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 Wyld” — 59 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
St. Mark's Square, Venice, with Loggetta
William Wyld · ca. 1840
On the Wharfe, Bolton Abbey
William Callow · September 30, 1858
Vision of the True Cross appearing to St. Helen
William Young Ottley · 1795–1836
The Rev. William Atkinson, wearing a broad-brimmed hat
George Romney · ca. 1760
William Evelyn of St Clere, Kent, holding a spaniel
Hugh Douglas Hamilton · ca. 1768–89
Fishermen's cottages at Hastings
William Henry Hunt · 1815–25
An apple, grapes and a hazelnut on a mossy bank
William Henry Hunt · 1830–64
George Richmond – Self-portrait
George Richmond · 1863
Portrait of Michael Faraday
George Richmond · 1852
Portrait of John Keble
George Richmond · 1863
Classical Subject of Fighting
John Hamilton Mortimer · 1760–79
View on the Nile near Cairo
Thomas Seddon · ca. 1855
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 1 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. 263129 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:56 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.