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 “William Edward West, 10 Dec 1788 - 2 Nov 1857” — 41 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1510–11
Michael Gratz
William Edward West, 10 Dec 1788 - 2 Nov 1857 · after 1808
Richard P. Robinson
Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857 · 1836
William Howard Taft, Michinori S. Nagasaki, Guy L. Edie, William Kelly, Tasker Bliss, Clarence Edwards
William Dinwiddie, 23 Aug 1867 - 17 Jun 1934 · July 1905
The Washington Family
Edward Savage, 26 Nov 1761 - 6 Jul 1817 · 1798
Perithemis icteroptera
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Nov 1998
Zachary Taylor
Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857 · 1847
Libellula saturata
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1991
Major Ringgold, Mortally Wounded
Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857 · 1846
Pinus pseudostrobus Lindl.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1962
Pinus oocarpa Schiede ex Schltdl.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Dec 1962
James Henry Hackett
Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857 · c. 1831
Dalea grayi (Vail) L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1948
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4320801 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 16:53 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.