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. 20 shown for “lantern, magic” — 57 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Arcadia
Thomas Eakins · ca. 1883
lantern, magic
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
A Magic Lantern
Henri Merke · January 30, 1799
Optical Toy: "The Magic Lantern" (Spooner's Protean Views, no. 5)
William Spooner, England, active 1830 – 1854 · ca. 1838
The Magic Lantern
Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 1737
Magic lantern
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900
The Magic Lantern
Auguste Edouart · ca. 1835
Gordon under Medical Inspection
Artist not stated in the record · 1863; printed later
The Magic Lantern
Sèvres Manufactory · ca. 1760
Perpetual Motion Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Eglinton Tournament Magic Lantern Slide
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1839
Radiating Raindrop Pattern
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
The Oracle
John Dixon · 1774
Eruption of Vesuvius
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern
Thomas Rowlandson · December 29, 1783
Valentine Feast
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780
Cottagers, with Fireside
Henri Merke · 1799
–But look, I don't see a thing in your magic lantern! –Just be a bit more patient... the curtain isn't up yet., from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 25, 1866
Honoré Daumier · May 25, 1866
The Tea-Tax-Tempest (The Oracle)
John Dixon · 1774
The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick Lanthern
Anonymous, British, 18th century · March 12, 1783
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 3 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. 4059 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 14:02 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.