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 Review2h ago
Double birthday salutations to W. B. Yeats + Fernando Pessoa — both fascinated by the occult, both with a penchant for heteronyms and both appearing in @WithEdSimon's essay on the ouija board writings of Pearl Curran (AKA Patience Worth): https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ghostwriter-and-ghost-the-strange-case-of-pearl-curran-patience-worth #onthisday #otd
The Public Domain Review4h ago
Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/karl-blossfeldt-s-urformen-der-kunst-1928 #otd
The Public Domain Review7h ago
For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
The Public Domain Review23h ago
An unusually chirpy looking “grotesque” mask, from the hand of 16th-century. Flemish engraver Frans Huys. More (less chirpy examples) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flemish-mask-designs-in-the-grotesque-style-1555?utm_content=buffer157d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The Public Domain Review1d ago

Great little alphabet book in which the letters are made up from acrobatically contorted bodies, and the accompanying text from often as equally contorted rhymes: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-funny-alphabet-ca-1850

More “human alphabets” here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-human-alphabet

The Public Domain Review1d ago
”Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon” — Kevin Dann on a New York polymath and a seemingly unassuming fish: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/dr-mitchill-and-the-mathematical-tetrodon
The Public Domain Review1d ago
Behold the "Rowing-Bath" from 1916, the “newest contribution to the enjoyment of living” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-rowing-bath-1916?utm_content=buffer87d47&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The Public Domain Review1d ago
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Illustration from a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. More rainbow-coloured "grotesques" here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours @BeineckeLibrary
The Public Domain Review2d ago
In his essay “The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris”, @MikeJayNet explores how consuming powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dreams
The Public Domain Review2d ago
One of the many great illustrations found in actress Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886), a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/delsarte-system/