145 Articles from: The Public Domain Review
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- 2018-04-25 14:25:06
- Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
- 2018-04-24 13:11:37
- Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
- 2018-04-18 16:28:05
- Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London
- 2018-04-17 15:37:40
- Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)
- 2018-04-11 16:47:01
- Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922)
- 2018-04-10 16:35:20
- The Book of Exposition: A Collection of 15th-Century Erotica from the Middle East (1900)
- 2018-04-05 16:25:39
- Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913)
- 2018-04-04 16:17:10
- Fallen Angels: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Europe
- 2018-03-29 13:52:43
- The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature
- 2018-03-27 14:20:37
- The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Shewing how he Went Further than he Intended, and Came Safe Home Again (1782)
- 2018-03-21 17:14:45
- Pens and Needles: Reviving Book-Embroidery in Victorian England
- 2018-03-20 16:46:24
- Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1921)
- 2018-03-15 16:17:23
- The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)
- 2018-03-14 15:25:46
- Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
- 2018-03-07 16:30:36
- “Alas, Poor YORICK!”: The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne
- 2018-03-06 17:44:33
- Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
- 2018-03-01 16:49:30
- Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)
- 2018-02-28 14:19:31
- First English Edition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
- 2018-02-21 17:17:46
- Darwin’s Polar Bear
- 2018-02-20 16:24:59
- Autographs for Freedom (1853)
- 2018-02-17 12:46:58
- Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)
- 2018-02-14 16:51:26
- Cryptography: or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)
- 2018-02-08 15:10:24
- Russian Portraits (1921)
- 2018-02-07 15:29:08
- Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras
- 2018-02-06 15:44:57
- Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)
- 2018-02-02 13:42:52
- The Dances of the Ages (1913)
- 2018-01-31 16:01:20
- Curiosities from the Museum of Giovanni Carafa (1778)
- 2018-01-25 19:16:23
- Omega: The Last Days of the World (1894)
- 2018-01-24 17:27:23
- The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
- 2018-01-23 10:21:19
- A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)
- 2018-01-18 17:45:36
- A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1788)
- 2018-01-16 17:42:23
- Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)
- 2018-01-10 15:12:32
- Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia
- 2018-01-09 16:59:00
- The Book of the Homeless (1916)
- 2018-01-04 15:10:09
- On the Banks of the Old Raritan (1915)
- 2017-12-19 15:06:14
- Class of 2018
- 2017-12-12 16:18:30
- George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)
- 2017-12-07 17:55:17
- Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
- 2017-12-06 17:39:47
- Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age
- 2017-11-28 18:08:40
- The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya
- 2017-11-22 16:24:54
- Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck
- 2017-11-21 17:42:30
- The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop
- 2017-11-15 17:24:20
- Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
- 2017-11-14 19:22:47
- Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880)
- 2017-11-09 17:42:07
- Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will
- 2017-11-08 19:07:33
- Autumn: Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing (1912)
- 2017-11-07 17:04:58
- The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)
- 2017-10-30 14:45:47
- Defining the Demonic
- 2017-10-28 19:25:34
- Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)
- 2017-10-25 13:25:10
- Defining the Demonic
- 2017-10-24 13:26:16
- The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)
- 2017-10-24 13:00:11
- On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)
- 2017-10-24 12:53:28
- Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
- 2017-10-24 12:53:28
- Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
- 2017-10-24 12:40:13
- Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)
- 2017-10-24 11:32:06
- Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
- 2017-10-24 11:32:06
- Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
- 2017-10-24 11:12:47
- Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
- 2017-10-24 11:12:47
- Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
- 2017-10-24 10:57:14
- Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
- 2017-10-24 10:57:14
- Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
- 2017-10-24 10:20:47
- The Art of Philosophy: Visualising Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris
- 2017-10-24 10:20:47
- The Art of Philosophy: Visualising Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris
- 2017-10-11 15:27:12
- Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
- 2017-10-11 11:32:06
- Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
- 2017-10-10 19:25:34
- Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)
- 2017-10-05 17:09:21
- Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)
- 2017-10-05 17:09:21
- Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1784)
- 2017-10-04 19:28:27
- The Primordial Gound
- 2017-10-03 17:54:05
- The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)
- 2017-09-27 12:53:21
- Ignatius Donnelly: Recipes for Disaster
- 2017-09-27 11:12:47
- Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
- 2017-09-20 15:17:18
- The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)
- 2017-09-20 15:17:18
- The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)
- 2017-09-19 12:48:43
- On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)
- 2017-09-14 16:02:25
- Park Conscious (1938)
- 2017-09-14 16:02:25
- Park Conscious (1938)
- 2017-09-13 15:26:08
- Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
- 2017-09-12 14:21:42
- Bayard and de Neuville’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
- 2017-09-07 16:23:43
- Woodrow Wilson On Democratic Principles (1912)
- 2017-09-07 16:23:43
- Woodrow Wilson On Democratic Principles (1912)
- 2017-09-06 15:31:12
- Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)
- 2017-09-06 15:31:12
- Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean (1815)
- 2017-08-30 16:37:00
- The Art of Philosophy: Visualising Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris
- 2017-08-29 18:00:13
- Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)
- 2017-08-23 11:02:58
- The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913)
- 2017-08-23 11:02:58
- The Victrola Book of the Opera (1913)
- 2017-08-19 17:25:30
- Chladni Figures (1787)
- 2017-08-19 17:25:30
- Chladni Figures (1787)
- 2017-08-16 16:03:55
- Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army
- 2017-08-16 16:03:55
- Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army
- 2017-08-16 16:03:55
- Rescuing England: The Rhetoric of Imperialism and the Salvation Army
- 2017-08-15 18:47:25
- Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan
- 2017-08-15 18:47:25
- Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan
- 2017-08-02 15:14:01
- William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)
- 2017-08-02 15:14:01
- William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)
- 2017-08-01 15:57:31
- “Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)
- 2017-08-01 15:57:31
- “Dialogue of Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)
- 2017-07-27 15:16:41
- Out From Behind This Mask
- 2017-07-27 15:16:41
- Out From Behind This Mask
- 2017-07-27 15:16:41
- Out From Behind This Mask
- 2017-07-26 16:26:07
- Destination Earth (1956)
- 2017-07-26 16:26:07
- Destination Earth (1956)
- 2017-07-25 15:10:37
- The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)
- 2017-07-25 15:10:37
- The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)
- 2017-07-19 16:54:39
- The History of Ink, including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography (1860)
- 2017-07-13 16:21:46
- Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)
- 2017-07-12 16:09:23
- Inventing the Recording
- 2017-07-11 17:18:57
- Micromégas by Voltaire (1752)
- 2017-07-06 15:53:33
- The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)
- 2017-07-05 16:04:23
- Lover of the Strange, Sympathizer of the Rude, Barbarianologist of the Farthest Peripheries
- 2017-06-28 16:54:31
- The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram
- 2017-06-27 20:29:55
- The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)
- 2017-06-22 09:00:16
- Ha Bun Shu: a Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1919)
- 2017-06-19 11:46:42
- Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)
- 2017-06-14 15:54:23
- Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
- 2017-06-13 16:46:58
- Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
- 2017-06-06 17:48:37
- Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)
- 2017-06-01 16:39:58
- The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)
- 2017-05-31 14:43:47
- Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin
- 2017-05-30 16:37:08
- Book of French Textile Samples (1863)
- 2017-05-24 17:12:36
- Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)
- 2017-05-23 17:04:52
- Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)
- 2017-05-18 15:05:27
- Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)
- 2017-05-17 15:54:05
- Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
- 2017-05-11 16:48:17
- The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)
- 2017-05-10 16:23:33
- Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)
- 2017-05-09 16:13:01
- The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
- 2017-05-04 13:30:08
- Woodcuts and Witches
- 2017-04-27 17:12:06
- The Burning Stable (1896)
- 2017-04-26 17:25:40
- The Elizabeths: Elemental Historians
- 2017-04-26 14:01:33
- Texts in Mathias Enard’s Compass
- 2017-04-19 16:57:52
- W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
- 2017-04-18 18:05:19
- Arcimboldo-esque Composite Portraits of Trades (ca. 1800)
- 2017-04-05 16:55:30
- Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
- 2017-03-22 15:48:14
- American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
- 2017-03-08 15:22:56
- Voltaire and the Buddha
- 2017-02-22 12:27:44
- A Queer Taste for Macaroni
- 2017-02-08 16:51:16
- George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?
- 2017-01-29 09:22:05
- You Need to Complete Your Sign Up
- 2017-01-25 16:18:33
- Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
- 2016-12-14 16:51:49
- Trouvelot’s Jupiter
- 2016-12-14 16:50:21
- Trouvelot’s Aurora Borealis
- 2016-12-14 16:46:58
- Trouvelot’s Total Eclipse of the Sun
- 2016-12-08 19:03:42
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