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. 12 shown for “Wilkes, Charles” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Charles Le Brun · 1647
Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)
John Scofield · 1792
George Washington before the Battle of Trenton
John Trumbull · ca. 1792–94
Mrs. David Cadwallader Colden
Charles Cromwell Ingham · 1830
Chamberstick with snuffers (one of a pair)
John Scofield · 1792
Mbita-Ni-Tanga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
The General Toast: Honor and Honesty, Love and Loyalty, Fitz and Good Company
Anonymous, British, 18th century · October 20, 1786
Two Pair of Portraits, presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke
James Gillray · December 1, 1798
The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., April 14th, 1865
Currier & Ives · 1865
The Alternative of Williams-Burg
Philip Dawe · February 16, 1775
The Bruiser (Caricature of Charles Churchill)
William Hogarth · August 1, 1762
![[Clown], by Charles DeForest Fredricks](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP325372.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Clown]
Charles DeForest Fredricks · ca. 1860
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:29 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.