famous paintings in public domain

A. Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored peop...

Photograph of a painting. R.D. Bayley, Battle Creek, Mich. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Return of the war party / Frederic Remington.

Indian warriors on horseback. G51971 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Frederic Remington.

[Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, half-length, facing front, hand in vest]

J231173 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo of painting by Mrs. Norman Burwell. Copyright by Archer G. Jones. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

The May Flower, 1620 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crispus Attucks - Public domain portrait painting

Memorial portrait, bust, facing left. "The brave soldier of the Revolutionary War, 1770." Half-tone reproduction of painting. Copyright by W.H. Curd, Chicago, Ill. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

[Daniel O'Connell, half-length portrait]

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Summer girl - Print, Library of Congress collection

G10754 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Campbell, Metzger & ... More

Salvador Dali A, gelatin silver print

Portrait photograph of Salvador Dali, including objects, cats, and water caught in motion. The photo is similar to Halsman's published photo "Dali Atomicus" before retouching. J3769 U.S. Copyright Office Transf... More

[Washington at Valley Forge] / E. Percy Moran.

George Washington on horseback in snow at Valley Forge. K25716 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edward P. Moran.

Gaiety Hollow, 545 Mission Street, Salem, Marion, OR

1st Place Winner - 2013 HALS Challenge: Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women Significance: Gaiety Hollow is part of Gaiety Hill/Bush's Pasture Park Historic District, a primarily residential 143-acre di... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Wisdom" with Cruciform light...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a stained glass design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

René Descartes, 1596-1650, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Engraving by W. Holl after painting by Franz Hals. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index (2); BI; Shelf.

[Mary Wollstonecraft, half-length portrait, facing left]

Photograph of a stipple engraving by James Heath, ca. 1797, after a painting by John Opie. Stamped on verso: Sewall Coll. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

J. Stuart Mill / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams,...

Public domain photograph of portrait print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber.

African Americans in wagon and on foot, escaping from slavery. 52844(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by Charles T. Webber in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

[Cowboy on a bucking bronco] / F. Remington.

F69882 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Frederic Remington.

Deutsches U-boot versenkt englischen frachtdampfer / Adolf Bock 1941.

Print shows German sailors standing on the conning tower of a u-boat after sinking a British cargo ship. Original signed in lower left. Forms part of: Third Reich Collection (Library of Congress).

Rose blossoms on stem with leaves

Typed on label attached to verso: This flower study was painted by William W. Thackara 1791-1839 water colors. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms par... More

John Adams : from a painting by Chappel in the possession of the publi...

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ludwig van Beethoven - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait, bust, full. Photograph of reproduction of painting by Carl Jaeger (1833-1887). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

The pilgrims signing the compact, on board the May Flower, Nov. 11th, ...

Print showing the Pilgrims, below deck on the Mayflower, signing the Mayflower Compact. Engraving by Gauthier after painting by T.H. Matteson. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859 by W. Schaus... More

The Chicago Fire, 1871 - A black and white photo of a city

Photo of painted cyclorama copyrighted by G.M. Watson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[First Thanksgiving] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Romeo and Juliet] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, engraving, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hand painted mural showing the Cuban flag and Che Guevara, neighborhoo...

Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution during the 1950s and 60s. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. ... More

The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris.

Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal. K17395 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 6. Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

D.H. Day Farmstead, Dairy-Horse Barn, Route 109, Glen Arbor, Leelanau ...

Significance: Concrete floors throughout lower level - gutters patched level, no mangers or stall partitions extant. Concrete 14" thick walls on west, north, & east with wood windows & doors inset (silo walls ... More

Arrangement of a peony with other flowers

(DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. No. 936. Reproduction of 1845 painting by E. Magnus.

The Chicago Fire, 1871 - A black and white photo of a city street

Photo of painted cyclorama copyrighted by G.M. Watson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for witchcraft

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The First locomotive. Aug. 8th, 1829. Trial trip of the "Stourbridge L...

Crowd watching the trial trip of the first locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion". G52817 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting. Copyright by Clyde O. DeLand.

Matt. 24:57-66. Jesus brought before Caiaphas and the council, is accu...

[Galileo Galilei, half-length portrait, facing left]

Possibly a reproduction of a painting by Giusto Sustermans. "Edne. Alinari...no. 104." Captioned in Italian.

Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for witchcraft, Essex Institute, Salem...

Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 078018. Reproduction of painting. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Soldiers standing in snow-covered military camp, possibly in Valley F...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Charles Goodyear, seated in chair, full-length portrait]

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Patrick Henry, half-length portrait], engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain scan of portrait print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Battle of New Orleans] / E. Percy Moran.

Shows Andrew Jackson standing in front of American flag with sword raised. K17403 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by E. Percy Moran.

[Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, bust portrait, facing right]

Sculptor & painter. K32153 U.S. Copyright Office. Halftone reproduction of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

G.W.F. Hegel / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, B...

Photograph of painting shows Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. No. 242. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Lady Lavery - Public domain portrait painting

Photo shows Lady Hazel Martyn Lavery (1880-1935) dressed as Flora in Botticelli's painting, The Spring. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Battle of Gettysburg / Painted by Philippoteaux.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Date from impression of the print in the Stenzel Collection at Yale. Bottom left: "Copyrighted by Manhattan Art Co., New York."

Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827

Full lgth., seated, facing right; leaning on piano with eyes closed. Engraving? after painting by Lemud. Copyrighted by Boussod-Valadon & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card... More

[Benjamin Franklin reading draft of Declaration of Independence, John ...

G62596 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by J.L.G. Ferris.

[Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, 1620] / P.F. Rothermel pain...

Print showing a woman being helped ashore from a small boat held in position against a rock or ledge by men with ropes and poles; in the background on the right, other Pilgrims kneel in prayer. Entered Accordi... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union artillery shell jacket...

Case: Berg, no. 7-21. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congres... More

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, engraving, Library of Congress

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Reproduction of painting by Elias Gottleib Hausmann in Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequ... More

Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619

20 slaves sold to colonists. Reproduction of painting (?). Illus. in Harper's Monthly Mag., v. 102, 1901 Jan., p. 172. Reference photographic copy available in 4422-A-1. This record contains unverified, old dat... More

The green door - Public domain portrait painting

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress)

[Covers for The Harrison Fisher Calendars]

For 1906 - fashionably dressed woman walking wolfhound. Color lithograph of painting by Harrison Fisher, copyrighted 1905 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Art Repro. Collection. This record contains unverified data ... More

Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, high above Sa...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The walls of a single small cave carved from towering sandstone boulders contain some of the finest remaining rock art created by Chumash Native Americans... More

Franklin the printer - Drawing. Public domain image.

J198444 or J198445 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills.

Your friend John Brown - "his soul is marching on" / enlarged and pain...

Photograph shows John Brown, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right with hands in pockets. Entered According to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J.W. Dodge, in the Clerks Office of the Dist... More

[Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left...

17386 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting(?). Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Queen Victoria, full-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Copyright by Boussod Valadon & Co. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Adams - Public domain portrait painting

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mayflower - A black and white photo of a ship in the ocean

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin signing the Declaration of Independence

Reproduction of painting. Copyright by Charles E. Mills. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Creation (1931) - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from Kislak Collection guide. Watercolor painted by Diego Rivera in San Francisco, Calif. during the summer of 1931, originally commissioned to illustrate a never-published English translation of the Popo... More