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 “William Pitts” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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.
Group of Sea Nymphs
William Pitts · 1805–40
Sketches of Miscellaneous Egyptian Details and Figures (recto and verso)
William Pitts · 1805–40
Design for Ornamental Frieze with Shell, Foliage and Satyr's Head (recto); Figural Studies (verso)
William Pitts · 1805–40
Design with Dancing Figures
William Pitts · 1805–40
Sketch of a Child Riding a Dog
William Pitts · 1805–40
Sketch of Two Children
William Pitts · 1805–40
Design for Bed Alcove (recto); Studies for Statues and Carvings on Bed (verso)
William Pitts · 1805–40
Pair of three-light candelabra
William Pitts · 1808–9
Scene with Classical Figures
William Pitts · 1805–40
Design for a Throne (recto); Recumbent Figure (verso)
William Pitts · 1805–40
Study of Lower Legs and an Arm
William Pitts · early to mid-19th century
Sketch of Seated Female Figure with Foliate Decoration
William Pitts · 1805–40
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. 102 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:41 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.