the record
Episimus vixenus
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1956
Neogalea esula
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1984 to 14 Jul 1984
Neogalea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 1984 to 14 Jul 1984
Episimus chica
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1985 to 18 Jul 1985
Episimus coleus
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Mar 1958
Sketches for “The Prudent Tiger” in “Comic Fables, Out of The World Series”
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · ca. 1877
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24346 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:41 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.