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. 24 shown for “William Faithorne the Elder” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
John Milton
William Faithorne the Elder · after 1670
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588
Holy Family with St. John
William Faithorne the Elder · 1655–72
Susannah and the Elders
Unidentified
King Charles II
William Faithorne the Elder · 1660–70
Robert Edward Lee
John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895 · 1876
Sir Henry Spelman (Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus)
William Faithorne the Elder · 1664
Enallagma carunculatum
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1991
John Milton
William Faithorne the Elder · 1670
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1941
King Charles I
William Faithorne the Elder · ca. 1658
Anas cyanoptera
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1926
Mary, Princess of Orange
William Faithorne the Elder · 1641–50
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
John Adams Elder, 3 Feb 1833 - 24 Feb 1895 · 1876
Catherine of Braganza
William Faithorne the Elder · 1662
Letter of marriage consent to Florian Cox from John A. Cox
Artist not stated in the record · October 6, 1866
Design for a Book Illustration
William Faithorne the Elder · 17th century
William Boswell Lamb
Unidentified · ca. 1795
Design for a Book Illustration
William Faithorne the Elder · 17th century
Elymus elymoides (Raf.) Swezey subsp. elymoides
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 2017
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Leymus cinereus (Scribn. & Merr.) Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 2017 and 26 Jul 2017
John Milton
Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760
Mrs. William Boswell Lamb (Margaret Stuart Kerr)
Unidentified · ca. 1795
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. 290 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1378122 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 2026-09-03 11:30 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.