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Public Domain Image Archive
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Curated collection of 10,000+ public domain images, free for users to explore and reuse, even commercially. A project of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

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Blue Grotto, Capri Island, Italy (1900) by Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b656ed61-4a1b-4ec8-a4de-bd1f08e6fa70

#grottoes #aesthetes #water #mescaline #sunlight #psychedelics #peyote #passengers #drugs #blue #boats #art
Blue grotto
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Beaver (1658) by Edward Topsell, from The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents.

Source: University of Houston Digital Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/47616ee7-63b4-4caa-ae46-1e91ddfa70de

#wings #animals #woodcuts #tusks #art #publicdomain
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Tickia Orologica (1888) by Edward Lear, from Nonsense Botany.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d67d5829-4e1c-408f-b735-4d88bdfb7ef1

#time #nature #botany #nonsense #taxonomy #flora #clocks #flowers #plants #art #publicdomain
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Circulation of Ch'i (1886).

Source: The Walters Art Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e1d6efc7-6521-4498-92ad-5e690389507f

#taoist #mythology #dragons #art #publicdomain
chart of the inner landscape
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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From Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros (ca. 1775).

Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ec074b57-6d9e-4109-95bb-af2bd366810a

#beelzebub #cabbalistic #demons #occultism #skeletons #rituals
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Illustration by Friedrich Lehmann, Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, from Anatome Testudinis Europaeae (1821).

Source: @harvard.edu / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/564f9d97-9986-4f22-9bec-fe438babe877

#anatomy #zoology #dissection #turtles #bojanus #art #publicdomain
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Marie Høeg in woollen underwear (ca. 1895–1903).

Source: Preus Museum / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/57b84416-8e33-4097-9d3b-09df793ba6be

#victorian-sexuality #homosexuality #artist-studio #wool #cross-dressing #play #women #art #publicdomain
Studio photograph of people posing
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Wait Till You’ve Been Anointed (1797–99) by Francisco de Goya.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/218a29f4-c9e9-4c07-bb3a-2b5b5e8198bb

#anthropomorphism #satire #dogs #societies #dreams #proverbs #spain #art #publicdomain
goya
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's *China Illustrata* (1667) by Athanasius Kircher, from China Illustrata
.

Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92de90-0624-4114-b81a-c113fde74383

#buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory
matteo ricci china jesuit mission
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Illustration by Christoph Jamnitzer, from Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610).

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b93bb772-e512-4a9b-9f84-ea06faeb88f8

#grotesques #grotesque #human-animal-hybrid #flowers #ornament #design #art #publicdomain
Grotesque etching
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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View of the Palace of Jules Mazarin Lustgarten, with ground plans of the pleasure gardens. (1664) by Georg Andreas Böckler, from Architectura Curiosa Nova.

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6df8037e-1842-4fff-8572-41a66464f4ce

#gardens #buildings
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Mideopsis Orbicularis (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature Through Microscope and Camera.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/06665f72-4776-4438-97d5-08cd2f5f4aae

#anatomy #micrography #arachnid #microscopes #spiders #magnification
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Illustration by Max Brückner, from Vielecke und Vielflache: Theorie und Geschichte (1900).

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b507c4c1-b707-4bfb-8686-233de0340dfa

#mathematics #models #polyhedra #geometry #sculpture #art #publicdomain
vieleckeundvielf00bruoft_0291
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Pictograph at Tule Reservation, Cal. (null).

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f7350aa1-0203-4775-9f01-fd5b97e7db16

#captions #art #publicdomain
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Fukami Jikyu In Moonlight (1887) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi .

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f00837f1-c10d-4862-a733-8b0edfafbdb5

#moon #kimonos #petals #art #publicdomain
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Grotto Design with Automata (1615), from Les raisons des forces mouvantes
.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/df34ceaa-504c-4248-84b2-464ad4685293

#grottoes #fountains #gardens #machinery #grotesques #nature #artifice #caves #design #sculpture #art
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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“She beckoned to Veikko” (1922) by Jay Van Everen, from Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/038bd2b1-27e1-44fa-9de6-f5f76b4a6eb7

#scandinavia #animals #nature #myth #finland #patterns #trees
Print by Jay Van Everen
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Illustration by Samuel G. Szabó, from Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857).

Source: @metmuseum.org

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8cc33ee9-7727-4597-856f-824cfb33c6dc

#portraiture #character #portraits #mugshots #criminals #identification #faces #crime #art #publicdomain
Samuel G. Szabó’s Rogues, A Study of Characters
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Facsimile of the Codex Mendoza, ca. 1541–1650 (1831–48) by Agostino Aglio, from Antiquities of Mexico.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b77a3c0a-c2fc-46e0-b2d6-51e90a8777cd

#rowboats #mayans
Facsimile of Mesoamerican codex
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Everything as a Precaution (17th century) by Nicolas Guerard.

Source: US National Library of Medicine

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/52dfec39-ddcc-44e0-b334-0a7c7fcec23d

#animals #transfusion #portraiture #books #blood #glass #versailles #descartes #lambs #art
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–60.

Source: Harry Ransom Center

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c3a9fe73-1af2-45bf-83e8-0430fc5eeedc

#collage #religion #nature #blood #christianity #wildlife #art #publicdomain
John Bingley Garland collage from Evelyn Waugh's Blood Book
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/daf9dc4f-93c1-4256-a1db-6f8c67b1ecfd

#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
Illustration of diatom from Schmidt's *Atlas*
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Formosan Funeral (1704) by George Psalmanazar, from An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa
.

Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/33c41672-853b-4081-941c-59278edf8be1

#poles #charlatans #formosa #tricksters #decorative #hoaxes
funeral
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/03ed0692-a716-4698-b584-8011d5f041a7

#water #societies #fish #nobility #buildings #floral #signatures #friendship #art #publicdomain
Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Priests as Snake Charmers (1850) by John Leech, from The Comic History of Rome
.

Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/34cb2738-0080-4f2e-abbd-773400512459

#caricatures #victorian #romans #cartoons #booth #advertising #art #publicdomain
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM