mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Curated collection of 10,000+ public domain images, free for all to explore, download and reuse. A project of @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
Dou Hu in *Manor of the Strongman* (ca. 1900), from One Hundred Portraits of Peking Opera Characters.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7494b2bb-1685-4650-8e54-b809c5d3c022
#masks #costumes #theatre #china #opera #fashion #art #publicdomain
From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).
Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a86dee8e-14ab-4b9f-9d47-591fee569295
#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #pulleys #arabic #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain
"You Must Be a Great Sorceress." (1900) by W. W. Denslow, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Source: Library of Congress
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/687f6c4d-a1f1-4836-a120-5e867cd09d46
Phenakistoscope (1833).
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1dab3711-c639-437c-8219-971767c0be65
#technology #devils #riding #horses #phenakistoscopes #movement #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Raoul-Auger Feuillet , from Choregraphie (1701).
Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/44d93096-100c-4d8f-9237-464fda6af36a
#music #notation #dance #calligraphy #choreography #ballet #dancing #movement #art #publicdomain
From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).
Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5c81fa94-1822-43bc-9ed4-28f124e7a4da
#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #pulleys #arabic #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain
Examples of Number Forms (1883) by Francis Galton.
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4c7c851e-04ac-434e-ab2e-e189a74ea2e7
#diagrams #synaesthesia #decorative #numbers #patterns #color #design #art #publicdomain
Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint, after 1783 (1783).
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/435cf100-0b3b-4c3e-b003-b792a57e90f4
#trouvelot #space #astronomy #night #trees #landscapes #comets #houses #art #publicdomain
Curved trumpet (1722) by Filippo Buonanni, from Gabinetto Armonico pieno d’istromenti sonori.
Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1d34457e-c42a-4200-b073-7733a41903b5
#musicians #music #trumpets #instruments #wunderkammer #art #publicdomain
Earth (1793) by William Blake, from The Gates of Paradise.
Source: Yale Center for British Art
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4dd349b3-597a-4093-8077-17cdddaf0b8e
#childhood #paradise #morality #anguish #emblems #personification #earth #art #publicdomain
From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century).
Source: Penn Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/af2cf9f5-3695-4723-bf96-e7d5f9b7e5b1
From Sammlung geometrischer und perspectivischer, in Farben ausgeführter Zeichnungen, 36 Blätter umfassend (Cod. Guelf. 74.1 Aug. 2°; Heinemann-Nr. 2708) (16th century).
Source: @hab_wf@openbiblio.social
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e8becc76-9b6d-4310-b470-6b13c147b7af
#perspective #nature #birds #spirals #shells #geometry #art #publicdomain
The worship of Priapus (1499), from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Source: McGill University Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5e2050d4-8514-4fba-aeff-4e0f189caaa9
#quattrocento #woodcuts #dreams #books #antiquity #incunabulum #foliage #love #romance #architecture #eroticism #art #publicdomain
Røros Station (ca. 1881) by Charles Rabot.
Source: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0282f91c-7509-4f87-9ed9-0c3d922a627e
#arctic #norway #nature #landscapes #balconies #architecture #art #publicdomain
Damaged living room with mannequins. One inspector observing area (1953) by National Nuclear Security Administration.
Source: Department of Energy Digital Archive / Wikimedia Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4978531d-428f-4810-8589-5b30bfbdd9a4
#sofas #sitting #mannequins #windows #rooms #art #publicdomain
The comet that appeared over Augsburg in November, 1577. (1577).
Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/14f2d55d-d158-401b-8f5f-a378cf7bd1ee
#eclipses #astronomy #germany #nomenclature #buildings #protestant-reformation #comets #art #publicdomain
Three Head-and-Feet Figurines: Front and rear views (Wood) (1922) by Karl Brendel, from Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.
Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/836ee65c-9a5b-4973-8b97-81f7a93a3270
From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century).
Source: Penn Libraries
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/be48331f-3f99-4bde-a6f5-c3e7f087835b
Jasmin (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7bc7d22-d86b-4a7b-b06d-4af06e41e538
#anthropomorphism #caricatures #curtains #hairstyle #cartoons #floral #personification #flowers #fashion #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Raoul-Auger Feuillet , from Choregraphie (1701).
Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/de85d879-cae7-4e6d-be2e-67eb6c8fe657
#music #notation #dance #calligraphy #choreography #ballet #dancing #movement #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/750b74da-0d18-4d40-966c-c2179e8103fb
#fish #art-nouveau #beasts #modernism #ornament #seaweed #art #publicdomain
Flute Began to Play / Cod, the Captain (1921) by Jean de Bosschère, from Weird Islands.
Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/66f101d4-47f5-4bf0-908f-aa610401226e
#exploration #fish #travel #flutes #boats #art #publicdomain
(Volume 5, pg. 10) (1913), from Unai no tomo.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/214851e0-402c-4ecf-9b99-7598535996e5
#childhood #toys #japan #samurai #children #design #play #art #publicdomain
Fly, Caterpillar, Pear, and Centipede. (1561–96) by Joris Hoefnagel, Georg Bocskay, from Mira calligraphiae monumenta.
Source: The Getty
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ec5abf5a-287d-43d1-8f5a-8b3e927e30b2
#insects #pears #nature #botany #calligraphy #butterflies #fruit #flowers #writing #art #publicdomain
Diorama of an indigenous scene (1819) by Gerrit Schouten.
Source: Rijksmuseum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c4b8578a-960c-4a11-8ab2-becaad1ac77c
#models #thatched-rooves #family #rowboats #hammocks #indigenous #birds #dutch #dioramas #slavery #art #publicdomain
Hands with Busts of Apostles, Saints, Mary, and Christ (1491), from Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtumer des Heils
.
Source: The Walters Art Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/aa00b387-202c-42e5-a975-62fb4a8c7bac
#hands #fingers #books #memory #calculators #symbolism #fingernails #art #publicdomain
A Young Joseph Grimaldi, Dressed as a Monkey, Getting Propelled into the Audience (1853) by George Cruikshank, from Memoirs
.
Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/af5b6cfa-4110-41d0-9234-5649217e972f
Three women with fans, musical instrument and a table set with food. (1908–1918) by Herbert Geddes.
Source: University of Victoria Libraries / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fb0c9dde-e77e-49a7-9494-ebd68dc0cf15
Two young girls (ca. 1890).
Source: National Science and Media Museum / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc21c827-29f7-4a3c-8fcd-6d507176e7b6
#victorian #portraits #children #kodak #circular #art #publicdomain
"And this time she whisked off the sig; and there lay the lad, so lovely, and white and red, just as the Princess had seen him in the morning sun." (1922) by Kay Nielsen, from East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Source: New York Public Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/de1491d7-86b1-4fc1-bdee-7a9e36317340
The “pericentral spectrum” of Mr. Beck (1904), from Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound.
Source: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/366f61c1-e348-479c-b491-8f53c23cf373
#abstract #visions #headaches #migraines #auras #sequential #movement #teichopsia #art #publicdomain
Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4529f311-3f60-4844-b67f-ef4dbc43a257
#biopower #foucault #fingerprints #ears #noses #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #mouths #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (1825) by William Blake.
Source: Yale Center for British Art
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/241e0077-97a5-409c-a046-c521874f7607
#clouds #processions #jerusalem #celestial #urizen #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/74c438f2-2c95-403a-b8b0-77eb8926ad1a
#portraiture #character #portraits #mugshots #criminals #identification #faces #crime #art #publicdomain
Map of Europe for 1870 (1870) by Paul Hadol.
Source: Library of Congress
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7fe2da53-312e-4599-9ea7-405773976e2b
#cartography #animals #europe #geography #personification #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/66312f3a-a628-4d56-bda5-1b97968de985
#portraiture #character #mugshots #criminals #faces #crime #hats #art #publicdomain
Spring Morning in the Han Palace (detail) (17th century) by Qiu Ying.
Source: The Walters Art Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6422bbe6-d4c8-4b81-8cfc-8db01568e914
Sunflower (1849) by J. J. Grandville, from The Flowers Personified.
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c4e34079-77b9-42cd-bde7-8791275fd349
#anthropomorphism #caricatures #cartoons #gesture #floral #personification #sunflowers #flora #flowers #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).
Source: @bsbmuenchen@openbiblio.social
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/547354f0-9a51-4241-829b-60ac008909a1
#watercolours #royalty #costumes #botanical-art #processions #landscape #allegory #parties #flowers #castles #plants #art #publicdomain
Illustration by R. C. Kedzie, from Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874).
Source: US National Library of Medicine / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/76a9a54b-aad2-4bd3-9104-edfc80c49352
#poison #wallpaper #decorative #green #arsenic #death #patterns #color #decorations #design #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Friedrich Lehmann, Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, from Anatome Testudinis Europaeae (1821).
Source: Harvard University / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/564f9d97-9986-4f22-9bec-fe438babe877
#anatomy #zoology #dissection #turtles #bojanus #art #publicdomain
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