Optics, by A.D. Macquin, 1820.
Eye-filled star with spokes dividing the spectrum of colours. At the top, it reads "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
Buy as a print here: publicdomainreview.org/product/optics
Optics, by A.D. Macquin, 1820.
Eye-filled star with spokes dividing the spectrum of colours. At the top, it reads "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
Buy as a print here: publicdomainreview.org/product/optics
Friendly fish.
From a 14th-century illuminated manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (The flower of Nature). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme #fridayfish
Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884), including tales of the mythical Glooskap, whose name literally means Liar, because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-algonquin-legends-of-new-england-1884/
It's World Octopus Day! Pictured here a “Polypus levis Hoyle” from a 1910 publication on the German Deep-Sea Expedition of 1898, led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. Buy it as a print here: https://buff.ly/2pHWjlP
#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: https://buff.ly/3aklZfu #art #illustration
A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily.
View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: https://buff.ly/2Kei1GV
A few of the seven etchings that comprise Käthe Kollwitz's Peasants’ War series (ca. 1901–1908) about the innate dignity, courage, and strength of the poor. More in our latest post here:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kollwitz-peasants-war/
We are super excited to make live on the site a whole raft of important changes aimed at improving how we communicate rights labelling and championing those institutions openly sharing #publicdomain works. Learn more in our blogpost: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/10/sources-and-rights-labelling-overhaul/
Illustration from Nonsenseorship (1922). In this “levititious literary escapade” — as publisher George P. Putnam describes his anthology — some of the wittiest writers of the Jazz Age lambaste the nonsensically censorious atmosphere of prohibition-era US: https://buff.ly/3illIvw
Print from 1556 published by Hieronymus Cock , designed by Cornelis Floris II and engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum.
More of these highly elaborate ornament prints, mostly in the grotesque style, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum here: https://buff.ly/3Dv01TP
Read the letters of the writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780), the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press: https://buff.ly/3mmZFHQ #BlackHistoryMonth
October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: https://buff.ly/3eqmohs
#OnThisDay in 1791, the first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Pictured here the magnificent set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6, designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (Buy a print of it here: https://buff.ly/3kHtdQO)
William Dean Howells' vision of a “one-class” socialist utopia, outlined in his novel A Traveler from Altruria (1894), has all people guaranteed a share of the national product on the condition they work at least three hours a day. Read it here: http://buff.ly/2mHjg9C
Sit with a cup of old gown (or breaky-leg) and unbetty the lexical rooters of Victorian street slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dictionary-of-modern-slang/
NEW ESSAY — “Free Speech and Bad Meats”, in which @kukukadoo revisits John Milton’s Areopagitica, a tract often championed by today’s free speech absolutists, and finds a debt to the work of early modern housewives — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/free-speech-and-bad-meats/
Tulip from the first 1847 edition of Les Fleurs animées (The Flowers Personified), a collection of floral (and often florid) writing, featuring playful illustrations by J. J. Grandville. More of his anthropomorphised flowers here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-flowers-personified-1847 #flowers #flower #tulip #illustration #art
Pages from a 1902 issue of Shin-Bijutsukai (New Oceans of Art), a design magazine produced at a watershed in Japanese publishing history: when pattern books became standalone works of art: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-designs-1902 #art #design #pattern #illustration #japan
Entering the US public domain in 2023: Fritz Lang's silent film science-fiction classic *Metropolis*.
More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/ #PDin2023 #film #metropolis
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