Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 20:07
Rendition by the Trinity Choir of James Edmeston's 1820 hymn "Savior, Breathe an Evening Blessing"
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/autumn-saviour-breathe-an-evening-blessing-1912/
Tuesday 7 November 2017 at 18:04
Pages from a remarkable book, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-model-book-of-calligraphy-1561-1596/
Saturday 28 October 2017 at 21:25
Cheat sheet to help police clerks put into practice Bertillon's method for classifying and archiving the images of repeat offenders.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/alphonse-bertillons-synoptic-table-of-physiognomic-traits-ca-1909/
Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 15:45
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition of 1863 which secured the book as a landmark in the study and representation of demons. Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart […]
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/25/defining-the-demonic/
Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 15:25
Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal, a monumental compendium of all things diabolical, was first published in 1818 to much success, it is the fabulously illustrated final edition of 1863 which secured the book as a landmark in the study and representation of demons. Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart lies an unlikely but pertinent synthesis of the Enlightenment and the occult.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/25/defining-the-demonic/
Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 15:26
Remarkable collection of sketches, drawings and watercolours left to us by Adolph Metzner, during his three years of service with the 1st German, 32nd Regiment Indiana Infantry.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-civil-war-sketches-of-adolph-metzner-1861-64/
Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 15:00
Images depicting ferruginous variation from a 19th-century geological paper, at times like some kind of geological precursor to the 50s experiments of Abstract Expressionism.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/on-the-disposition-of-iron-in-variegated-strata-1868/
Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 14:53
Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/emile-antoine-bayards-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870/
Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 14:40
Exquisite illustrations from a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables called the Panchatantra.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-from-the-lights-of-canopus-1847/
Wednesday 11 October 2017 at 17:27
Feuding impresarios, a white-but-not-white-enough elephant, and racist ads for soap — Ross Bullen on how a bizarre episode in circus history became an unlikely forum for discussing 19th-century theories of race, and inadvertently laid bare the ideological constructions at their heart.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/11/race-and-the-white-elephant-war-of-1884/