Notices by The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)

Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1911.

Measuring 15 by 25 ft, this is one of several Munch paintings to adorn the walls inside the Hall of Ceremonies at the University of Oslo.

One of several Munch prints available from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/edvard-munch

.@James_J_Conway on Magnus Hirschfeld's pioneering 1904 study of queer Berlin: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/out-on-the-town

Happy 1st of June! Here's its entry in the beautiful Très Riches Heures, a 15th-century Book of Hours: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures?utm_content=buffer48077&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1134789419116969985/photo/1

(Scyther to the right in pink getting into the Summer spirit... 😳)

#SundayReads: @drmatthewgreen revisits the lost city of Dunwich, a once lively port that was taken by the sea: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-city-that-fell-off-a-cliff

Watercolor and ink drawing by Bartholomeus Ziesenis of the dancer Annette Köbler as she performs the “pas de shawl”, 1812.

One of two available as prints from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/bartholomeus-ziesenis/

Watercolor and ink drawing by Bartholomeus Ziesenis of the dancer Annette Köbler as she performs the “pas de shawl”, 1812.

One of two available as prints from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/bartholomeus-ziesenis/

D. Graham Burnett on birthday boy Walt Whitman and the curious power of his posthumous eyelids: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/out-from-behind-this-mask #otd #onthisday

#OnThisDay in 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa race massacre: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-tulsa-massacre-of-1921

Born #onthisday in 1819, the American poet Walt Whitman. Nina Murray looks at the translators through which his poems were experienced in Russia, a country hugely influenced by his work: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/walt-whitman-in-russia-three-love-affairs #otd

Songs from Shakespeare plays as recorded by Victor in the first two decades of the twentieth century.: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shakespeare-songs-from-victor-records

Earth without water, by Thomas Burnet, ca. 1700⠀
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Note California depicted as an island. See more maps depicting California adrift from the mainland here — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-showing-california-as-an-island

Radical serving of Friday fish from the 1st colour publication on fish (1754). As the top specimen (with smiling sun) indicates, some of the offerings in the book lean perhaps a little too heavily on the imagination than today's ichthyologists may allow: https://t.co/NlpbLs4X5

Sketches of Voltaire aged 81, by Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, just 2 yrs before the great Enlightenment thinker would pass away, #onthisday in 1778. Learn about his relationship to Buddhism in Donald S. Lopez, Jr.'s essay "Voltaire and the Buddha" — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/voltaire-and-the-buddha

Born #onthisday in 1778, Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor and President of the Royal Society. Read @MikeJayNet's essay on Davy's pioneering early experiments with Nitrous Oxide (AKA Laughing Gas). https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide #otd

#OnThisDay in 1769, while on Tahiti as part of Captain Cook’s first great voyage to the South Pacific, Joseph Banks gives us the first known written description of #surfing... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769 #OTD

From our Conjectures series: At the intersection of surfing and medieval cathedrals, from the contents of a suitcase, Melissa McCarthy stages a plot that walks its way across paranoia, language, and the pursuit of knowledge.... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-archaeology-of-surf

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (ca. 1816), a painting by Benjamin West featured in our essay by Kevin Duong exploring how French revolutionaries, in need of a symbol for the "will of the people", turned to the thunderbolt: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/flash-mob-revolution-lightning-and-the-people-s-will?utm_content=buffer14d89&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

It was originally made to be hung on the wall and if you would like to do just that, on your very own wall, you can purchase a special edition print — measuring a whopping 64 by 18 inches — from our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland/

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, originally published in 1917, is a stunning six-foot-long map that depicts the worlds of various myths, fairytales, and folklore on one single landscape: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland/

#OnThisDay in 1769, in Tahiti, Joseph Banks loses his trousers... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769 #OTD