The Public Domain Review

DESIGN: Very little is known about the Dutch artist Arent van Bolten. We do know he wa…

Photographic portraits taken by Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond of patients from Surrey County Asylum in England where he worked as a psychiatrist.

When claims from Europe accused British America of being inferior on account of its colder weather, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers responded with patriotic zeal that their settlement was actually causing the climate to warm. Raphael Calel explores how, in contrast to today's common association of the U.S. with climate change skepticism, it was a very different story in the 18th century.

Introduced as “a concert hall scene by Len Spencer and Gilbert Gerard”…

A Valentine's gift to top all Valentine's gifts - the Petit Livre d’Amour (Little Book of Love) was an ornate bespoke book given by the 16th-century Lyon-born poet Pierre Salas to his then lover and future wife Marguerite Bullioud.

The emblem book of English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist George Wither (1588 - 1667). Wither was employed by a London publisher called Henry Taunton to write English verses to illustrative the beautiful allegorical plates made by Gabriel Rollenhagen and Crispin van Passe more than 20 years earlier.

Grotesques of Dutch artist Arent van Bolten, produced sometime in the early 17th century.

A Royal Society paper describing a bizarre case of a man who would periodically fall into a "profound sleep" from which no-one could wake him for a months.

The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influ…

ZENTRALBIBLIOTHEK SOLOTHURN - Patrick Borer picks out some highlights from their collection of 18th-century prints and looks at what they tell us about life in a Swiss city state.