The Public Domain Review

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Not-for-profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas — focusing on works now fallen into the public domain.

Smaller posts surface images, books, audio, and film (sourced from places like Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Met, Rijksmusuem, Wellcome, etc.) — and we've also 300+ long-form essays (✍️ submissions welcome!)

Here we'll mostly be tooting about content on our site. 🎺

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The Public Domain Review13h ago
Line up released for Glastonbury's new Chromatic Wood Type stage! 🤠 https://buff.ly/2uWLUsQ
The Public Domain Review16h ago
Spanning half a millennium — from Dürer to Dali with a whole lot of Caspar David Friedrich in between — the images in our piece all feature a perspective known as *Rückenfigur*: a focus on the human back https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ruckenfigur
The Public Domain Review19h ago

Mini no.3: The first and last tale from May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories (1923): two indelible visions of the afterlife from an unjustly forgotten voice of modernism.

Available for 25% off in our pre-sale (until April 29), along with two other titles: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/pdr-press-minis/

The Public Domain Review21h ago

#OnThisDay in 1731, Daniel Defoe passed away due to "lethargy".

J. H. Pearl looks at the power of utopias, particularly in Defoe's Crusoe novels, to disrupt our surrender to orthodoxy: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defoe-and-the-distance-to-utopia #otd

The Public Domain Review1d ago
These aerial renderings, based off an 1860s land survey and executed in watercolour for the Index of American Design (1936), depict a lost 19th-century Manhattan of grand country estates and vast private gardens: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manhattans-last-arcadia
The Public Domain Review1d ago

“As if an angel dropped down from the clouds”, William Blake's 1809 illustration to Henry IV by a certain William Shakespeare whose birthday is celebrated #onthisday in 1564 (also his death day in 1616).

See our collection of art inspired by his plays: https://buff.ly/2IBS2YF

The Public Domain Review2d ago

"The Book of Divination", a Lubok print from the collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895).

See more highlights from the collection here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th%E2%80%9319th-century/

The Public Domain Review2d ago

“This divination of one's future comes from King Solomon's wisdom, for the one who takes numbers circle and drops a wheat grain in the center of it...”

More highlights from the Lubki print collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895) https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th-19th-century/

The Public Domain Review2d ago

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.

More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882

The Public Domain Review2d ago
The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856 #earthday #climatechange