Notices by The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social), page 2

A few illustrations from William Elliot Griffis’ Korean Fairy Tales (1922). Read the whole book, and see more of its images, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/korean-fairy-tales

The Music of the Waters (1888), Laura Alexandrine Smith’s compilation of #seashanties from around the world, including music, words, and ethnographic description of their provenance and performance: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-shanties

Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-prints-of-western-inventors-artists-and-scholars-1873

As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel’s 17th-century painting of his name in caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best. More on the unique work here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jan-van-kessel-s-signature-of-caterpillars-and-snakes-1657

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory — in his essay “Bad Air” Brett Beasley explores The Doom of the Great City (1880), a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction-in-william-delisle-hay-s-the-doom-of-the-great-city-1880?utm_content=bufferb6f4d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Born #onthisday in 1889, British painter Paul Nash — one of the most important landscape artists of the 20th century. See highlights from his depictions of WW1 and WW2, the body of work for which he best known today: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-war-art-of-paul-nash-1917-1944 #otd

#OnThisDay in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was opened to the public in Paris. Not to be outdone, London decided to get a new tower of their own and held a competition to design it, with some interesting results! https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890 #OTD

Top #gardening tip: keep "ypericon" (St John's Wort) in your garden for optimal demon repelling.

From Tractatus de Herbis, a northern Italian manuscript made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tractatus-de-herbis-ca-1440

The Temptation of St Anthony, by Martin Schongauer, 1470.

The engraving inspired many artists including Michelangelo who copied it in his earliest known painting when just 12 or 13 yrs old (see 2nd image).

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Illustrations from Albert Robida’s La vie électrique (1890). While the flying cars have not (yet) come to pass, Robida's imagining of life 60 years in the future includes many prescient visions, such as a proto Zoom, Netflix, hyperloop + smart doorbell: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/albert-robida-la-vie-electrique

“Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000”, a circa 1902 illustration by French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, novelist, and all around futurologist, Albert Robida.

More on the print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leaving-the-opera-in-the-year-2000?utm_content=buffer92bb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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A few of the many beautiful Kay Nielsen illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914), a book of Norwegian fairytales. See more illustrations, and read the stories, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/east-of-the-sun-and-west-of-the-moon-illustrated-by-kay-nielsen-1922-edition

Emblems from a unique scrapbook containing a collection of cut out emblems featured in juvenile literature. Subjects include “folly of drunkenness”, “the danger of misspending time”, and “upon a little girl’s playing with a painted baby”.

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scrapbook-of-hand-coloured-juvenile-woodcut-emblems

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fell for one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century when he became convinced that the "fairy photographs" taken by two girls from Yorkshire in the 1920s were real. Mary Losure explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies #AprilFools

In May 1884, long before the likes of Kim Kardashian achieved celebrity through careful curation and promotion of self, a young unknown named Marie Bashkirtseff staked her desire for fame on the publication of her personal diary. Sonia Wilson explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marie-bashkirtseff

Michalina Janoszanka, Wiosna (Spring), ca. 1920s. One of several paintings made directly on glass by the Polish artist. More of her work in our post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/michalina-janoszanka/

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Pages from Patrick Syme's wonderful Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814), one of the first attempts to standardise colour description. For each colour there's examples given from the kingdoms of animal, vegetable and mineral. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/werners-nomenclature-of-colours-1814/

Young Florentines in self-isolation, 1349.

From a series of miniatures depicting scenes from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, a masterpiece of early Italian prose in which 100 tales are told by a group of young people isolating from the plague: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-decameron

Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848) - A story of a group of crows attacked by a farmer, beautifully illustrated by the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/caw-caw-or-the-chronicle-of-crows-ca-1848