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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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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.

More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/harry-clarkes-looking-glass #OTD

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · 3d ago

Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cyanotypes-of-british-algae-by-anna-atkins-1843?utm_content=buffer43f58&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #OTD

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · 6d ago

Big fish, serious man — one of Marcus Selmer’s wonderful photographs of 19th-century Norwegians. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marcus-selmer-s-photographs-of-19th-century-norwegians

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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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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

At the height of the US postcard craze, “tall-tale” cards often imagined a land of giant-sized plenty. In this 1909 series, Californian rail cars haul colossal fruit and veg — turning agricultural pride into something surreal and strangely beautiful: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/giant-produce-postcards/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026

Amida on the Lotus, from Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata, 1665.

Available as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/plate-from-china-illustrata/

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026

Not without controversy, #onthisday in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received patent 174,465 from the US Patent Office , and so became known as the inventor of the telephone. After telephones he turned his attention to enormous geometric kites... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-graham-bell-s-tetrahedral-kites-1903-9 #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026

#OnThisDay in 1665, the 1st issue of the @royalsociety@mastodon.social's Philosophical Transactions was published — the oldest and longest-running scientific journal in the world. Here's our collection of some of its stranger pieces from over the centuries... https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/source/the-royal-society #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Died #onthisday in 1815, Franz Mesmer, controversial proponent of "animal magnetism". More in our essay "Mesmerising Science" on how a craze for animal magnetism sessions in 18th-century Paris led to the modern clinical trial we know + love today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mesmerising-science-the-franklin-commission-and-the-modern-clinical-trial #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

A few of the 53 "potted landscapes" made for each of the stations of the Tōkaidō road, the most important route in Edo-period Japan. After they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate them: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/53-stations-of-the-tokaido-as-potted-landscapes-1848

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

Nicholas Jeeves looks at the "Roy Gold Collection", a remarkable library of around 9000 books, the vast majority of which have been carefully and systematically defaced by the elusive Gold... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/remembering-roy-gold-who-was-not-excessively-interested-in-books

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

Moritz von Schwind’s Cat Symphony (1868) was made as a gift for a violinist friend and fellow member of the Black Cats society.

More on its history in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/katzensymphonie/

And buy a print of it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/cat-symphony/

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

A few of the 28 spectacular "pattern poems" produced by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus in his 9th-century work De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross). More examples, and an explanation of how they work, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

Javanese artist Raden Soelardi’s elegant 1919 illustrations of the shadow puppetry form known as wayang kulit: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/javanese-shadow-puppets/

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

“Eastern Sports and Western Bodies”, Daniel Elkind's essay on the 19th-century exercise fad of club swinging and its links with the history of colonialism, immigration, and capitalist culture: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eastern-sports-and-western-bodies

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Ye Butcher, Ye Baker, Ye Candlestick-Maker (1908) — Although at first glance this little book could be mistaken for an eighteenth-century English chapbook, it was in fact published in New York in 1908 as a parody: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ye-butcher-ye-baker-ye-candlestick-maker-1908

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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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Pages from a beautifully illustrated account of a journey made from Venice to the Middle East. Although the book was once purported to reflect a journey made in 1465 it is actually a German translation of an account from more than a century earlier: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/journey-from-venice-to-palestine-mount-sinai-and-egypt-ca-1467

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Flea as seen through a microscope, one of the many wonderful images from Micrographia (1665), the groundbreaking work of microscopy by English polymath Robert Hooke, who died #onthisday in 1703. Featured in our essay “Scurvy and the Terra Incognita”: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/scurvy-and-the-terra-incognita #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Still Life with Asparagus (1697) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen Coorte.

Available as a print in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-asparagus/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

#SundayReads: Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origins of a pair of lurid “translations” from 1927 marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Seed sowing time — entry for #March in the Labors of the Months section of the Très Riches Heures, probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Front cover to British Goblins (1880), a book of Welsh myth and folklore. Amongst the supernatural beings described are "Bwbachod", friendly goblins who help out with chores; and "Gwyllion", female fairies who haunt the mountain roads: https://buff.ly/3tjKPFI #StDavidsDay

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

More than a century before the mobile phone, a #Victorian love poem using #textspeak. See two even earlier examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nineteenth-century-textspeak/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

.@circus_human on how the Silver Tree of Karakorum — a legendary 13th-century fountain — became a potent symbol, not only of the Mongol Empire’s imperial might, but also its downfall: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-khans-drinking-fountain

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

Born #onthisday in 1533, the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Aged 38 he quit public life to devote himself to leisure, reading + reflection. He began writing experimental meditations he called “essais” and thus a new literary genre was born: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-english-edition-of-michel-de-montaigne-s-essays-1603 #OTD

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

Capricorn.

From John Bevis' Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749), a watershed in the history of celestial atlases, being among the last to show allegiance to the old animated mythology of the heavens.

More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bevis-uranographia

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

To create convincing facsimiles of drawings in the early modern era required a challenging technical feat: translating drawings into print. Our latest post explores the 18th-century aquatints of Maria Catharina Prestel: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maria-catharina-prestel/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

Happy #InternationalPolarBearDay! Read Michael Engelhard's essay "Darwin's Polar Bear" looking at the often overlooked role they played in the development of evolutionary theory: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwin-s-polar-bear #polarbears

(Pictured: a circa 1808 etching by S. C. Miger.)

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Northern Lights in Zenith, by Harald Moltke, 1900.

One of the many images of Aurora Borealis collected in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”, looking at how this otherworldly phenomenon has been depicted over the centuries: https://buff.ly/38dxgft

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

One of the first English recipes for “currey the Indian way”, to be served with rice “pellow”, from the 1751 edition of Hannah Glasse's Art of Cookery. More in our latest books post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-cookery/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

On May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. @thinking4achang investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the massacre: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-tulsa-massacre-of-1921

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918) envisioned his colour categorisation system as akin to musical notation, bearing a specificity that aimed to liberate chromatic description from commercially-driven colour names: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/munsell-atlas

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890) — a meandering treatise by the occultist Hargrave Jennings offering hundreds of examples of tree worship from religious history: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phallic-tree-worship

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

“The great south sea caterpillar, transform’d into a Bath butterfly” (1795), James Gillray's caricature of English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences Joseph Banks, born #onthisday in 1743. More on the iconography of Banks here https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/joseph-banks-portraits-of-a-placid-elephant #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900 #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026

In his Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained, both published in 1883, Henry Lee narrates accounts of sea beasts to disprove them, but the pamphlets also unintentionally serve as a wonderful compendia of maritime folklore on aquatic cryptids: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-monsters-sea-fables

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 20, 2026

Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass died #onthisday in 1895, aged 77. Read his only published work of fiction "The Heroic Slave", first featured in Autographs for Freedom, an anthology of anti-slavery literature published in 1853: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/autographs-for-freedom-1853?utm_content=buffer1de80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #otd

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

The Great Day of His Wrath (ca. 1853), by John Martin, who met his maker #onthisday in 1854. More on his life and art in Max Adams' essay “John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion” — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/john-martin-and-the-theatre-of-subversion

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026

“Because so much money creeps into my sack, the whole world climbs into my hole.”

More Flemish Proverbs engraved by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568) in the post on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wierix-flemish-proverbs/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

Illustrations from Maria Sibylla Merian’s stunning Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705), a compilation of sixty elaborate engravings of insects and their floral environs which the naturalist encountered on her travels to Dutch colony Surinam: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/merian-metamorphosis/

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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Jan 31, 2026

Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? @margocsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/elephants-horses-and-the-proportions-of-paradise

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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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Illustrations from the beguiling Clavis Artis, a German alchemical manuscript which claims to hail from the 13th century and have pages made from dragon skin: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Woodcuts from Lorenz Stoer’s Geometria et Perspectiva, 1567. From Stoer's unique, image-based treatise on linear perspective — in each woodcut a complex polyhedron or combination of solids are embedded in a kind of dreamlike ruinscape. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-geometric-landscapes-of-lorenz-stoer-1567 https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1457095506191134725/photo/1

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Jan 05, 2026

As many embark boldly (and perhaps temporarily) on brand new gym memberships, here's a look at where it all started: the workout machines of the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym

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Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online

The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Dec 29, 2025

Entering the US public domain in 2026: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. More info behind window 28 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Dec 09, 2025

Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–1883). More on this unique artwork / teaching aid here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solar-system-quilt

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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 Review

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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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@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social · Nov 27, 2025

During one sleepless night in 1879, German priest Johann Schleyer felt a Divine presence telling him to create a universal language. The result was Volapük. @ArikaOkrent explores the rise + fall of the first invented language to gain widespread success: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/truth-beauty-and-volapuk

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