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The Public Domain Review

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The Public Domain Review

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Online journal exploring works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. Also 900+ prints in our shop!

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May 28
NEW ESSAY — In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this fabled zoophyte: publicdomainreview.org/essay/animal-v…
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Nov 1, 2025
All the saints. From the Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480.
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Oct 29, 2022
Book from 1911 showing that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption is far from being a phenomenon born with the internet. More here: buff.ly/2ZzSC76 #NationalCatDay
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Jan 8, 2025
🥁Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Jun 21, 2023
Happy Solstice! Here's the Sun putting on its best happy shining face for the special occasion, from the Splendor Solis, a 16th-century alchemical treatise. More art from the history of alchemy here: buff.ly/2TRml8s #SummerSolstice #Solstice #Midsummer #longestday
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Dec 31, 2022
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — buff.ly/3hevmBI #newyearseve #fireworks
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Aug 8, 2022
This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... buff.ly/3gGvkQm #InternationalCatDay
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May 16, 2022
Dice Man — it's just how he rolls... More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: buff.ly/2ACOSoF
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Oct 29, 2018
Book from 1911 book showing that taking photos of cats and brandishing them with an amusing caption is far from being a phenomenon born with the internet. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/ki… #NationalCatDay
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Dec 31, 2023
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — buff.ly/3hevmBI #newyearseve #fireworks
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Nov 5, 2022
Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — buff.ly/3hevmBI #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks
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Feb 18, 2024
Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams... publicdomainreview.org/collection/dur…
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Dec 5, 2019
Careful out there tonight for it's #Krampusnacht! Popular in German-speaking Alpine folklore, the figure of #Krampus is a devil-like horned creature who punishes badly-behaved children the night before St Nichiolas' Day. More Krampus cards here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/gr…
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Nov 26, 2023
Utagawa Hiroshige, Eight Shadow Figures, ca. 1842. ⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ One of several Hiroshige images available as prints to buy from our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…
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