public domain art

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

Richard Low 17th century - Public domain engraving

after a painting possibly by John Hayls, portraitist, 1600?-1679; published by John Smith, painter, draughtsman, and engraver, 1652-1743 (artist notes) British (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (art... More

Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecedebant Victimam...

Unknown (artist nationality) Recto: top center: (in Latin) Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecede- / bant Victimam et Hecatoniben. / Sacra enim sua nunquam / celebrabant antiqui sine musicis ... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - The angel appearing to the shepherds

Etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Rovinski, 44 (3d state). Bjorklund, 34-I (3d state). Modern impression? Collector's mark of Mary Jane Morgan (Lugt 1879). Gardiner Green Hubbard Collection.... More

St. Jerome / Guid. Rhen. inuen., Barthol. Coriolanus, eques, sculpsit ...

Print shows Saint Jerome in adoration before a crucifix. Exhibit caption (2014): This chiaroscuro woodcut comes from the Library's Pembroke Album collection assembled between ca. 1683 and 1733 by Philip and Tho... 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

Ioannes Ab Eyck pictor / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Jan Van Eyck, half-length portrait, facing right. Illus. from: Académie des sciences et des arts ... / Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, Liv. VI, p. 379. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 43

Das Weisskunigs Erfahrung in Mummerei (Of the White King's Introducti...

German (artist nationality) painter and woodcut designer (artist role) Recto: l. c.: (initials in border of tablecloth) H B ; l. l.: (in pencil) H B Wm ; l. c.: (arrow, pointing upward) ; verso: (in pencil) l. ... 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

Le Fluteur (The Flutist) - Public domain scenic engraving

after a painting by Alexis Grimou, painter, 1678-1733 (artist notes) French (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Grimou, Alexis, 1678-1733 (original artist) Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) Peint par G... More

François Boucher - Watteau, par la Nature, ... sous des traits si gala...

Watteau, half-length portrait, facing left, holding paint brush. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Canaletto - [The portico with a lantern]

George Lothrop Bradley Collection. Constable, no. 11. Pallucchini, no. 11 (2nd state).

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

[Two thatched cottages on the edge of a river]

Marsh Collection. LeBlanc, no. 106.

Decoration du Bal Masqué donné par le roy ... / C.N. Cochin filius del...

Decorations at the masked ball given by King Louis XV of France in February 1745, on the occasion of the marriage of his son, the Dauphin, to Marie Therese of Spain; also visible, ballroom interior and numerous... More

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.

James McNeill Whistler - [Hôtel de la Promenade, Loches]

Kennedy, 391. Signed with butterfly on plate; signed with pencil butterfly on verso. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a); Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. Amer... More

Duke of Grafton / W. Haines sculpt.

Print shows Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, in oval. Stauffer, 1200 Inscribed in pencil on verso: 74-430. Former call number: BIOG FILE - Grafton, Duke of

James McNeill Whistler - [High Street, Brussels]

Kennedy, 358 (second state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a) and Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. American pr... More

Rt. Hon'ble. George Grenville / W. Haines sculpt.

Print shows George Grenville, Prime Minister of Great Britain, bust portrait, facing front, in oval. Stauffer, 1202 Inscribed in pencil on verso: 73-501. Former call number: BIOG FILE - Grenville, George 1712-1770

James McNeill Whistler - [T. A. Nash's fruit-shop]

Kennedy, 263 (third state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. mark: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prin... More

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.

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

[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

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

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

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading by lamplight]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table. Exhibit caption (2014): With deft handling of line and light, painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler created this s... More

Shipping on the Giudecca, Venice

Ships and boats with buildings in background. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James McNeill Whistler - Florence Leyland

Kennedy, 110 (ninth state). Signed with butterfly on plate. Stamp of C. W. Dowdeswell on verso. Identified as drypoint rather than etching, and state verified 12/2018, in Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, ... More

Palazzo Casa d'Oro / Otto [artist's stamp].

Print showing the Cà d'Oro in Venice, at the edge of the Grand Canal; gondola in the foreground. Signed below plate with artist's stamp "Otto". Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series. Exhibite... More

A canal in Venice / Otto., Italy

Print showing a canal with boats in Venice. Title from note attached to mount. Signed below plate in pencil "Otto". Artist stamp on note attached to mount. Venetian series, no. 28. Exhibited: "Whistler and his ... More

[The rialto, Venice] - Public domain scenic drawing

Poole, no. 23. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fonte Nuovo, Siena, Italy] / Jo Pennell.

People bending over fountain or trough near arched structure. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below plate. Wuerth 82.

Salute from the lagoon / Joseph Pennell.

View of lagoon with boats, Santa Maria della Salute in the distance. Signed in pencil. Wuerth, no. 99 Exhibited: "Whistler and his circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2003.

[Landscape with cattle]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows cattle grazing near a river. Signed on plate on vellum. Remarque: men at capstan, fish, birds. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the c... More

[Loys Delteil] / Loys Delteil, ad. vivum d&sc.

Title from shelflist card. Pencil note: Hommage M.G. Geffroy, Loys Delteil. Pennell Fund, 510022.

[Kneeling in an armchair] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Breeskin, 186. No. 10. 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 Hopkins... More

Joseph Pennell - [Chimneys, Pittsburgh]

Wuerth, 514. Edition of 30? Signed in pencil. Ex. coll.: E. A. Ballard. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compil... More

Joseph Pennell - [Building Dover Pier]

Wuerth, 585. Edition of 40? Plate in LC. 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... More

Old and new Rome / J. Pennell. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of...

Bird's-eye view of Rome with ruins of Forum in foreground. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil below plate.

[Independence Square and the State House]

[His Philadelphia series] Wuerth, 288. Edition of 50. Signed in reverse on stone. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by K... More

Joseph Pennell - [Main Street, Germantown]

[His Philadelphia series] Wuerth, 300. Edition of 25. Signed in reverse on stone. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by K... More

Joseph Pennell - [Scene at Taormina]

View of Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily. Wuerth, 658 (trial proof). Edition of 40? Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a cat... More

In the Zeppelin shed, Leipzig during World War I

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Proof drawn on with pencil. Wuerth, 381. Edition of 25. Signed and dated in pencil with note - "The air ship shed; Leipsig, July 1914." Signed in stone with inscription... More

Joseph Pennell - Oil refining, Whiting, Indiana

Library has two impressions No. 729-1: [The horseshoe curve, Pennsylvania Railroad], [His Railroad series] Wuerth, 729. Edition of 50? Trial proof. Signed in pencil. Ex coll.: E. A. Ballard. Plate destroyed. ... More

Joseph Pennell - London, from my window

Drypoint by Joseph Pennell, 1860-1926. In: Joseph Pennell, Etchers and etching. N.Y., 1920, no. 33. Library has two impressions. No. 683-1: Wuerth, 683 (trial proof). Plate in LC. Margins trimmed. Pennell Coll... More

Love of winter / George Bellows. - Engraving, Public domain image

Winter scene with large group of ice skaters in rural setting. The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné / Lauris Mason, assisted by Joan Ludman. Millwood, New York : KTO Press, 1977, no. 50. Sig... More

The gun pit, no. 1 / Pennell. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of ...

From American war work series. Wuerth, 491 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 360 Gift; Pennell Collection.

Lovis Corinth - [Der Walchensee] / Corinth.

Print shows landscape view of the Walchensee in Germany. Title from Viewpoints. Signed in pencil lower right. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ....... More

Legs of the sea / George Bellows.

Beach scene with swimmers, boaters, and a well-dressed couple resting after a picnic. The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné / Lauris Mason, assisted by Joan Ludman. Millwood, New York : KTO P... More

Bansy (Bunsee - Bamboo Nose Flute), Dayton C. Miller Collection

Flemish (artist nationality) marine painter, etcher, and ethnographer (artist role) Recto: l. l.: 2.me Section. ; bottom center: BANSY. ; l. r.: Livraison. 24.me ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Paul Ritti / July 19... More

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

Public domain art prints - Public domain print

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

Swan dive / Mabel W. Jack. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Con...

Woman in the midst of a swan dive. Signed on stone. Signed and titled in pencil. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002.

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

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith joins Sharon Tyson and visiting childr...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

East Jesus is an experimental, habitable, extensible artwork in progre...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Volcian Campagna / Jno. G. Chapman, fect. Roma.

Print shows a woman praying at a cross as people travel with donkeys through a rural landscape with ruins in the distance. Signed in pencil. Date based on period when Chapman lived in Italy. American prints in... More

General Porters headquarters camp in front of Yorktown, Virginia

No. 370. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... 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

Avenue of the Allies Childe Hassam, Oct(?) 19th 1918 ..

Crowded New York City street with flags flying from buildings. Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Childe Hassam Celebrates Allies. During World War I, New York's Fifth Avenue was temporarily rechrist... More

Engaged man sings-- "Dearest wilt thou then as now?" / J. Whistler.

Man and woman seated by window, and another man looking in the window with an astonished look. Signed & dated on stone & in pencil. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / com... More

[ Soldier playing flute, recto; fisherman, verso]

German (artist nationality) history and battle painter (artist role) Recto: (in blue pencil, erased?) l. r. 1796; verso: (in pencil) u. l.: Henning Oppermann / Nov. 1928 / $28.00; l. c.: Jac. Matth. [?]; l. l.:... More

The accident in Lombard Street Philada. 1787 / design'd and engraved b...

Print shows Chimney sweeps laughing at girl, who has dropped a pie on the street. The artist's residence and studio appear at left. Includes four line verse: The pye from Bake-house she had brought / But let it... More

Gerard Valck - The Flute Lesson, Wurlitzer catalog of musical instrum...

after a mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant, painter, draughtsman, and mezzotint engraver, 1623-1677, based on a painting by Gerard Pietersz. van Zyl, called Geraers, or Gerards Geraers, portrait and genre painter,... More

Saints Peter and John curing the sick

Print shows the apostles Peter and John raising their hands to heal a cripple seated on the floor in front of them while a group of people watch. Anonymous artist after Raphael. Title from Graphic sampler / com... More

[Lagoon, noon] / [butterfly monogram].

Print showing sailing ships and boats in the Venice lagoon. Title from Kennedy. Signed in pencil on tab with butterfly. From: Second Venice Set (Twenty-six etchings). Kennedy, no. 216 (second state) American pr... More

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

[La Mairie, Loches] - A drawing of a man and a woman in front of a bui...

Kennedy, 382 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. mark: H.G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a ... More

Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadru...

Chinese admiring Frenchman and pig in the Garden of Plants, Peking. Signed with initials on stone. Delteil, 2597 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... More

[Upright Venice] / [butterfly monograpm].

[His Twenty-six etchings series] Kennedy, 205 (first state). Signed with butterfly in pencil. Coll. marks: B.B. MacGeorge (Lugt suppl. 394); R. Hartshorne (Lugt suppl. 2215b). Title and other information from B... More

Edgar Degas - [Au Louvre: la peinture (Mary Cassatt)]

Print shows two women viewing paintings at the Louvre, as seen through a doorway. Delteil, 29 (20th state) Exhibited: "Pennell Legacy : Two Centuries of Printmaking" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.... More

William Shakespeare / Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., engraving, Library of Co...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

View of the Castello Quarter near Casa Jankovitz, where Whistler lodge...

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

Mother Marie dressing her baby after its bath / Mary Cassatt

Drypoint by Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926. Breeskin, 142. Signed in pencil. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[The procession] / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock prin...

Japanese women parading with lanterns and woman in sedan chair. No copyright renewal. Signed in pencil.

Georg Pencz - [The Triumph of Time]

Allegorical representation of Time, winged man, on chariot pulled by two deer. Signed with monogram on plate. Inscription: Tempus edax...aut fuerint. Part of series: Six triumphs described by Petrarch. Bartsch,... More

Giulio Romano - Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... More

[St. Christopher with infant Christ], engraving, Library of Congress

Title from shelflist card. Stains. Altdorfer, 85. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albrecht Durer - [St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... More

Albrecht Durer - Saint Christopher facing left AD monogram

Print shows Saint Christopher crossing a river carrying infant Jesus on his shoulders. Trimmed to plate mark. Print no. 53 from Marsh Collection.

Heinrich Aldegrever - [Jan van Leyden], 16th century

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 182. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The entombment, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italia...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

The Flute Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Otto Vorsterman, painter, 17th century (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Vorsterman, Otto, 17th century (original artist) Recto: u. l.: (engr... More

Christ at the table of Simon the Pharisee / Raphel VRB in Ven, In Mant...

Print shows Jesus sitting at one end of a table at which others are seated. He talks to Simon while another person washes his feet. Earlier attributed to Raphael. Monograpm of Andreani. Title from Graphic samp... 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

[L'assaut général des Anglois à la citadelle]

Lieure, 658 (3d state, trimmed). Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The presentation (of Jesus) in the temple (oblong)

Hannah approaches Simeon who is holding Jesus. Etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Rovinski, 49. Bjorklund 40-1 (2nd state). Trimmed inside upper platemark. Gardner Greene Hubbard Collection. ... More

[St. Jerome beside a pollard willow] / Rembrandt.

Print shows a bearded St. Jerome seated, at work on his books at the foot of a large tree trunk. A lion looks out from behind the tree. Hubbard Fund 440061. Title devised. Second state. Rovinski, 103. Bjorklun... More

[David and Goliath]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Etching by Rembrandt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, OT; Artists works; Shelf.

Martinus Hemskerkus Harl / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Martin Van Heemskerk, half-length portrait, standing, facing left. Illust. from: Academia des sciences et des arts ... /Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, LIV. VI., p. 435. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 51

[ Recorder player and singer] - Public domain portrait drawing

German (artist nationality) painter and etcher (artist role) Verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/491 (inscription) Brush and grey wash drawing. (medium) Fine condition. (condition) Henning Oppermann, Buchantiquariat... More