public domain art

The creation of Eve Michelang. Buonarota P. ; Ant. Capellan sc

Print after Michelangelo's fresco at the Sistine Chapel shows God creating Eve from the rib of Adam. Caption on print: "Aedificavit Dominus Deus costam, quam tulerat de Adam in mulierem. Gen.C.II.V.22." Trimme... More

Virtue / Iacobus Ligozzus Verones inuenit ac pinxit, Andreas Andreanas

Allegorical print shows a semi-nude female figure resisting two males, one with wings on his head and one with a blindfold over his eyes, a second female, and a blindfolded cupid. After Jacopo Ligozzi. Title fr... 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

[Imaginary view of S. Giacomo di Rialto]

Print shows the church of San Giacomo di Rialto. Restrike from a scratched and reworked plate, with signature removed. Constable, no. 20 Forms part of: Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection (Library of Congress).... More

Hendrick Goltius. Book illustration from Library of Congress

On shelflist card: Attrib. by Hirschmann (see Hollstein) to J. Matham. Trimmed to inside border of arch on all sides. Unident. coll. marks, recto and verso. Bartsch, 172. Hollstein, 297 (3rd state). LC purchase 1804.

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

[Rembrandt in a heavy fur cap] / [monogram] 1631.

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated in pencil. Impression from worn plate, badly printed. Rovinski, 16. Bjorkland, 31-L. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection.

S. Franciscus / Callot sc. ; Israel ex.

St. Francis praying. Signed on plate. Public domain scan of French 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Holy Family]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

[Death of the Virgin]. Rembrandt van Rijn

Title from shelflist card. Rovinski, 99 (2nd state). Bjorkland, 39-A (3rd state). Ex. coll.: Friedrich Kalle (Lugt, 1021). Library has two impressions. No. 99a: Hubbard Collection. No. 99b: Etching ; 41.1 x 31.... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Cottage and farm building, man sketching]

Etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Rovinski, 219. Bjorklund, 45-2. Ex coll. John Webster (Lugt 1554). Hubbard Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card ... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Adoration of the shepherds: night piece]

Print shows a group of shepherds, one at center holding a lantern and removing his hat, stand to the left with Mary, Jesus, and Joseph at the edge of the shadows on the right. Title from shelflist card. Trimmed... 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

Hercules and Telephus, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin

after an etching by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, draughtsman and engraver, 1715-1790 (artist notes) Unknown (artist nationality) Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, the younger, 1715-1790 (original artist) Recto: t... More

Philippe Duc d'Anjou Pint par de Troye ; gravé par le chevalier Edelin...

Print after François de Troy shows portrait of Philippe, Duc d'Anjou, later King Philip V of Spain, as a young man.

Canaletto - [Mountain landscape with three bridges]

George Lothrop Bradley Collection. Constable, no. 25.

Veduta, Degli archi di Costantino, e di Tito, e della meta sudante

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

[Six vignettes: ] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Titles for first four vignettes: 1. Horse-drawn wagon in front of house; 2. Inn sign of spoon in bowl, tree, etc. hanging from post; 3. Boy holding kite in toy store; 4. Man, woman and 3 children on hill This r... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The bucking horse]

Kennedy, 315. Signed with butterfly on plate and 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... Balti... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The embroidered curtain]

Kennedy, 410 (sixth state). Signed with butterfly 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... Balt... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Fosco]

Kennedy, 99. Signed in pencil by artist and S. Haden. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (on recto and on verso, Lugt 1342); H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American pri... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Old houses near Bruges. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Stream in foreground.

James McNeill Whistler - [Jo's bent head]

Print shows model, Joanna Hiffernan, bending forward. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Kennedy, 78 (second state) American prints in th... More

Alta (i.e., altar) in the Church of San Miguel, [Santa Fe, New Mexico]

Stereograph showing interior of Church of San Miguel, with artwork and altar. Descriptive Views of the American Continent. No. 658.

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading, 1879]

Signed on stone with butterfly. Way 13 (first state, two other figures still on the stone).

James McNeill Whistler - [Old Battersea Bridge]

Print shows cancellation proof of Battersea Bridge in London before it was replaced in 1885. Title from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Kennedy, no. 177 (cancellation proof... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The little mast]

[His First Venice series] Kennedy, 185 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Substituted for The bridge in publication. Coll. mark: Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn Museum duplicate stamp. Title... More

Joseph Pennell - Public buildings, Philadelphia.

Constr. scaffolding in bg. Etching by Joseph Pennell. Wuerth, 29. Signed twice and dated on plate. Damaged. Plate destroyed. Pennell Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase ... More

Joseph Pennell - Below Atlantic City

Etching by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Wuerth, 38. Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.J. Atlantic City; Beach scenes... More

View of the Grand Canal - Drawing. Public domain image.

Library has two impressions: no. 24a - Poole, 24. no. 24b - another impression. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Kar... More

Joseph Pennell - The Ponte Vecchio [Florence]

Library has three impressions. No. 54a: [In Gems of American Etchers. New York, 1885] Wuerth, 54. Probably less than 50 signed proofs. Later edition published by Cassel in the Portfolio. Signed and dated twice ... More

Joseph Pennell - [Chestnut St., a sketch]

Wuerth, 90. Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. 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 H... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The kitchen]

Etching by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. Kennedy, 24 (third state). Second state is from his twelve etchings from nature. Signed on plate and in pencil with butterfly. Pennell Fund. This record cont... More

James McNeill Whistler - Barges, Dordrecht

Print shows barges sailing in the Merwede in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title from Beall. Signe... More

"The prisoner" - from the water-color painting by H.F. Farny

Print shows a man stripped to the waist lying on the ground with arms spread, tied to stakes at the hands and feet; a Native, holding a rifle, is seated next to him, in the background is a Native encampment. I... More

Ellen holding a cat, looking left

Drypoint by Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926. Breeskin, 89. Signed in pencil with a title: Fillette et son chat. Call marks: Harris G. Whittemore (Lugt 1342): Roger Marx (Lugt suppl. 2215b). Pennell Fund. This record co... More

[Old oak trees] / MN Moran. - Engraving, Public domain image

Remarque: shell.

Winslow Homer - [Saved] / G.W.H. Ritchie imp. ; Winslow Homer.

Woman being rescued from stormy sea. Copyright by C. Klackner, N.Y. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical ... More

Avénue de Lamotte-Piquet / A. Lepere.

Made to illustrate article of same title by Frantz Jourdain, published in Revue illustré, 1889. L'Architecture à l'exposition universelle series. Signed in ink and numbered 5/35.

Desdemona's house. 1887, Italy. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

House on canal; 2 gondolas in fg. Venice. Copyrighted by C. Clackner, E. 17th St. N.Y.; Etching by Otto Henry Bacher, 1856-1909. Signed and dated on plate. Signed in pencil. Remarque: handkercheif. This record ... More

Paul Gauguin - Les drames de la mer, Bretagne

3 fishermen's wives praying. Hand-colored lithograph by Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903. Guérin, 7. Signed and dated on the plate. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card... More

[Going to market (Mexico)] / Moran.

People going to market with donkeys and sheep. 23261V U.S. Copyright Office.

[Nursing] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Drypoint and printed by Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926. Breeskin, 135 (undescribed state between B.'s 1st and 2nd). Signed in pencil with note: only proof of 1st state, printed by the artist. 25 taken of later state a... More

[Palais royal] / Jo. Pennell del. sc. i[...] 1893.

Print shows people seated in plaza at the Palais-Royal, Paris, France. Title from Wuerth. Signed and dated in pencil. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen... More

Joseph Pennell - [Coutances, no. II]

Wuerth, 185. Edition of 8. Plate destroyed. 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 Hopk... More

[Woman seated, full-length, left hand under chin]

Signed on stone with butterfly. Ink notes on verso. Exchange; Glasgow University; 1980; (DLC/PP-1980:142).

Evening rest Louis K. Harlow ; by Louis K. Harlow

Print shows two sailboats anchored just offshore, with cityscape view in the background, at the time of sunset. BB47627 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right. No. 530. Label on verso with title... More

[Limehouse] / Jo. Pennell.

Print shows view of buildings along waterfront of the Thames River. Title from Beall. Signed in pencil. Plate destroyed. Artist proof. Wuerth, 423 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the c... More

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

[Down Sansom Street from Eight Street]

[His Philadelphia series] Wuerth, 278. Edition of 25. Signed and dated on stone. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Ka... 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

[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

[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

[The Zeppelin starts, no. 2]

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926. Wuerth, 384 Edition of 25. Signed in pencil. Pennell Collection. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions. American prints i... More

Introducing John L. Sullivan - Lithograph, public domain, Library of C...

Bellows, 106. No. 22. Signed on stone and 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 : ... More

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.

Joseph Pennell - Ready to start

Print shows warships in shipyard. Proof before lettering of poster, no. 512d. Reverse image of nos. 512a and 512b. [His American war work series] Wuerth, 512. (Source: Beall) Title and other information from Be... More

The biggest lathe in the world - Drawing. Public domain image.

Library has two impressions: No. 477-1 [His American war work series] Wuerth, 477. Edition of 58. Signed on stone and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Cong... More

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.

Passing crowds / Bertha Lum. - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese people walking across bridge. Signed in pencil on image. Public domain scan of 1920s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Pennell - [Caissons on Vesey Street]

Building construction in New York City. Library has four impressions. Wuerth, no. 854

[ 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

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

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

Citizen artwork at an informal memorial to the victims who died on Uni...

A permanent memorial was completed at the site in 2011. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.... More

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

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More

Artwork "Flood Control," by Karl Lang at the F. Edward Hebert Federal ...

Date: 1942; dimensions: 8' x 19'; medium: limestone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

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

New York, from Brooklyn, 1915 / J. Pennell.

Etching showing the skyline of New York City from Brooklyn in 1915. Signed in pencil. 3rd state; new lines added on the clouds. Library has seven impressions; additional work on six. Wuerth, 671 American prints... More

Sniped - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congres...

Print shows a dead or wounded soldier lying on the ground in a trench with several other soldiers around him. Signed on stone on lower left and in pencil on lower right. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: No. ... 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

Arco di Settimio Severo / Piranesi architetto fec.

Print shows a view of the half-buried Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome, with numbered key. His Views of Rome, no. 87. Le Blanc 17 Nagler 17 Béraldi 14 Forms part of: Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection (Library ... More

Veduta generale del foro romano, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Morel, Francesco.

La Piera del Bando, V. / A. Canal. f.

Print shows many people on the plaza before the Doge's Palace at the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy. Constable, no. 17 Forms part of: George Lothrop Bradley collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Fro... More

The stocking. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman seated, facing slightly right, putting a stocking on a child seated on her lap. Inscribed in ink at top right: quartre vingt sixième, D. Charles L. Freer Collection. Breeskin, 129 American ... More

Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Ja...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, in oval on pedestal with poem. Tiré du cabinet de M. Le Ray de Chaumont &c. After painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. Publi... More

Edgar Degas - [Aux ambassadeurs Mlle. Bécat]

Woman on stage(?) bowing. Stamp of Atelier Degas. Delteil, 49. Pennell Fund (520006).

[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

[The Great Passion: Last Supper] / AD [monogram].

Jesus Christ seated at table with the Apostles. Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the bench / M.C.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Woman, seated, three-quarter length, holding baby. Public domain photograph - female portrait, 19th century, woman, mother, grandmother, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The boy] - A drawing of a woman sitting in a chair

Kennedy, 135 (sixth state). Signed with butterfly on plate. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt. 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Li... More

The gates Pedro Miguel / J. Pennell.

Drawing shows construction of the Pedro Miguel lock gates at the Panama Canal. [Panama Canal series] Edition of 50. Signed and titled on stone on lower right. Signed and titled in pencil on center and lower le... More

[Witch riding backward on a goat accompanied by four putti] / AD [mono...

Exhibit loan 4197-L. Public domain scan German Renaissance print, art, 15th-16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Holy Orders and Matrimon...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mother West Wind / Bertha Lum.

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

[Virgil suspended in a bucket] / L.

Public domain reproduction of art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Glass furnace, Murano] - Public domain dedication image

Print showing exterior view of glass furnace. Title from Kennedy. Kennedy, no. 217 (first state) American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimor... More

The Riva, No. 1, [Italy], Italy

Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Haerlem (Haarlem), 16th century - Public domain city architecture engr...

Flemish (artist nationality) painter, engraver, etcher, and publisher (artist role) Recto: bottom center: (within image) HAERLEM. ; bottom center: (beneath image, but within plate, in German) 13. Nachdem sich H... More

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

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

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

The Betrayal of Christ, Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

From his Passion set. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 5; Hollstein 5; Bartsch 5; Panosfky 112. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso of Gardiner Green Hubbard. (Lugt suppl ... More