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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 12m

Illustration by Anton Seder, from Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst (1896).

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c8bbcce4-1fa4-4334-b528-e3e7d35c2b91

#art-nouveau #beasts #birds #modernism #vulture #ornament #art

Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 17h

Visboek: Folio 69v and 70r (1580) by Adriaen Coenen, from Visboek.

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f6b387ef-e225-4f15-96bf-73c3818e0ae0

#whales #manuscripts #aquatic #fish #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 19h

Oscar Wilde and Whistler (Detail) (1894) by pen of Phil May.

Source: @artinstitutechi.bsky.social‬

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ec9a013d-87fb-4289-a376-43d83faf1172

#decadence #plagiarism #aesthetics #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 21h

Dancing Satyr (500-475 BC).

Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f5cc7a78-3fc1-4ea6-904e-c7b7e458d704

#terracotta #figurines #beards #running #sculpture #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Young alligators (ca. 1907).

Source: University of Southern California Libraries

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/399b68a1-5b04-41d2-abf4-381ce0eb3814

#reptiles #attractions #animals #enclosures #california #zoos #alligators #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Ground View of the New Prison in Philadelphia (1827), from Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society
.

Source: Princeton Theological Seminary Library / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9461106c-7e9c-4b9d-b1c8-db4906dfced

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/957cb73d-9044-4ad2-806c-ce9f5c169434

#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #circular #art #publicdomain

Illustration of diatom from Schmidt's *Atlas*

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Saint-Étienne Portal (1847) by Hippolyte Bayard.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9f8fe002-8fe2-4739-a32f-28d56abc3cd8

#fire #notre-dame #archways #construction #gothic #architecture #paris #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 2d

Siren Lacertina and Siren Bartholini (1789), from Amoenitates academicae
.

Source: Missouri Botanical Garden / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/aedef28c-4a2a-494d-88a6-af0f66d6974c

#tritons #anatomy #animals #mermaids #mermen #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 2d

Illustration by Raoul-Auger Feuillet , from Choregraphie (1701).

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7e18f2c1-7457-4c1f-b6e9-65520fbc9a86

#music #notation #dance #calligraphy #choreography #ballet #dancing #movement #art

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 2d

Belphégor (1863) by Louis le Breton, from Dictionnaire infernal
.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/006b132c-f11b-4635-b045-e63096f0a55c

#horns #catholicism #religion #dictionaries #cristianity #demons #occultism #folklore #beards

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 2d

Glooskap Looking at the Whale Smoking His Pipe (1884) by Charels G. Leland, from The Algonquin legends of New England : or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes.

Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1d50e

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 3d

Color Analysis From a Panel of the Alhambra (1902) by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, from Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c9bea305-6934-4caf-a4d8-08084eec9d5f

#alhambra #color

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 3d

Beatrice explaining to Dante that the universe is a hierarchy of being (1444–1450), from Divine Comedy.

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1ee31d66-be1e-43d0-80f3-67c803ea06c2

#astrology #animals #astronomy #paradise #dante #heaven #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 3d

Illustration by Katsushika Hokusai, from Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836).

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7f243022-bd49-4b40-98ec-29e30214cad4

#warriors #combat #ukiyo-e #japan #samurai #legend #folklore #mythology

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 3d

Striped Flints (*Silex quartzum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb64b3fe-2c80-4fe7-b6cc-53681eba0f1b

#minerals #geology #stones #patterns #rocks #mineralogy #art

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 4d

Thomas Smillie, 1890–1913.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Flickr: The Commons

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8bb4f66d-0d19-40a9-a3a3-f7f36fbc908e

#furnishings #museums #blueprints #cyanotype #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 4d

Illustration by Owen Jones, from Examples of Chinese Ornament (1867).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1e926d13-18a6-404f-a1d3-5f10f316d2a6

#decorative #botanical #patterns #floral #foliage #decorations

Illustration from a book showing chinese design

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 4d

Scene from Macbeth (1785) by Herny Fuseli.

Source: Yale Center for British Art / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/44a2774e-8ab6-4d76-a315-c474b038eccd

#shakespeare #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 4d

Northern lights phenomenon that moved toward Plassenburg in Vogtland on December 28, 1560. (1560).

Source: Zentralbibliothek Zürich / e-manuscripta

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/e9509eba-10e7-4030-b167-bbd53795bcc3

#eclipses #astronomy #angels #germany

16th-century broadside showing strange sky phenomena

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

From Sammlung geometrischer und perspectivischer, in Farben ausgeführter Zeichnungen, 36 Blätter umfassend (Cod. Guelf. 74.1 Aug. 2°; Heinemann-Nr. 2708) (16th century).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4a2115d3-01f4-47e3-95c9-cbb08fa9ab97

#perspective #shapes

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Eight Shadow Figures (ca. 1842) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cbef4d7d-8dcf-435b-b9f4-4d1566bad9ac

#animals #shadows #hands #ukiyo-e #japan #hiroshige #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Playful-decorative Work (Watercolour) (1922) by August Klotz, from Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/151abe08-08e6-4a9a-a219-914c56b7f297

#art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Blackwork print of concave lozenge-shaped panel and grotesque figures (ca. 1620–30) by Noël Rouillard.

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6323c6aa-79a0-4ad3-9225-b76aba1bb1cc

#decorative #jewelry #black #ink #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

Blackwork design for goldsmith work featuring a hunter and a fisherman (1612) by Mathais Beitler.

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5ad72413-a919-46f9-9282-639ec281c0e4

#animals #decorative #jewelry #black #bridges #ink #art #publicdomain

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