public domain art

[Allegorical representation of Time rewarding Industry and punishing I...

Bradley Collection. Inscription: Praemia virtutum .. Pigritiae. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[St. Jerome in his study] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Library has two impressions. No. 59a: Coll. mark: Possibly Baron H.A. von Derschau (Lugt, 2510). Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. No. 59b: Co... More

[Self-, aged 28] - Public domain engraving

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Bartsch, 188, 245. Hollstein, 188. Inscription, above: Aldegrevers hec est ... anno sue aetatis XXVIII; inscription, below: Anno domini MDXXX. Coll. mar... More

Domenico Beccafumi - St. Philip (or Andrew?)

Print shows St. Philip standing with a cross in one hand and a book in the other hand. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... More

Albrecht Durer - [St. George on horseback] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Cut at or within plate mark. Meder, 56. Hollstein, 56. Bartsch, 54. Panofsky, 161. Coll. mark on verso (Lugt 677). Library has two impressions... More

Christ carrying the cross / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]; Andr...

Print shows Jesus Christ struggling under the weight of the cross. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Fabio Buonsignori Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints... More

The Virgin and Child / G. Rhenus Bon. In., B. Coriol. Eq. Sculp.

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke albu... More

The Virgin and Child / Bart. Coriolanus Fecit. Bononiae anno 1630.

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke albu... More

William Hogarth - The Enraged Musician, Dayton C. Miller Collection

British (artist nationality) painter, etcher, and engraver (artist role) Recto: l. c.: The Enraged Musician ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Design'd, Engrav'd, & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth Nov.br the 30.th 1741. Ac... More

Veduta del Giardino di Belvedere, e Abitazione Pontificia architettura...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ceccarini.

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Fox women - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in pencil on image. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, ... More

Joseph Pennell - [Westminster, evening]

Print shows Westminster Palace and bridge across the Thames River at night. Title from Beall. Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Wuerth, 509 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collect... More

[Steam shovel at work in the Culebra Cut]

Prints shows a steam shovel emptying into train cars to excavate the Panama Canal. [His Panama Canal series] Wuerth, 232. Edition of 50. Signed on stone and in pencil. (Source: Beall) Title from Joseph Pennell'... More

[Four children dancing beneath blossoming cherry trees] / Bertha Lum.

K66799 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Alternate title published in: American prints in the Library of Congress, p. 272, #7. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / ... More

[Goblin dance] / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese people dancing in moonlight. Signed in pencil on image. Public domain scan of 1910s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

O-Yuki, the frost fairy / Bertha Lum

Japanese woman in the [frosted?] brances of a tree. Color woodcut by Bertha Lum, copyrighted by Bertha Lum. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The case of Sergeant Delaney - Drawing. Public domain image.

Printed by Bolton Brown. Bellows, 140. Signed with initials on stone; signed in pencil by artist and printer. Pencil dedication in the artist's hand; To Josephus Daniels Esq. with my compliments. Title and othe... More

Surf riders, Honolulu / CWB.

Five surfers riding waves. K147724 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed with monogram: CWB; titled on block, and also signed in red pencil at bottom left.

[ Faun playing an aulos], Dayton C. Miller Collection

American (artist nationality) illustrator and art editor of The New Yorker magazine (artist role) Recto: top center: (title) THE / NEW YORKER ; u. l.: (printed date) March 14, 1925 ; u. r.: (printed price) Pric... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain print

Three woodblock prints by Ilka Kolsky. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Albert Schweitzer - Public domain portrait engraving

Not in Guiot. Artist's proof. Signed in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John ... More

Shirley W. Sheldon, water color painter, Saunderstown, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-5, Shirley W. Sheldon, Waterway, Saunderstown, with her paintings; 6-8, Dutch Island light house in oil; 8-9, Dutch Island light house in water color; 10-13, Dutch Island; 14-17, Saunderstown scen... More

[Woman reading a book (Eloyse et Abailard)] / F. Boucher in del.; Dema...

Color crayon manner print by Gilles Demarteau, 1722-1776. Paris : chez Demarteau. "La lectoise(?)." Béraldi 36. "Treizieme Estampe...No. 218." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

Mother West Wind / Bertha Lum.

Abstract with human faces and owl. No copyright renewal. Signed in pencil in image.

The Virgin, Child, and saints / Iacopo Ligozia Veronese pittore del Se...

Print shows Madonna and Child surrounded by saints. After Jacopo Ligozzi. Dedication: All [...] Signor Nicolo Gaadi in Fiorenze. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs D... More

Francesco Vanni - The Blessed Virgin, 16th century

Print showing the Blessed Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Possibly... More

Two nude men: one standing, one reclining / Micarino, fec.

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 46. Graphic sampler, pp. 10-28

Circus Maximus, 16th century - Drawing. Public domain image.

from a book by Onofrio Panvinio, historian and archeologist, 1529-1568, published posthumously (artist notes) Unknown (artist nationality) Recto: top edge: (beneath moat, in Latin) POMPAE · CIRCENSIS · A · PRIS... More

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Head of Cupid, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows head and shoulders of Cupid with eyes closed. After Guido Reni. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. ... More

" Love stole the pipe of sleeping Pan and play'd / Then with his voice...

after a drawing by Thomas Stothard, history painter, illustrator and designer, 1755-1834 (artist notes) British (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834 (original artist) Recto: t... More

Albrecht Durer - Adoration of the Magi AD monogram

Print shows Madonna presenting infant Jesus to the Three Wise Men. Trimmed to image. Print no. 208 from Marsh Collection.

Veduta di S. Eustachio / N. Matraini del. ; J. Ottaviani inc.

Print shows a distant view of Oranjestad on Saint Eustatius in the Netherlands Antilles, with many ships in the foreground. Illus. in: Atlante dell' America, contenente le migliori carte geografiche, e topogra... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain scan / print

Gran tavola cosmografica contenente le rotazioni annuali terresti corr...

Includes text, four hemispherical views of the Earth showing night and day and different times and latitudes, and colored illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

Public Domain Images - Musique (Music), Dayton C. Miller Collection

after a painting possibly by Emmanuel Noterman, portrait, genre and animal painter and etcher, 1808-1863, or by Zacharias Noterman, genre and animal painter and etcher, 1813-1874; printed by Lemercier et Cie, P... More

Joseph Pennell - [Archway, Siena] / Jo Pennell.

Man with oxcart in street below arch. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below plate.

Madame Mole-Reymond Jasinski - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, her body turned to the left, facing front, with her hands in a large muff. Includes a remarque on the lower left that appears to be a self-portrait of t... More

Joseph Pennell - Le Stryge - A black and white drawing of a man sittin...

Bird's-eye view of French city looking past gargoyle. Etching by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Wuerth, 207. Edition of 25? Pencil note: To Helen....from...P, Xmas '93. Plate destroyed. Source unknown. This record ... More

[The golden cornice, I] / J. Pennell.

Street view, New York City(?). Signed in pencil. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The trains that come, and the trains that go

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Philadelphia, Pa. Etching and drypoint by Joseph Pennell. Wuerth, 712. Edition of 75? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Nude study: woman lying on a pillow

Printed by Bolton Brown. Bellows, 130. Signed on stone; signed in pencil by artist and printer. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection /... More

Skyscraper office building - Public domain architectural drawing

Architectural drawing shows building as perspective projection rendering. Drawing made when Adams was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Purchase; GL & Abigail Adams Greenway; 2016; (DLC/PP-20... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic print

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royal garden, Schleissheim, Poplars; evening

[His Danube series, no. 10?] Signed Otto, on plate. Note attached with artist's stamp. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled... More

Jean de la Fontaine / peint par Garnerey d'après Rigault ; gravé par P...

Print shows Jean de la Fontaine, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval.

Maternal caress. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Title from Beall. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Signed with artist's monogram stamp on bottom center of plate. Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy. Insc... More

[Adam and Eve], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title from Bartsch. Signed with monogram and dated on block. State 2. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Bartsch, 1. Meder, 1. Heller, 116. Panofsky, 108. Dodgson, 39. Tietze, 258. Strauss, 42. Exhibited: Worl... More

The map Historic map, Library of Congress

2 young women examining map. Drypoint by Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926. Breeskin, 127 (3d state). Pencil title: La Lecture. Pennell Fund, 380001. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card t... More

A rainy night, Venice - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gondola in right foreground. Exhibited: "Whistler and his circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003.

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 9]

Plate 9 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

[Christ preaching]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, NT; Aritsts Works; Shelf.

[The captain], Jacques Callot - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows Capitano, a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte, with theatrical stage set and spectators in background. Title from shelflist card. From: Balli di Sfessania. Lieure, 289.

Parlamentum Londinese. Abbildung Session des Parlaments zu Londen ...

London House of Parliament, 1630, with a key showing arrangement of court officials, attendants, etc. Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Une faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrum...

published by Martin Engelbrecht, engraver, 1684-1756 (artist notes) German (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Recto: l. l.: C.P.S.C. Maj.; l. r.: Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A.V.; u. r. :170.; l. c.: (tit... More

Benjamin West - [The calling of Isaiah]

Etched study for wing of altarpiece made for Royal Chapel, Windsor. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... More

Young Girl and Death - Engraving, Public domain image

Cliché verre by Corot. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cliché verre; youth; Death; Artists works; Shelf.

Winslow Homer - [Eight bells] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Library has two impressions. No 5a signed and dated on plate. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Bal... More

Winslow Homer - Improve the present hour

2 women seated on shore and repairing fish net. Library has two impressions. Etching by Winslow Homer. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr.) - WOMEN PORTRAITS [18 ]. This record contains unverified data from caption ca... More

Ed. Bellamy / W.H.W. Bicknell sc.

Print shows Edward Bellamy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Signed on plate "W.H.W. Bicknell." Publication date based on copyright statement. Printed at top right: "Copyright 1890 by A.J. Philpott a... More

New Oxford Street, [London] / Jo. Pennell.

Signed on plate. Signed in graphite on lower center. Edition of 10? Plate destroyed. Ownership stamp on verso: "JPER" [in a circle, monogram of Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins]. Wuerth, 165 American prints... More

The sentinel from the river

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell. Pennell's Yosemite Valley series. Wuerth, 252. Edition of 25. Signed and dated on plate, signed in crayon. Pennell Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from captio... More

Tonhalle ... Ausstellung von Arbeiten der in der Schweiz internierten ...

Poster shows a pensive German soldier resting his head on his fist. Text announces an exhibition of artwork by German prisoners of war held in Switzerland. Location, times, and entrance fee included. Forms part... More

[The Lackawanna viaduct] / J. Pennell.

Pennell Collection. Plate destroyed. Signed on plate in reverse. Wuerth, 733.

A song of the brook / Bertha Lum.

Print shows a Japanese woman standing atop a waterfall, playing a flute, with birds flying around her feet. Signed at bottom "Bertha Lum 1920." Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright st... More

La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille (The Artistic Struggle / Quadrille)

printed by Guillet, Paris, lithographer (artist notes) French (artist nationality) genre painter, illustrator and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l. (signed) J Worms ; u. c.: La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille; l. ... More

Hawaiian fisherman / CWB.

Man on shore with net. K142461 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed with monogram: CWB; and titled on block.

[Adam and Eve], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title from Bartsch. Signed with monogram and dated on block. State 2. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Bartsch, 1. Meder, 1. Heller, 116. Panofsky, 108. Dodgson, 39. Tietze, 258. Strauss, 42. Exhibited: Worl... More

Ugo da Carpi - The resurrection, 16th century

Print shows Jesus, dressed in a shroud, stepping out of his tomb as it rests in a cave. On the right, the women weap, and on the left, the guards tumble over each other in fright. Title from Graphic sampler / ... More

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

Title from caption card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. No call number on caption card

[The knight, Death, and the Devil] / AD [monogram].

Title from mount. Hubbard Collection. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 186.

Death and the Devil surprise two women DH monogram

Print shows Death and the Devil interrupting the lives of two wealthy women. Bradley Collection. Stamped on verso: Tilgungs-Stempel K.K.C. Stamped on verso: Kupferstich-Sammlung der Königl: Museen. Stamped on ... More

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... More

Jason returning with the golden fleece / AA [monogram of Andrea Andrea...

Print showing Jason wearing armor and holding sword in right hand, returning to his ship on the left with right arm raised and carrying the golden fleece over his left arm. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled... More

The Virgin, Child, and St. John the Baptist / G.R., In., B.C. Eq.F., 1...

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus with young St. John the Baptist. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print ... More

[John Wesley M.H.] / J. Faber, fecit.

Title from shelflist card. Inscription below portrait: Fellow of Lincoln Colledge Oxford. Jno. Williams, pinxt. J. Faber, fecit. On shelflist card: Printed for and sold by Robt. Sayer ... . Stamp on verso: depo... More

The solemnization of the marriage between Louis XIV, King of France, a...

Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. LeBlanc, no. 99. Public domain scan of French 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [Castle in ruins]

Marsh collection. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veduta del porto de Malamocco ai lidi di Venezia / F. Tironi pinxit ; ...

Print showing harbor scene in Venice. Caption continues: Fortezza S. Pietro, eretta circa l'anno 1650.

Jean Honoré Fragonard - La bonne mere / Fragonard Pinxt. ; Audebert Sc...

Mother attending to three children. Title translated: The good mother. Public domain photograph of mother and child portrait, young woman, infant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic drawing

Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic print

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

[Boar, mastiff, thistle, raspberries, lily, moths and insects]

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

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

The bagpiper. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cut within plate mark. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 90, Hollstein 90, Bartsch 91, Panofsky 198. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso of LC: Gardiner Green Hubbard (Lugt... More

Her most excellent majesty Charlotte Queen of Great Britain / Frye ad ...

Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Bryan, 2 Smith, 2 Duplessis, 9194:15 Dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection.

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Logo for Lyons Transportation Company of Erie, Pennsylvania Adams '55

Industrial design drawing shows logo on tractor trailer truck in motion. Purchase; G.L. and Abigail Adams Greenway; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:143). Accession box no. PR 13 CN 2016:143 (WHA 0111)

Portrait of himself - Public domain portrait painting

Signed with monogram on plate; signed in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John... More

Altra veduta degli avanzi dell Pronao del Templo della Concordia Caval...

View of the temple of Concordia, with numbered key. Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rhinoceros / AD.. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print of rhinoceros made to celebrate the arrival of an Indian rhinoceros in Lisbon on May 20, 1515. B.136, 3rd edition. Meder, 273; 6th edition. Haag, ca. 1620. Stamp of K.E.von Liphart. Watermark Eagle. 2096... More

Nocturne - Drawing. Public domain image.

Marine view showing ship at night. Signed in pencil with butterfly. From: First Venice set. Kennedy, no. 184 (fourth state) Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congres... More

Domenico Beccafumi - Four doctors of the church(?)

Print shows four men gathered together in scholarly work. Two of the men hold books, while one man takes notes. Attributed to Domenico Beccafumi. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints... More

La Flûte lui tint lieu de Lyre chez Admète (The Flute took the place ...

after Hubert François Bourguignon d'Anville, called Gravelot, painter, draughtsman, engraver, 1699-1773 (artist notes) French (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Gravelot, Hubert François Bourguignon d'... More

Albertus Durerus Noricus Pictor Eminentiss, engraving, Library of Cong...

Head and shoulders, left profile; circular portrait of Albrecht Dürer. Ref. copy may be in Curatorial Section. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I. (Unid.); BI... More

The guard gate [under construction], Gatun Lock, Panama

Etching by Joseph Pennell. Wuerth, 627 (trial proof, signed on plate and in pencil with note). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Pines by the sea / Bertha Lum

Pines along road toward sea with sailboats. K66804 U.S. Copyright Office. Color woodcut copyrighted by Bertha Lum. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Correct Position for the Fingers, Dayton C. Miller Collection

Unknown (artist nationality) Color relief halftone. (medium) Good condition. (condition) Collier's, 28 June 1924. (provenance) Flute (instrument) 20th century (century) Greeting Cards and Magazine Covers (mille... More