# articles

feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-myth-of-blubber-town-an-arctic-metropolis
title: The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis
uri: The-Myth-of-Blubber-Town-an-Arctic-Metropolis
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-myth-of-blubber-town-an-arctic-metropolis
content:
<p>Though the 17th-century whaling station of Smeerenburg was in reality, at its height, just a few dwellings and structures for processing blubber, over the decades and centuries a more extravagant picture took hold — that there once had stood, defying its far-flung Arctic location, a bustling urban centre complete with bakeries, churches, gambling dens, and brothels. Matthew H. Birkhold explores the legend.</p>


title: Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)
uri: Optics-Illustrations-from-the-Physics-Textbooks-of-Amédée-Guillemin
content: <p>Illustrations from the 19th-century physics text books of Amédée Guillemin.</p>
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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/optics-illustrations-from-the-physics-textbooks-of-amedee-guillemin-1868-1882

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/optics-illustrations-from-the-physics-textbooks-of-amedee-guillemin-1868-1882


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fabres-book-of-insects-1921
title: Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)
uri: Fabre-s-Book-of-Insects-(1921)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fabres-book-of-insects-1921
content:
<p>Condensed and beautifully illustrated English version of the ten volume series on insects by Jean-Henri Fabre in which he brought out the beauty and drama in the lives of creatures that had hitherto been regarded with horror, if regarded at all.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-false-young-man-1937
title: The False Young Man (1937)
uri: The-False-Young-Man-(1937)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-false-young-man-1937
content:
<p>Recording by the legendary musicologist Alan Lomax of Abner Boggs singing a heartrending rendition of this popular murder ballad.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress
title: H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress
uri: H-G-Wells-and-the-Uncertainties-of-Progress
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress
content:
<p>In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H. G. Wells also published a steady stream of non-fiction meditations, mainly focused on themes salient to his stories: the effects of technology, human folly, and the idea of progress. As Peter J. Bowler explores, for Wells the notion of a better future was riddled with complexities.</p>


title: The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)
uri: The-Language-of-Flowers-An-Alphabet-of-Floral-Emblems-(1857)
content: <p>Ever wondered what sentiments the various flowers express? The Victorians have you covered.</p>
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-language-of-flowers-an-alphabet-of-floral-emblems-1857

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-language-of-flowers-an-alphabet-of-floral-emblems-1857


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900
title: Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)
uri: Through-the-First-Antarctic-Night-(1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900
content:
<p>Journal of one of the first to spend winter on Antarctica, including more than 2 months of total darkness.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-beast-of-gevaudan-1764-1767
title: The Beast of Gévaudan (1764–1767)
uri: The-Beast-of-Gévaudan-(1764-1767)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-beast-of-gevaudan-1764-1767
content:
<p>Illustrations of a mysterious and terrifying animal that terrorised a small region of France in the 1760s.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lustucru-from-severed-heads-to-ready-made-meals
title: Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals
uri: Lustucru-From-Severed-Heads-to-Ready-Made-Meals
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lustucru-from-severed-heads-to-ready-made-meals
content:
<p>Jé Wilson charts the migration of the Lustucru figure through the French cultural imagination — from misogynistic blacksmith bent on curbing female empowerment, to child-stealing bogeyman, to jolly purveyor of packaged pasta.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-martin-s-illustrations-of-paradise-lost-1827
title: John Martin's Illustrations of Paradise Lost (1827)
uri: John-Martin-s-Illustrations-of-Paradise-Lost-(1827)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-martin-s-illustrations-of-paradise-lost-1827
content:
<p>John Martin&#39;s epic mezzotint illustrations for John Milton&#39;s classic tale of falling from paradise.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/agnes-catlows-drops-of-water-1851
title: Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)
uri: Agnes-Catlow-s-Drops-of-Water-(1851)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/agnes-catlows-drops-of-water-1851
content:
<p>From the golden age of the microscope, a book on the animalcules that infuse stagnant water, undetectable to the naked eye.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bob-s-electrical-theatre-1906
title: Bob's Electrical Theatre (1906)
uri: Bob-s-Electrical-Theatre-(1906)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bob-s-electrical-theatre-1906
content:
<p>Very early animation in which puppets get up to various routines, including wrestling, fencing, and what appears to be a short bout of bum smacking.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/walt-whitman-in-russia-three-love-affairs
title: Walt Whitman in Russia: Three Love Affairs
uri: Walt-Whitman-in-Russia-Three-Love-Affairs
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/walt-whitman-in-russia-three-love-affairs
content:
<p>Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the 1917 Revolution — was enormous. For the 200th anniversary of Whitman&#39;s birth, Nina Murray looks at the translators through which Russians experienced his work, not only in a literary sense — through the efforts of Konstantin Balmont and Kornei Chukovsky — but also artistic, in the avant-garde printmaking of Vera Ermolaeva.</p>


title: Jan van Kessel's Signature of Caterpillars and Snakes (1657)
uri: Jan-van-Kessel-s-Signature-of-Caterpillars-and-Snakes-(1657)
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jan-van-kessel-s-signature-of-caterpillars-and-snakes-1657

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jan-van-kessel-s-signature-of-caterpillars-and-snakes-1657

content:
<p>One of history&#39;s most idiosyncratic artist signatures, composed entirely of writhing creatures.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-diary-in-a-chinese-farm-1894
title: My Diary in a Chinese Farm (1894)
uri: My-Diary-in-a-Chinese-Farm-(1894)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-diary-in-a-chinese-farm-1894
content:
<p>Feminist and novelist Alicia Little&#39;s intimate and unique insight into rural Chinese life at the end of the nineteenth century.</p>


title: Music of the Squares: David Ramsay Hay and the Reinvention of Pythagorean Aesthetics
uri: Music-of-the-Squares-David-Ramsay-Hay-and-the-Reinvention-of-Pythagor
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/music-of-the-squares-david-ramsay-hay-and-the-reinvention-of-pythagorean-aesthetics

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/music-of-the-squares-david-ramsay-hay-and-the-reinvention-of-pythagorean-aesthetics

content:
<p>Understanding the same laws to apply to both visual and aural beauty, David Ramsay Hay thought it possible not only to analyse such visual wonders as the Parthenon in terms of music theory, but also to identify their corresponding musical harmonies and melodies. Carmel Raz on the Scottish artist’s original, idiosyncratic, and occasionally bewildering aesthetics.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/karl-blossfeldt-s-urformen-der-kunst-1928
title: Karl Blossfeldt's Urformen der Kunst (1928)
uri: Karl-Blossfeldt-s-Urformen-der-Kunst-(1928)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/karl-blossfeldt-s-urformen-der-kunst-1928
content:
<p>Photographs of plants captured in extraordinary detail, as if under the microscope, frozen into new forms almost beyond recognition.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-joys-of-young-werther-1775
title: The Joys of Young Werther (1775)
uri: The-Joys-of-Young-Werther-(1775)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-joys-of-young-werther-1775
content:
<p>A year after Goethe’s tale of teenage angst and suicide came this satire giving it a Hollywood ending.</p>


title: Get Thee to a Phalanstery: or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade
uri: Get-Thee-to-a-Phalanstery-or-How-Fourier-Can-Still-Teach-Us-to-Make
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/get-thee-to-a-phalanstery-or-how-fourier-can-still-teach-us-to-make-lemonade/

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/get-thee-to-a-phalanstery-or-how-fourier-can-still-teach-us-to-make-lemonade/

content:
<p>Hot on the heels of the French revolution — by way of extravagant orgies, obscure taxonomies, and lemonade seas — Charles Fourier offered up his blueprint for a socialist utopia, and in the process also one of the most influential early critiques of capitalism. Dominic Pettman explores Fourier’s radical, bizarre, and often astonishingly modern ideas, and how they might guide us in our own troubled times.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plants-and-their-application-to-ornament-1896
title: Plants and Their Application to Ornament (1896)
uri: Plants-and-Their-Application-to-Ornament-(1896)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plants-and-their-application-to-ornament-1896
content:
<p>Eugène Grasset&#39;s wonderful pictorial summation of his key ideas about natural forms and decorative motifs.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/august-strindberg-s-celestographs-1893-4
title: August Strindberg's Celestographs (1893–4)
uri: August-Strindberg-s-Celestographs-(1893-4)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/august-strindberg-s-celestographs-1893-4
content:
<p>The Swedish playwright&#39;s attempt to capture the night sky by the use of photographic plates alone.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tales-from-the-boghouse
title: Loos, Lewdness, and Literature: Tales from the Boghouse
uri: Loos-Lewdness-and-Literature-Tales-from-the-Boghouse
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tales-from-the-boghouse
content:
<p>In the early 1730s, a mysterious editor (known only as &quot;Hurlothrumbo&quot;) committed to print a remarkable anthology: transcriptions of the graffiti from England&#39;s public latrines. For all its misogynistic and scatological tendencies, this little-known book of &quot;latrinalia&quot; offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life. Maximillian Novak explores.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-art-1460-1921
title: The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)
uri: The-Notre-Dame-Cathedral-in-Art-(1460-1921)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-notre-dame-cathedral-in-art-1460-1921
content:
<p>Highlights from the many centuries of artworks to feature the iconic building — from its illuminated punctuation of medieval skylines to grainy detailed studies at the birth of photography.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897
title: The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
uri: The-Book-of-Dreams-and-Ghosts-(1897)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897
content:
<p>Seventy eight weird happenings are contained in this volume, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bracelli-s-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624
title: Bracelli's Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624)
uri: Bracelli-s-Bizzarie-di-Varie-Figure-(1624)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bracelli-s-bizzarie-di-varie-figure-1624
content:
<p>Giovanni Battista Bracelli&#39;s extraordinary book of prescient prints that predate the Cubist movement by a good three centuries.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-khans-drinking-fountain
title: The Khan’s Drinking Fountain
uri: The-Khan-s-Drinking-Fountain
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-khans-drinking-fountain
content:
<p>Of all the things described in William of Rubruck&#39;s account of his travels through 13th-century Asia, perhaps none is so striking as the remarkably ornate fountain he encountered in the Mongol capital which — complete with silver fruit and an angelic automaton — flowed with various alcoholic drinks for the grandson of Genghis Khan and guests. Devon Field explores how this Silver Tree of Karakorum became a potent symbol, not only of the Mongol Empire&#39;s imperial might, but also its downfall.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/werner-s-nomenclature-of-colours-1814
title: Werner's Nomenclature of Colours (1814)
uri: Werner-s-Nomenclature-of-Colours-(1814)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/werner-s-nomenclature-of-colours-1814
content:
<p>Extending Werner&#39;s system, this is Patrick Syme&#39;s classic taxonomic guide to the colours of the natural world.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leave-it-to-psmith-1923
title: Leave it to Psmith (1923)
uri: Leave-it-to-Psmith-(1923)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leave-it-to-psmith-1923
content:
<p>The most popular adventure of P. G. Wodehouse&#39;s Psmith, a character based on English hotelier and impresario Rupert D&#39;Oyly Carte.</p>


title: In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger
uri: In-Praise-of-Halvings-Hidden-Histories-of-Japan-Excavated-by-Dr-D-Fe
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https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-praise-of-halvings-hidden-histories-of-japan-excavated-by-dr-d-fenberger

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-praise-of-halvings-hidden-histories-of-japan-excavated-by-dr-d-fenberger

content:
<p>Roger McDonald on the mysterious Dr Daniel Fenberger and his investigations into an archive known as “The Book of Halved Things&quot;.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/women-at-work-during-world-war-i
title: Women at Work during World War I
uri: Women-at-Work-during-World-War-I
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/women-at-work-during-world-war-i
content:
<p>Highlights from Imperial War Museum&#39;s collection of photographs showing women at work during World War I</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/vernon-lees-satan-the-waster-pacifism-and-the-avant-garde
title: Vernon Lee’s Satan the Waster: Pacifism and the Avant-Garde
uri: Vernon-Lee-s-Satan-the-Waster-Pacifism-and-the-Avant-Garde
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/vernon-lees-satan-the-waster-pacifism-and-the-avant-garde
content:
<p>Part essay collection, part shadow-play, part macabre ballet, <em>Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy</em> (1920) is one of Vernon Lee&#39;s most political and experimental works. Amanda Gagel explores this modernist masterpiece which lays siege to the patriotism plaguing Europe and offers a vision for its possible pacifist future.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-life-of-a-cat-ca-1945
title: The Private Life of a Cat (ca. 1945)
uri: The-Private-Life-of-a-Cat-(ca-1945)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-life-of-a-cat-ca-1945
content:
<p>Experimental film from Alexander Hammid (and possibly also Maya Deren) exploring the lives of their two cats (and then five kittens) with which they lived in their Greenwich Village apartment. </p>


title: Ogawa Kazumasa's Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)
uri: Ogawa-Kazumasa-s-Hand-Coloured-Photographs-of-Flowers-(1896)
content: <p>Stunning floral images produced by the Japanese photographer, printer, and publisher.</p>
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ogawa-kazumasa-s-hand-coloured-photographs-of-flowers-1896

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ogawa-kazumasa-s-hand-coloured-photographs-of-flowers-1896


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-fourth-dimension-and-the-bible-1922
title: The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)
uri: The-Fourth-Dimension-and-the-Bible-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-fourth-dimension-and-the-bible-1922
content:
<p>William Granville&#39;s attempt to explain the more mysterious aspects of the Bible through the rigours of pure mathematics.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/audubons-haiti
title: Audubon’s Haiti
uri: Audubon-s-Haiti
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/audubons-haiti
content:
<p>An entrepreneur, hunter, woodsman, scientist, and artist — John James Audubon, famous for his epic <em>The Birds of America</em>, is a figure intimately associated with a certain idea of what it means to be American. And like many of the country&#39;s icons, he was also an immigrant. Christoph Irmscher reflects on Audubon&#39;s complex relationship to his Haitian roots.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/philippine-folk-tales-1916
title: Philippine Folk Tales (1916)
uri: Philippine-Folk-Tales-(1916)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/philippine-folk-tales-1916
content:
<p>Huge variety of stories presented, sourced from both the more traditional tribes, including the headhunters of the rugged mountain regions, and from those &quot;Christianized natives&quot; whose stories bear evidence of their European influence.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hans-prinzhorn-s-artistry-of-the-mentally-ill-1922
title: Hans Prinzhorn's Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922)
uri: Hans-Prinzhorn-s-Artistry-of-the-Mentally-Ill-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hans-prinzhorn-s-artistry-of-the-mentally-ill-1922
content:
<p>Artworks from Prinzhorn&#39;s landmark text in the history of thinking about mental illness and creativity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century
title: Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)
uri: Medieval-Pattern-Poems-of-Rabanus-Maurus-(9th-Century)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century
content:
<p>Spectacular and complex pattern poems from Maurus&#39; De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross)</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
title: Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History
uri: Progress-in-Play-Board-Games-and-the-Meaning-of-History
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
content:
<p>Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shakespeare-songs-from-victor-records
title: Shakespeare Songs from Victor Records
uri: Shakespeare-Songs-from-Victor-Records
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shakespeare-songs-from-victor-records
content:
<p>Songs from Shakespeare plays as recorded by Victor in the first two decades of the twentieth century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mazes-and-labyrinths-1922
title: Mazes and Labyrinths (1922)
uri: Mazes-and-Labyrinths-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mazes-and-labyrinths-1922
content:
<p>William H. Matthews’ vast and richly illustrated encyclopaedic portrait of these mysterious phenomena across time and space.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914
title: The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914)
uri: The-Art-of-Book-Covers-(1820-1914)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914
content:
<p>Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/filling-in-the-blanks-a-prehistory-of-the-adult-coloring-craze
title: Filling in the Blanks: A Prehistory of the Adult Coloring Craze
uri: Filling-in-the-Blanks-A-Prehistory-of-the-Adult-Coloring-Craze
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/filling-in-the-blanks-a-prehistory-of-the-adult-coloring-craze
content:
<p>Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over. Many trace the origins of such publications to a wave of satirical colouring books published in the 1960s, but as Melissa N. Morris and Zach Carmichael explore, the existence of such books, and the urge to colour the printed image, goes back centuries.</p>


uri: Highlights-from-The-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art-s-release-of-more-than-30k
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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/highlights-from-the-cleveland-museum-of-art-s-release-of-more-than-30k-images-of-public-domain-works

title:
Highlights from The Cleveland Museum of Art's release of more than 30k images of public domain works

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/highlights-from-the-cleveland-museum-of-art-s-release-of-more-than-30k-images-of-public-domain-works

content:
<p>Highlights from the CMA&#39;s release of more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works — all high resolution and free from restrictions on reuse.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-library-of-the-future-a-vision-of-1983-from-1883
title: The Library of the Future: A Vision of 1983 from 1883
uri: The-Library-of-the-Future-A-Vision-of-1983-from-1883
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-library-of-the-future-a-vision-of-1983-from-1883
content:
<p>The American librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to &quot;the library of the future&quot; in 1983.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/flower-power-hamiltons-doctor-and-the-healing-power-of-nature
title: Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature
uri: Flower-Power-Hamilton-s-Doctor-and-the-Healing-Power-of-Nature
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/flower-power-hamiltons-doctor-and-the-healing-power-of-nature
content:
<p>Rebecca Rego Barry on David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and death), and creator of one of the first botanical gardens in the United States, home to thousands of species which he used for his pioneering medical research.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/robert-fludd-s-memory-tricks-1617
title: Robert Fludd's Memory Tricks (1617)
uri: Robert-Fludd-s-Memory-Tricks-(1617)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/robert-fludd-s-memory-tricks-1617
content:
<p>Robert Fludd&#39;s alphabet of correspondences, where each letter and number is paired with an object which echoes its shape.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/paterson-s-roads-1826-edition
title: Paterson's Roads (1826 edition)
uri: Paterson-s-Roads-(1826-edition)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/paterson-s-roads-1826-edition
content:
<p>Perhaps the closest thing the 19th century ever got to Google Street View, a book to guide the journeyer along the major roads of England and Wales.</p>


title: "O Uommibatto": How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
uri: O-Uommibatto-How-the-Pre-Raphaelites-Became-Obsessed-with-the-Womba
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat

content:
<p>Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company&#39;s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that &quot;most beautiful of God&#39;s creatures&quot; which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/physical-training-for-business-men-1917
title: Physical Training for Business Men (1917)
uri: Physical-Training-for-Business-Men-(1917)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/physical-training-for-business-men-1917
content:
<p>A superb series of photographs found in exercise manual by American author Harrie Irving Hancock.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/characters-and-caricaturas-by-william-hogarth-1743
title: Characters and Caricaturas by William Hogarth (1743)
uri: Characters-and-Caricaturas-by-William-Hogarth-(1743)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/characters-and-caricaturas-by-william-hogarth-1743
content:
<p>Hogarth&#39;s pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/class-of-2019
title: Class of 2019
uri: Class-of-2019
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/class-of-2019
content:
<p>Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2019 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp,  Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schneider-von-groot-s-christmas-dream-1885
title: Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream (1885)
uri: Schneider-Von-Groot-s-Christmas-Dream-(1885)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schneider-von-groot-s-christmas-dream-1885
content:
<p>Born of the temperance movement, this poem dramatises the ills of drinking schnapps, through one man’s bloody battle with thousands of intoxicated demons.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/rambling-reflections-on-summers-in-switzerland-and-sheffield
title: Rambling Reflections: On Summers in Switzerland and Sheffield
uri: Rambling-Reflections-On-Summers-in-Switzerland-and-Sheffield
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/rambling-reflections-on-summers-in-switzerland-and-sheffield
content:
<p>In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830
title: Hokusai's Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)
uri: Hokusai-s-Ghost-Stories-(ca-1830)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830
content:
<p>Hokusai&#39;s five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories].</p>


title: The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1750)
uri: The-Life-and-Adventures-of-Peter-Wilkins-a-Cornish-Man-(1750)
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-life-and-adventures-of-peter-wilkins-a-cornish-man-1750

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-life-and-adventures-of-peter-wilkins-a-cornish-man-1750

content:
<p>Proto science fiction fantasy romance of an English castaway and a remote race of flying humans.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds
title: Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds
uri: Polychrome-Woodblocks-of-Itō-Jakuchū-Birds
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds
content:
<p>Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905
title: Anecdotes of Animals (1905)
uri: Anecdotes-of-Animals-(1905)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905
content:
<p>Book featuring a hundred real or real-ish tales of ingenious, loyal or otherwise extraordinary animals.</p>


title: Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial
uri: Mesmerising-Science-The-Franklin-Commission-and-the-Modern-Clinical-T
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mesmerising-science-the-franklin-commission-and-the-modern-clinical-trial

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mesmerising-science-the-franklin-commission-and-the-modern-clinical-trial

content:
<p>Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of &quot;animal magnetism&quot; in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/landscapes-of-the-western-front-1914-1918
title: Landscapes of the Western Front, 1914–1918
uri: Landscapes-of-the-Western-Front-1914-1918
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/landscapes-of-the-western-front-1914-1918
content:
<p>Photographs for official army panoramas that offer, a century after their strategic function has passed, an unusual and haunting portrait of  WW1.</p>


title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon, illustrated by Kay Nielsen (1922 edition)
uri: East-of-the-Sun-and-West-of-the-Moon-illustrated-by-Kay-Nielsen-(1922
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/east-of-the-sun-and-west-of-the-moon-illustrated-by-kay-nielsen-1922-edition

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/east-of-the-sun-and-west-of-the-moon-illustrated-by-kay-nielsen-1922-edition

content:
<p>Book of Norwegian fairytales and one of the finest creations to emerge from the golden age of illustration.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/elephants-horses-and-the-proportions-of-paradise
title: Elephants, Horses, and the Proportions of Paradise
uri: Elephants-Horses-and-the-Proportions-of-Paradise
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/elephants-horses-and-the-proportions-of-paradise
content:
<p>Does each species have an optimal form? An ideal beauty that existed prior to the Fall? These were questions that concerned both artists and breeders alike in the 17th century. Dániel Margócsy on the search for a menagerie of perfect prelapsarian geometry.</p>


uri: Kumataro-Ito-s-Illustrations-of-Nudibranchs-from-the-USS-Albatross-Ph
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumataro-ito-s-illustrations-of-nudibranchs-from-the-uss-albatross-philippine-expedition-ca-1908

title:
Kumataro Ito's Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross' Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908)

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumataro-ito-s-illustrations-of-nudibranchs-from-the-uss-albatross-philippine-expedition-ca-1908

content:
<p>Remarkable depictions of nudibranchs from the waters of the Philippines in the early 20th century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/spells-against-the-evil-spirits-of-babylonia-1903
title: Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)
uri: Spells-Against-the-Evil-Spirits-of-Babylonia-(1903)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/spells-against-the-evil-spirits-of-babylonia-1903
content:
<p>Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against various demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts, and evil spirits.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yggdrasil-the-sacred-ash-tree-of-norse-mythology
title: Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree of Norse Mythology
uri: Yggdrasil-The-Sacred-Ash-Tree-of-Norse-Mythology
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yggdrasil-the-sacred-ash-tree-of-norse-mythology
content:
<p>Various visions of Yggdrasil, the sacred World Tree, watered by the Well of Urðr, whose roots connect to the nine worlds of Norse mythology.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-a-voice-margaret-watts-hughes-and-the-eidophone
title: Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
uri: Picturing-a-Voice-Margaret-Watts-Hughes-and-the-Eidophone
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-a-voice-margaret-watts-hughes-and-the-eidophone
content:
<p>Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought to be lost.</p>


title: The Public Domain Review's End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched!
uri: The-Public-Domain-Review-s-End-of-Year-Fundraiser-is-launched
content: <p>The Public Domain Review&#39;s End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched! </p>
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2019/12/the-public-domain-reviews-end-of-year-fundraiser-is-launched

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2019/12/the-public-domain-reviews-end-of-year-fundraiser-is-launched


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/uranias-mirror-or-a-view-of-the-heavens
title: Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)
uri: Urania-s-Mirror-or-a-View-of-the-Heavens-(circa-1825)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/uranias-mirror-or-a-view-of-the-heavens
content:
<p>Hand-coloured cards engraved by Sidney Hall representing the constellations, from Aquarius to Ursa Major.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eskimo-folktales
title: Eskimo Folktales
uri: Eskimo-Folktales
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eskimo-folktales
content:
<p>A book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sound-and-the-story-exploring-the-world-of-paradise-lost
title: The Sound and the Story: Exploring the World of *Paradise Lost*
uri: The-Sound-and-the-Story-Exploring-the-World-of-Paradise-Lost
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sound-and-the-story-exploring-the-world-of-paradise-lost
content:
<p>John Milton’s <em>Paradise Lost</em> has been many things to many people — a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity — but it is first of all a pleasure to read. Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author Philip Pullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton&#39;s masterpiece and the influence it has had on his own work.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rock-crystal-adalbert-stifter
title: Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)
uri: Adalbert-Stifter-s-Rock-Crystal-(1846)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rock-crystal-adalbert-stifter
content:
<p>A Christmas classic about two children who get lost in the blinding snow, by the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, beloved by W. G. Sebald, W. H. Auden, Hannah Arendt, and Thomas Mann.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/01/public-domain-in-2020
title: Class of 2020: New in the Public Domain today!
uri: Class-of-2020-New-in-the-Public-Domain-today
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/01/public-domain-in-2020
content:
<p>Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2020 enter the public domain in many countries around the world.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-nature-1864
title: George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)
uri: George-Perkins-Marsh-s-Man-and-Nature-(1864)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-nature-1864
content:
<p>Groundbreaking study of humanity’s affect on physical geography by the American statesman, philologist, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-w-denslow-illustrations-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-1900
title: W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
uri: W-W-Denslow-s-Illustrations-for-the-Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz-(1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-w-denslow-illustrations-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-1900
content:
<p>The strange, unhappy life of W. W. Denslow, the illustrator of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-pears-and-kings
title: Of Pears and Kings
uri: Of-Pears-and-Kings
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-pears-and-kings
content:
<p>Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a pear to criticize the corrupt and repressive policies of King Louis-Philippe. Patricia Mainardi investigates the history of this early 19th-century meme.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francois-de-nome-imaginary-ruins
title: François de Nomé’s Imaginary Ruins
uri: François-de-Nomé-s-Imaginary-Ruins
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francois-de-nome-imaginary-ruins
content:
<p>Startling Baroque paintings of imaginary ruins and other fantastic architecture by a proto-surrealist master.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/six-plays-of-the-yiddish-theatre-1916
title: Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre (1916)
uri: Six-Plays-of-the-Yiddish-Theatre-(1916)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/six-plays-of-the-yiddish-theatre-1916
content:
<p>Anthology of six plays by four leading Yiddish-language playwrights of the early 20th century, including Sholem Aleichem and Sholem Asch.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time
title: Emma Willard's Maps of Time
uri: Emma-Willard-s-Maps-of-Time
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time
content:
<p>In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. In the classroom, in the newspaper, in government reports, these concise visual representations of complicated information have changed the way we imagine our world. Susan Schulten explores the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-gould-mammals-of-australia
title: John Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845–63)
uri: John-Gould-s-Mammals-of-Australia-(1845-63)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-gould-mammals-of-australia
content:
<p>Iconic illustrations of Australian mammals from a groundbreaking multi-volume work by the English naturalist John Gould, and his wife, the artist Elizabeth Gould.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york
title: Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)
uri: Nooks-and-Corners-of-Old-New-York-(1899)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york
content:
<p>A detailed guide to the old stories and landscapes of New York City, published in the last year of the 19th century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sarah-goodridges-beauty-revealed-1828
title: Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828)
uri: Sarah-Goodridge-s-Beauty-Revealed-(1828)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sarah-goodridges-beauty-revealed-1828
content:
<p>The story of American artist Sarah Goodridge’s erotic self-portrait on a miniature ivory plate, given as a secret present to her lover, US Senator Daniel Webster.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/02/interview-with-pdr-editor-on-nightingale
title: Interview with PDR's Adam Green on Nightingale
uri: Interview-with-PDR-s-Adam-Green-on-Nightingale
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/02/interview-with-pdr-editor-on-nightingale
content:
<p>PDR Editor Adam Green talks to Jason Forrest of <em>Nightingale</em>, journal for the Data Visualization Society.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair
title: When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from *Vanity Fair*
uri: When-Dorothy-Parker-Got-Fired-from-Vanity-Fair
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair
content:
<p>Dorothy Parker’s reputation as one of the premier wits of the 20th century rests firmly on the brilliance of her writing, but the image of her as a plucky, fast-talking, independent woman of her times owes more than a little to her seat at the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Jonathan Goldman explores the beginnings of the famed New York group and how Parker&#39;s determination to speak her mind — even when it angered men in positions of power — gave her pride of place within it. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frances-power-cobbe-the-peak-in-darien-1882
title: Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)
uri: Frances-Power-Cobbe-s-The-Peak-in-Darien-The-Riddle-of-Death
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frances-power-cobbe-the-peak-in-darien-1882
content:
<p>An essay by Frances Power Cobbe, an advocate for women’s suffrage, about the consolation and possible significance of deathbed visions.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/glossary-of-censored-words-from-a-1919-book-on-love
title: Glossary of Censored Words from a 1919 Treatise on Love
uri: Glossary-of-Censored-Words-from-a-1919-Treatise-on-Love
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/glossary-of-censored-words-from-a-1919-book-on-love
content:
<p>List of Latin words used to veil words deemed too scandalous in Bernard S. Talmey’s treatise on carnal acts.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-firemans-coats-19th-century
title: Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)
uri: Japanese-Firemen-s-Coats-(19th-century)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-firemans-coats-19th-century
content:
<p>Firemen&#39;s coats in 19th-century Japan were reversible — one side was plain and the other side (worn on the inside while tackling blazes) was decorated with rich and symbolic imagery</p>


title: “A Very Speedy Way to Be Besotted”: How the English Found Cannabis
uri: A-Very-Speedy-Way-to-Be-Besotted-How-the-English-Found-Cannabis
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-very-speedy-way-to-be-besotted-how-the-english-found-cannabis

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-very-speedy-way-to-be-besotted-how-the-english-found-cannabis

content:
<p>In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of <em>bhang</em>, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/titiba-and-the-invention-of-the-unknown
title: Titiba and the Invention of the Unknown
uri: Titiba-and-the-Invention-of-the-Unknown
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/titiba-and-the-invention-of-the-unknown
content:
<p>In this lyrical essay on a difficult and painful topic, the poet Kathryn Nuernberger works to defy history’s commitment to distance, to unsettling effect.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-osteology
title: Edouard Joseph d’Alton's Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)
uri: Edouard-Joseph-d-Alton-s-Illustrations-of-Animal-Skeletons-(1821-1
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-osteology
content:
<p>Meticulous illustrations from an atlas of animal bones, including those of the tiny squirrel and the tall giraffe, the domesticated camel and the extinct giant ground sloth.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coughs-sneezes-and-jet-propelled-germs-1945
title: Coughs, Sneezes, and Jet-Propelled Germs: Two Public Service Films by Richard Massingham (1945)
uri: Coughs-Sneezes-and-Jet-Propelled-Germs-Two-Public-Service-Films-by
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coughs-sneezes-and-jet-propelled-germs-1945
content:
<p>Two PSA films featuring the multi-talented director, actor, doctor, and hypochondriac Richard Massingham. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-painters-engravers-sculptors-and-architects
title: Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853)
uri: Anecdotes-of-Painters-Engravers-Sculptors-and-Architects-and-Curios
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-painters-engravers-sculptors-and-architects
content:
<p>Three volumes of anecdotes about painters and other artists collected by an enterprising American dentist, author, and connoisseur of the arts.</p>


title: Comic Gold: The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics
uri: Comic-Gold-The-Easterner-Goes-West-in-Three-Early-American-Comics
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/comic-gold-the-easterner-goes-west-in-three-early-american-comics

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/comic-gold-the-easterner-goes-west-in-three-early-american-comics

content:
<p>The California Gold Rush transformed the landscape and population of the United States. It also introduced a new figure into American life and the American imagination — the effete Eastern urbanite who travels to the Wild West in quest of his fortune. Alex Andriesse examines how this figure fares in three mid-nineteenth-century comic books.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plague-doctor-costumes
title: Plague Doctor Costumes
uri: Plague-Doctor-Costumes
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plague-doctor-costumes
content:
<p>Depictions of plague doctors in the bird mask and floor-length cloak first developed in France during the early 17th century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/richard-deakin-flora-of-the-colosseum-of-rome
title: Richard Deakin’s Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855)
uri: Richard-Deakin-s-Flora-of-the-Colosseum-of-Rome-(1855)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/richard-deakin-flora-of-the-colosseum-of-rome
content:
<p>A thoroughly romantic amateur English botanist’s catalogue of more than 400 plants and flowers that once grew in profusion on the Roman Colosseum.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/londons-dreadful-visitation-bills-of-mortality
title: London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)
uri: London-s-Dreadful-Visitation-A-Year-of-Weekly-Death-Statistics-during
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/londons-dreadful-visitation-bills-of-mortality
content:
<p>Bills of mortality for the year 1665 in London, recording the number of plague dead, as well as other causes of mortality.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/03/free-colouring-book
title: Announcing the PDR Colouring Book! Free to Download and Print Off at Home
uri: Announcing-the-PDR-Colouring-Book-Free-to-Download-and-Print-Off-at-H
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/03/free-colouring-book
content:
<p>We made you a colouring book to help you through these strange times, featuring works by Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Virginia Frances Sterrett, and Aubrey Beardsley.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eastern-sports-and-western-bodies
title: Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The “Indian Club” in the United States
uri: Eastern-Sports-and-Western-Bodies-The-Indian-Club-in-the-United
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eastern-sports-and-western-bodies
content:
<p>Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century. Daniel Elkind explores the rise of the phenomenon in the US, and how such efforts to keep trim and build muscle were inextricably entwined with the history of colonialism, immigration, and capitalist culture.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/studies-on-twilight-phenomena-after-krakatoa
title: Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)
uri: Studies-on-Twilight-Phenomena-after-Krakatoa-(1888)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/studies-on-twilight-phenomena-after-krakatoa
content:
<p>Wonderful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche documenting the strange skies following the Krakatoa eruption.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-decameron
title: Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (ca. 1353)
uri: Giovanni-Boccaccio-s-The-Decameron-(ca-1353)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-decameron
content:
<p>A masterpiece of early Italian prose, in which 100 tales are told by a group of young people in self-quarantine during the plague of Florence in 1349.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/toulouse-lautrec-bed-series
uri: Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec-s-Bed-Series-An-Intimate-Look-Behind-the
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/toulouse-lautrec-bed-series
title:
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Bed Series: An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at a Paris Brothel (1890s)

content:
<p>A series of depictions of prostitutes, likely lesbian couples, drawn and painted in a Paris brothel during the Belle Époque.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/athanasius-kircher-study-of-the-plague
title: “Invisible Little Worms”: Athanasius Kircher’s Study of the Plague
uri: Invisible-Little-Worms-Athanasius-Kircher-s-Study-of-the-Plag
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/athanasius-kircher-study-of-the-plague
content:
<p>Living through the devastating Italian plague of 1656, the great polymath Athanasius Kircher turned his ever-enquiring mind to the then mysterious disease, becoming possibly the first to view infected blood through a microscope. While his subsequent theories of spontaneous generation and &quot;universal sperm&quot; were easily debunked, Kircher&#39;s investigation can be seen as an important early step to understanding 
contagion, and perhaps even the very first articulation of germ theory. John Glassie explores.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emotion-in-the-pigeons
title: The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons (1909–11)
uri: The-Expressions-of-Emotion-in-the-Pigeons-(1909-11)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emotion-in-the-pigeons
content:
<p>Article about the emotional life of the passenger pigeon, including musical notation of its songs, kahs, and coos.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/henrique-alvim-correa-war-of-the-worlds
title: Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)
uri: Henrique-Alvim-Corrêa-s-Illustrations-for-The-War-of-the-Worlds-(19
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/henrique-alvim-correa-war-of-the-worlds
content:
<p>Illustrations by a little-known Brazilian artist for the first French translation of H. G. Wells’ science-fiction classic.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal
title: Erbario: a 15th-century Herbal from Northern Italy
uri: Erbario-a-15th-century-Herbal-from-Northern-Italy
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/erbario-15th-century-herbal
content:
<p>Stylised herbal including plants with faces and dragon-like roots, in addition to more naturalistic depictions.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel
title: The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s *Clarel*
uri: The-Skeptical-Pilgrim-Melville-s-Clarel
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel
content:
<p>Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville&#39;s <em>Clarel</em> (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted. Jeff Wheelwright explores the knot of spiritual dilemmas played out in the poem and its roots in Melville&#39;s trip to the Middle East two decades earlier.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-english-customs
title: Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896)
uri: Old-English-Customs-Extant-at-the-Present-Time-(1896)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-english-customs
content:
<p>A surprising and vividly written late Victorian compendium of local British lore and traditions.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/last-pole
title: Last Pole
uri: Last-Pole
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/last-pole
content:
<p>Julian Chehirian goes looking for the history of telecommunication, and is left sitting in the slim shadow of a lightning rod, listening to a voice from beyond the grave.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/free-colouring-book-2
title: Volume 2 of the PDR Colouring Book! Free to Download and Print Off at Home
uri: Volume-2-of-the-PDR-Colouring-Book-Free-to-Download-and-Print-Off-at
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/05/free-colouring-book-2
content:
<p>The second of our free colouring books, including works by Walter Crane, Jessie M. King, and Arthur Rackham.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatre-of-the-hindus
title: Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus (1827)
uri: Select-Specimens-of-the-Theatre-of-the-Hindus-(1827)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatre-of-the-hindus
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/theatre-of-the-hindus/Indian_Theatrical_Group_in_Bombay_in_the_1870s.jpg" /></div><p>The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrarchs-plague
title: Petrarch's Plague: Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic
uri: Petrarch-s-Plague-Love-Death-and-Friendship-in-a-Time-of-Pandemic
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrarchs-plague
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/petrarchs-plague/petrarch-profile.jpg" /></div><p>The Italian poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch lived through the most deadly pandemic in recorded history, the Black Death of the 14th century, which saw up to 200 million die from plague across Eurasia and North Africa. Through the unique record of letters and other writings Petrarch left us, Paula Findlen explores how he chronicled, commemorated, and mourned his many loved ones who succumbed, and what he might be able to teach us today.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-parade-of-one-hundred-demons
title: Kawanable Kyōsai’s Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (1890)
uri: Kawanable-Kyōsai-s-Night-Parade-of-One-Hundred-Demons-(1890)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-parade-of-one-hundred-demons
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/night-parade-of-one-hundred-demons/100-demons-thumb-2.jpg" /></div><p>A bone-chilling book of woodblock prints, depicting a parade of demons, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, the bad boy of 19th-century Japanese art. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/juneteenth-photographs
title: Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations
uri: Early-Photographs-of-Juneteenth-Celebrations
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/juneteenth-photographs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/juneteenth-photographs/houston-2.jpg" /></div><p>Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/history-and-antiquities-of-eyam
title: William Wood’s The History and Antiquities of Eyam (1848)
uri: William-Wood-s-The-History-and-Antiquities-of-Eyam-(1848)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/history-and-antiquities-of-eyam
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/history-and-antiquities-of-eyam/8518763513_1b16988355_o.jpg" /></div><p>A romantically tinged history of the town of Eyam, which was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1666.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/elements-and-temperaments-maerten-de-vos
title: The Four Elements and Temperaments from an Album of Prints after Maerten de Vos (ca. 1583)
uri: The-Four-Elements-and-Temperaments-from-an-Album-of-Prints-after-Maert
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/elements-and-temperaments-maerten-de-vos
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/elements-and-temperaments-maerten-de-vos/elements-banner.jpg" /></div><p>Colourful prints depicting the four classical elements and the four temperaments based on paintings by the Flemish artist Maerten de Vos.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sicko-doctors
title: Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America
uri: Sicko-Doctors-Suffering-and-Sadism-in-19th-Century-America
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sicko-doctors
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/sicko-doctors/A_sadistic_tooth-drawer_frightening_his_patient_with_a_hot_c_Wellcome_V0012044-edit.jpg" /></div><p>American fiction of the 19th century often featured a ghoulish figure, the cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found both unnerving and entirely plausible. Looking at novels by Louisa May Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, and Herman Melville, Chelsea Davis dissects this curious character.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech
title: First Edition Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" (1852)
uri: First-Edition-Pamphlet-of-Frederick-Douglass-What-to-the-Slave-Is-th
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech/Frederick_Douglass_by_Samuel_J_Miller%2C_1847-52-crop.jpg" /></div><p>Douglass&#39; famous anti-slavery oration, one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/execution-by-guillotine-of-louis-xvi
title: "A Slight Freshness on the Neck": Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)
uri: A-Slight-Freshness-on-the-Neck-Prints-Depicting-the-Execution-of-Lo
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/execution-by-guillotine-of-louis-xvi
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/execution-by-guillotine-of-louis-xvi/louis-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Eighteenth-century images of the guillotining of King Louis XVI, which came to represent the changing nature of the French Revolution.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk
title: Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
uri: Ancient-Courses-Harold-Fisk-s-Meander-Maps-of-the-Mississippi-River
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/maps-of-the-lower-mississippi-harold-fisk/mississippi-meander-fisk-banner.jpg" /></div><p>Artful, detailed maps of the Mississippi’s meander belt created by US geologist and cartographer Harold Fisk.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/primary-sources
title: Primary Sources: A Natural History of the Artist's Palette
uri: Primary-Sources-A-Natural-History-of-the-Artist-s-Palette
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/primary-sources
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/primary-sources/Virgin_Mary_-_Ceiling_-_Capella_degli_Scrovegni_-_Padua_2016-edit-2.jpg" /></div><p>For all its transcendental appeals, art has always been inextricably grounded in the material realities of its production, an entwinement most evident in the intriguing history of artists&#39; colours. Focusing in on painting&#39;s primary trio of red, yellow, and blue, Philip Ball explores the science and stories behind the pigments, from the red ochre of Lascaux to Yves Klein&#39;s blue.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/08/work-with-the-public-domain-review
title: Work with The Public Domain Review
uri: Work-with-The-Public-Domain-Review
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/08/work-with-the-public-domain-review
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2020/work-with-the-public-domain-review/R-20110930-0001-edit.jpg" /></div><p>We are looking for an experienced editor, researcher, and writer to work with us.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatrum-chemicum
title: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)
uri: Theatrum-Chemicum-Britannicum-(1652)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatrum-chemicum
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/theatrum-chemicum/theatrumchemicum00ashm_0238.jpg" /></div><p>Early anthology of English alchemical texts, including by Geoffrey Chaucer among others, accompanied by charts and illustrations.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/joseph-ducreux-self-portraits
title: Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790)
uri: Joseph-Ducreux-s-Self-Portraits-(ca-1790)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/joseph-ducreux-self-portraits
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/joseph-ducreux-self-portraits/Joseph_ducreux%2C_autoritratto_dell'artista_che_prende_il_giro%2C_1793%2C_01-edit.jpg" /></div><p>Strikingly modern self-portraits by a French painter whose fixation on his own physiognomy has made his paintings readymade material for internet memes.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/roger-fenton-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death
title: Of Chickens, Eggs, and Cannonballs: Roger Fenton’s Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)
uri: Roger-Fenton-s-Valley-of-the-Shadow-of-Death-(1855)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/roger-fenton-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/roger-fenton-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/1959.611.17+-+The+Valley+of+the+Shadow+of+Death-EDIT.jpg" /></div><p>Controversial early photograph of a battle site during the Crimean War, taken by the British artist Roger Fenton.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marie-bashkirtseff
title: “I Am My Own Heroine”: How Marie Bashkirtseff Rewrote the Route to Fame
uri: I-Am-My-Own-Heroine-How-Marie-Bashkirtseff-Rewrote-the-Route-to
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marie-bashkirtseff
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/marie-bashkirtseff/marie-bashkirtseff-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, published after her death from tuberculosis aged just 25, won the aspiring painter the fame she so longed for but failed to achieve while alive. Sonia Wilson explores the importance of the journal — one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand” — and the shape it gave to female ambition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nonsenseorship
title: Nonsenseorship (1922)
uri: Nonsenseorship-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nonsenseorship
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/nonsenseorship/nonsenseorship00brourich_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A lighthearted but serious-minded anthology of American writings against censorship written during the Prohibition era in America, including pieces by Dorothy Park, Ben Hecht, and Ruth Hale.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/food-pasts-food-futures
title: Food Pasts, Food Futures: The Culinary History of COVID-19
uri: Food-Pasts-Food-Futures-The-Culinary-History-of-COVID-19
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/food-pasts-food-futures
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/food-pasts-food-futures/Triumph-Death-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A criti-fictional course-syllabus from the year 2070 — a bibliographical meteor from the other side of a “Remote Revolution”.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme
title: Der Naturen Bloeme: The Flower of Nature (ca. 1350)
uri: Der-Naturen-Bloeme-The-Flower-of-Nature-(ca-1350)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme/flower-of-nature-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Early Dutch illuminated manuscript containing imaginative images of both real and fantastic creatures.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylvestre-alphabet-album
title: Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album (1843)
uri: Joseph-Balthazar-Sylvestre-s-Alphabet-Album-(1843)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylvestre-alphabet-album
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sylvestre-alphabet-album/alphabetalbumcol00silv_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Alphabets from across the ages, drawn and collected by the French paleographer Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/more-lively-counterfaits
title: “More Lively Counterfaits”: Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science
uri: More-Lively-Counterfaits-Experimental-Imaging-at-the-Birth-of-M
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/more-lively-counterfaits
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/more-lively-counterfaits/rstl.1686.0005-colour-table-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>From infographics to digital renders, today&#39;s scientists have ready access to a wide array of techniques to help visually communicate their research. It wasn&#39;t always so. Gregorio Astengo explores the innovations employed in early issues of the Royal Society&#39;s <em>Philosophical Transactions</em>, the world&#39;s first scientific journal — new forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/korean-fairy-tales
title: William Elliot Griffis’ Korean Fairy Tales (1922)
uri: William-Elliot-Griffis-Korean-Fairy-Tales-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/korean-fairy-tales
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/korean-fairy-tales/koreanfairytales00grif_0075+thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Vivid retellings of Korean folktales by an American scholar and Protestant minister, including several stories about the sprite Tokgabi.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art
title: Kaspar Hauser’s Art (1828–1833)
uri: Kaspar-Hauser-s-Art-(1828-1833)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kaspar-hauser-art/Hauser-Water-Colour.jpg" /></div><p>Artwork by the famous foundling Kaspar Hauser, ranging from pen-and-ink self-portraits to watercolour studies of fruit and flowers.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/observations-on-street-nuisances-charles-babbage
title: Charles Babbage’s Observations on Street Nuisances (1864)
uri: Charles-Babbage-s-Observations-on-Street-Nuisances-(1864)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/observations-on-street-nuisances-charles-babbage
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/observations-on-street-nuisances-charles-babbage/Ff105115.jpg" /></div><p>A chapter from Charles Babbage’s <em>The Life of a Philosopher</em> railing against noise pollution in 19th-century London.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan
title: Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era
uri: Herbert-Geddes-Life-in-Japan-Collection-Hand-Coloured-Glass
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan/geddes-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Stunning hand-colored transparencies of life in Meiji-era Japan, from the Canadian businessman Herbert Geddes’ collection, acquired in Yokohama from 1908–1918.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland
title: Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland
uri: Fungi-Folklore-and-Fairyland
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland/The_fly_agaric_fungus_(Amanita_muscaria)%3B_two_fruiting_bodie_Wellcome_V0043330+copy.jpg" /></div><p>From fairy-rings to Lewis Carroll&#39;s <em>Alice</em>, mushrooms have long been entwined with the supernatural in art and literature. What might this say about past knowledge of hallucinogenic fungi? Mike Jay looks at early reports of mushroom-induced trips and how one species in particular became established as a stock motif of Victorian fairyland.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/filippo-buonanni-harmonic-cabinet
title: Filippo Buonanni's Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
uri: Filippo-Buonanni-s-Harmonic-Cabinet-(1722)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/filippo-buonanni-harmonic-cabinet
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/filippo-buonanni-harmonic-cabinet/gabinetto-banner.jpg" /></div><p>Engravings from an ambitious and beautiful attempt to catalogue, for the first time, the musical instruments of the world.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-syntax
title: The Tours of Dr Syntax (1809–1821)
uri: The-Tours-of-Dr-Syntax-(1809-1821)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-syntax
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dr-syntax/syntax+featured.jpeg" /></div><p>Three books combining pictures and verse about an Anglican cleric in search of the perfectly picturesque.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sadakichi-hartmann-conversations-with-walt-whitman
title: Sadakichi Hartmann’s Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895)
uri: Sadakichi-Hartmann-s-Conversations-with-Walt-Whitman-(1895)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sadakichi-hartmann-conversations-with-walt-whitman
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sadakichi-hartmann-conversations-with-walt-whitman/Walt-Whitman-sadakichi-hartmann-2.jpg" /></div><p>Short pamphlet of conversations with Whitman in his last years by the art critic and poet Sadakichi Hartmann.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens
title: The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
uri: The-Uncertain-Heavens-Christiaan-Huygens-Ideas-of-Extraterrestrial
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-uncertain-heavens/Entretiens_sur_la_pluralite-crop.jpg" /></div><p>During the 17th century, as knowledge of the Universe and its contents increased, so did speculation about life on other planets. One such source, as Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores, was Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens, whose earlier work on probability paved the way for his very modern evaluation of what alien life might look like.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote
title: Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)
uri: Why-Women-Should-Not-Vote-(1917)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/why-women-should-not-vote/why-women-should-not-vote-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-of-the-living-dead
title: George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)
uri: George-A-Romero-s-Night-of-the-Living-Dead-(1968)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/night-of-the-living-dead
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/night-of-the-living-dead/night-of-the-living-dead-1968-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Introducing the historical zombie, situating it in current academic discourses, and considering the cultural moment of the film’s release.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde
title: The Sorceress by Jan van de Velde II (1626)
uri: The-Sorceress-by-Jan-van-de-Velde-II-(1626)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde/the-sorceress-jan-van-de-velde-1.jpg" /></div><p>Remarkable engraving of a sorceress mid-conjure, with a motley crew of demonic figures.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/reverse-of-a-framed-painting
uri: The-Reverse-of-a-Framed-Painting-and-other-Trompe-l-oeil-by-Cornelis
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/reverse-of-a-framed-painting
title:
The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L'oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/reverse-of-a-framed-painting/reverse-of-a-framed-painting.jpg" /></div><p>On one of the most striking and intriguing creations by a Flemish master of trompe l’oeil paintings.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/11/new-batch-of-prints-and-introducing-themed-sets
title: A New Batch of Prints and Introducing Themed Sets
uri: A-New-Batch-of-Prints-and-Introducing-Themed-Sets
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/11/new-batch-of-prints-and-introducing-themed-sets
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//shop/nov-2020-prints-new-00013.jpg" /></div><p>Introducing updates to the prints shop, including new ways to explore the collection.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-orkney-finnmen-legends
title: The Orkney Finnmen Legends: From Early Modern Science to Modern Myth
uri: The-Orkney-Finnmen-Legends-From-Early-Modern-Science-to-Modern-Myth
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-orkney-finnmen-legends
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-orkney-finnmen-legends/orkney-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>At the end of the 17th century there appeared the first noting of a mysterious kayak-paddling “Finnman” seen in Orkney waters. Jonathan Westaway explores the subsequent explanations and how early modern science&#39;s fascination with unfamiliar objects, and the “out-of-place” in general, helped conjure the idea of an Inuit presence in the region and, in turn, a new chapter of Scottish folklore.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2020
title: Last Order Dates for Christmas 2020
uri: Last-Order-Dates-for-Christmas-2020
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2020
content:
<p>A little bit earlier this year (due to you know what), below are the recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th. Please do get your orders in <em>early</em>! And remember all proceeds go directly back into supporting the project.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/greek-masquerade
title: Greek Masquerade (1771)
uri: Greek-Masquerade-(1771)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/greek-masquerade
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/greek-masquerade/young-monk-small.jpg" /></div><p>The <em>goût grec</em> style in extremis, as architecture surrounds the body in this series of fantastical and playful prints.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-original-theory-or-new-hypothesis-of-the-universe
title: Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
uri: Thomas-Wright-s-An-Original-Theory-or-New-Hypothesis-of-the-Universe-(
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-original-theory-or-new-hypothesis-of-the-universe
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/an-original-theory-or-new-hypothesis-of-the-universe/wright-universe-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Wright’s theory, illustrated by 32 plates, mixes influential discoveries about the milky way with fantastical visions of divine creation.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/temperance-stories-and-sketches
title: Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879)
uri: Temperance-Stories-and-Sketches-(1879)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/temperance-stories-and-sketches
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/temperance-stories-and-sketches/temperancestorie00cars_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Temperance movement book full of tales, poems, and illustrations warning readers against the perils of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions
title: Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton’s American Subversions
uri: Lord-of-Misrule-Thomas-Morton-s-American-Subversions
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions/maypole.jpeg" /></div><p>When we think of early New England, we tend to picture stern-faced Puritans and black-hatted Pilgrims, but in the same decade that these more famous settlers arrived, a man called Thomas Morton founded a very different kind of colony — a neo-pagan experiment he named Merrymount. Ed Simon explores the colony’s brief existence and the alternate vision of America it represents.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez
title: En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez
uri: En-Pleine-Mer-The-Underwater-Landscapes-of-Eugen-von-Ransonnet-Villez
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez/Eugen-von-Ransonnet-Villez-Underwater+oilpainting-before-1892.jpg" /></div><p>Images from colour pencil drawings made while the artist was submerged in a diving bell.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser
title: The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
uri: The-Launch-of-Our-End-of-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Communication.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/folk-stories-from-southern-nigeria
title: Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (1913)
uri: Ikom-Folk-Stories-from-Southern-Nigeria-(1913)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/folk-stories-from-southern-nigeria
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/folk-stories-from-southern-nigeria/ikomfolkstoriesf00dayr_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Mushroom babies, heroic tortoises, death, burial, power struggles: folk tales from southern Nigeria as filtered through the sensibility of a colonial administrator.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pedro-de-rojas-don-quixote-in-the-20th-century
title: Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905)
uri: Don-Quixote-in-the-20th-Century-(ca-1905)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pedro-de-rojas-don-quixote-in-the-20th-century
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/pedro-de-rojas-don-quixote-in-the-20th-century/don-quixote-in-20th-century-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Colorful chromolithograph postcards depicting Don Quixote in twentieth-century scenes.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/revolutionary-colossus
title: The Revolutionary Colossus
uri: The-Revolutionary-Colossus
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/revolutionary-colossus
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/revolutionary-colossus/Destruction_of_the_French_collossus-feature.jpg" /></div><p>As the French Revolution entered its most radical years, there emerged in print a recurring figure, the collective power of the people expressed as a single gigantic body — a king-eating Colossus. Samantha Wesner traces the lineage of this <em>nouveau</em> Hercules, from Erasmus Darwin’s Bastille-breaking giant to a latter incarnation in Mary Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em>.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/01/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-public-domain-review
title: It’s Our 10th Birthday! Celebrating a Decade of The Public Domain Review
uri: It-s-Our-10th-Birthday-Celebrating-a-Decade-of-The-Public-Domain-Re
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/01/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-public-domain-review
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-public-domain-review/Montgolfiere_1783-edit.jpg" /></div><p>Its our big birthday! We celebrate with a year-by-year glance back over the last decade of the project.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-hogarth-satire-on-false-perspective
title: William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)
uri: William-Hogarth-s-Satire-on-False-Perspective-(1754)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-hogarth-satire-on-false-perspective
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/william-hogarth-satire-on-false-perspective/hogarth-perspective-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>With characteristic skill and wit, Hogarth’s frontispiece for Joshua Kirby’s Method of Perspective shows the pitfalls of getting it wrong.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/twenty-eight-years-of-co-partnership-at-guise
title: Twenty-eight Years of Co-partnership at Guise (1908)
uri: Twenty-eight-Years-of-Co-partnership-at-Guise-(1908)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/twenty-eight-years-of-co-partnership-at-guise
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/twenty-eight-years-of-co-partnership-at-guise/twentyeightyears00dalluoft_thumb2.jpg" /></div><p>An admiring account of Jean-Baptiste Godin’s factory, social housing, and workers’ co-operative in the French town of Guise.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rogues-a-study-of-characters-samuel-g-szabo
title: Samuel G. Szábo’s Rogues, A Study of Characters (1857)
uri: Samuel-G-Szábo-s-Rogues-A-Study-of-Characters-(1857)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rogues-a-study-of-characters-samuel-g-szabo
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/rogues-a-study-of-characters-samuel-g-szabo/rogues-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An artful rogues’ gallery compiled by a mysterious Hungarian photographer during his decade in America.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling
title: The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships
uri: The-Art-of-Whaling-Illustrations-from-the-Logbooks-of-Nantucket-Whale
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-whaling
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-art-of-whaling/whale-illustrations-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of life. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too. Jessica Boyall explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-shanties
title: The Music of the Waters: A Collection of Sea Shanties (1888)
uri: The-Music-of-the-Waters-A-Collection-of-Sea-Shanties-(1888)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-shanties
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sea-shanties/Capstan-edit.jpg" /></div><p>Compilation of a huge range of shanties from around the world, including music, words, and ethnographic description of their provenance and performance.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/illustrations-of-the-nervous-system-golgi-and-cajal
title: Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
uri: Early-Illustrations-of-the-Nervous-System-by-Camillo-Golgi-and-Santiag
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/illustrations-of-the-nervous-system-golgi-and-cajal
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/illustrations-of-the-nervous-system-golgi-and-cajal/golgi-olfactory-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Beautiful diagrams exploring the nervous system from two pioneers in the field.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/serviette-sculptures-the-forgotten-art-of-napkin-folding
title: Serviette Sculptures: Mattia Giegher’s Treatise on Napkin Folding (1629)
uri: Serviette-Sculptures-Mattia-Giegher-s-Treatise-on-Napkin-Folding-(1
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/serviette-sculptures-the-forgotten-art-of-napkin-folding
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/serviette-sculptures-the-forgotten-art-of-napkin-folding/5186877-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>17th-century treatise, the first book of its kind, containing a bestiary of linen creations, mythical creatures and architectural abstractions, folded out of the common napkin. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/postures-of-transport
title: Postures of Transport: Sex, God, and Rocking Chairs
uri: Postures-of-Transport-Sex-God-and-Rocking-Chairs
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/postures-of-transport
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/postures-of-transport/postures-of-transport-thumb-women.jpg" /></div><p>What if chairs had the ability to shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic? In an essay about the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century, Hunter Dukes discovers how simple furniture technologies allowed armchair travelers to explore worlds beyond their own.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baron-munchausens-dream
title: Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911)
uri: Baron-Munchausen-s-Dream-(1911)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baron-munchausens-dream
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/baron-munchausens-dream/baron-munchhausen.jpg" /></div><p>Méliès shows customary boundless imagination in this short film depicting the pleasures and terrors that plague the drunken baron.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/french-silk-sample-book
title: French Silk Sample Book (ca. 1900)
uri: French-Silk-Sample-Book-(ca-1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/french-silk-sample-book
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/french-silk-sample-book/frenchsilksample00unse_featured.jpg" /></div><p>A sample book of gorgeous French silk in various patterns, from around 1900, from the Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/filippo-morghen-fantastical-visions-of-lunar-life
title: Filippo Morghen's Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)
uri: Filippo-Morghen-s-Fantastical-Visions-of-Lunar-Life-(1776)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/filippo-morghen-fantastical-visions-of-lunar-life
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/filippo-morghen-fantastical-visions-of-lunar-life/morghen-featured.jpg" /></div><p>The Florentine engraver imagines an expedition to a lunar landscape peopled by New World figures in fantastical, size-shifting scenarios. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-america-1895
title: <i>Black America</i>, 1895
uri: Black-America-1895
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-america-1895
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/black-america-1895/black-america-featured.jpg" /></div><p>During the summer of 1895, in a Brooklyn park, there was a cotton plantation complete with five hundred Black workers reenacting slavery. Dorothy Berry uncovers the bizarre and complex history of <em>Black America</em>, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/napoleon-bonaparte-death-mask
title: The Story of Napoleon's Death Mask (1915)
uri: The-Story-of-Napoleon-s-Death-Mask-(1915)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/napoleon-bonaparte-death-mask
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/napoleon-bonaparte-death-mask/storyofnapoleons00wats-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Engorged with <em>bons mots</em> and brimming with pith, this investigation, in its author’s own words, moves between “the hot sword-play of polemic” and “the chill spade-work of research”. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/adam-wirsing-marmora
title: A Book of Stone: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776)
uri: A-Book-of-Stone-Adam-Wirsing-s-Marmora-(1776)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/adam-wirsing-marmora
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/adam-wirsing-marmora/marble-feature-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Composed in numbered squares, six to a page, these images are colourful and complex odes to marble. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost
title: The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)
uri: The-Universe-as-Pictured-in-Milton-s-Paradise-Lost-(1915)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost/universepictures00warruoft-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In his final work, William Fairfield Warren set out to become a cartographer of the poetic imagination, mapping Milton’s cosmos in <em>Paradise Lost</em>. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/propagating-propaganda
title: Propagating Propaganda: Franklin Barrett’s Red, White, and Blue Liberty Bond Carp
uri: Propagating-Propaganda-Franklin-Barrett-s-Red-White-and-Blue-Libe
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/propagating-propaganda
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/propagating-propaganda/liberty-bond-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Toward the end of World War I, as the US peddled hard its Liberty Bonds for the war effort, goldfish dealer Franklin Barrett bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism. Laurel Waycott uncovers the story of this “Liberty Bond Fish” and the wider use of animals in propaganda of the time.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kalevala
title: English Translation of Finland's Epic Poem, The Kalevala (1898)
uri: English-Translation-of-Finland-s-Epic-Poem-The-Kalevala-(1898)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kalevala
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kalevala/kalevala-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>John Martin Crawford&#39;s translation of a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/agostino-ramelli-theatre-of-machines
title: Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)
uri: Agostino-Ramelli-s-Theatre-of-Machines-(1588)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/agostino-ramelli-theatre-of-machines
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/agostino-ramelli-theatre-of-machines/ramelli-featured.jpg" /></div><p>Images from Agostino Ramelli&#39;s Diverse and Artificial Machines, which despite their detail obscure as much as they reveal. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/04/affinities-a-book-of-images
uri: Announcing-the-Launch-of-Affinities-a-Very-Special-Book-of-Images-t
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/04/affinities-a-book-of-images
title:
Announcing the Launch of *Affinities*, a Very Special Book of Images to Celebrate our 10th Anniversary.

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/affinities-a-book-of-images/pdr_adam_W3_nograd-1200.jpg" /></div><p>Gathering over 500 prints, paintings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, doodles, and everything in between, <em>Affinities</em> is a carefully curated journey exploring echoes and connections across more than two millennia of visual culture. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/charles-baudelaire-and-the-convalescent-flaneur
title: “Fevers of Curiosity”: Charles Baudelaire and the Convalescent *Flâneur*
uri: Fevers-of-Curiosity-Charles-Baudelaire-and-the-Convalescent-Fl
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/charles-baudelaire-and-the-convalescent-flaneur
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/charles-baudelaire-and-the-convalescent-flaneur/baudelaire-featured.jpg" /></div><p>This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s birth, the French poet famous for his descriptions of the <em>flâneur</em>: a man of the crowd, who thrived in the metropolis’ multitude. Following Baudelaire through 19th-century Paris, Matthew Beaumont discovers a parallel archetype — the convalescent hero of modernity — who emerges from the sickbed into city streets with a feverish curiosity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika
title: Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th century)
uri: Images-of-Hatha-Yoga-from-the-Joga-Pradīpikā-(19th-century)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hatha-yoga-images-from-the-joga-pradipika/yoga-poses-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The nineteenth-century images collected here concern <em>hatha yoga</em>, the yoga of physical discipline.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/albert-robida-la-vie-electrique
title: The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s *La vie électrique* (1890)
uri: The-Future-Imagined-in-Albert-Robida-s-La-vie-électrique-(1890)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/albert-robida-la-vie-electrique
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/albert-robida-la-vie-electrique/levingtimesiclel00robi_0177-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Inspired by Jules Verne’s scientific novels, <em>The electric life</em> has garnered retrospective praise for successfully anticipating much of modern life. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
title: William Blake’s *The Gates of Paradise* (1787-93)
uri: William-Blake-s-The-Gates-of-Paradise-(1787-93)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/william-blakes-the-gates-of-paradise/blake-gates-of-paradise-featured.jpg" /></div><p>Angels emerge from avian eggs and a figure climbs a ladder to the moon, in Blake&#39;s unique take on the emblems tradition.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
title: “The Mark of the Beast”: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement
uri: The-Mark-of-the-Beast-Victorian-Britain-s-Anti-Vaxxer-Movemen
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
content:
<p>Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. Introducing us to the original anti-vaxxers, Erica X Eisen explores the “vacca” in the first-ever vaccine: its bovine origins and the widespread worry that immunity came with beastly side effects.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-georgian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
title: “The Mark of the Beast”: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement
uri: The-Mark-of-the-Beast-Georgian-Britain-s-Anti-Vaxxer-Movement
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-georgian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement/the-cow-pock-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. Introducing us to the original anti-vaxxers, Erica X Eisen explores the “vacca” in the first-ever vaccine: its bovine origins and the widespread worry that immunity came with beastly side effects.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-history-the-polish-system
title: Visualizing History: The Polish System
uri: Visualizing-History-The-Polish-System
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-history-the-polish-system
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/visualizing-history-the-polish-system/polish-system-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>For the Polish educator Antoni Jażwiński, history was best represented by an abstract grid.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baldassare-castiglione-the-book-of-the-courtier
title: On *Sprezzatura*: Baldassare Castiglione’s *The Book of the Courtier* (1528)
uri: On-Sprezzatura-Baldassare-Castiglione-s-The-Book-of-the-Courtier
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baldassare-castiglione-the-book-of-the-courtier
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/baldassare-castiglione-the-book-of-the-courtier/bookofcourtier1902cast_portrait.jpg" /></div><p>This is a paradox in the cocktail of qualities that define sprezzatura — the achievement of eloquence and honesty through deception and concealment.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/odilon-redon-a-edgar-poe
title: A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s *À Edgar Poe* (1882)
uri: A-Remembrance-of-Aerial-Forms-Odilon-Redon-s-À-Edgar-Poe-(1882)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/odilon-redon-a-edgar-poe
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/odilon-redon-a-edgar-poe/ma-117159-featured.jpg" /></div><p>A series of six lithographic dreamworlds inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-making-debts
title: The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
uri: The-Art-of-Making-Debts-Accounting-for-an-Obsession-in-19th-Century-F
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-art-of-making-debts
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-art-of-making-debts/Cre%CC%81dit_est_mort%2C_les_mauvais_Payeurs_l'ont_tue%CC%81_(titel_op_object)%2C_RP-P-OB-201.947-edit-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Being in debt was once an artful <em>promenade</em> — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and deceit. Erika Vause explores a forgotten financial history: the pervasive humor that once accompanied the literature and visual culture of debt.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-migraines
title: Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata
uri: Visualizing-Migraines-The-Attempts-of-Hubert-Airy-and-Others-to-Depic
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualizing-migraines
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/visualising-migraines/Airy-migraine.jpg" /></div><p>In a 1870 paper, Hubert Airy became the first to attempt to explicitly visualise the scintillating scotomata of his migraine.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-archaeology-of-surf
title: An Archaeology of Surf
uri: An-Archaeology-of-Surf
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-archaeology-of-surf
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/an-archaeology-of-surf/A_Sea_Of_Steps_--_Wells_Cathedral_LACMA_M.2008.40.736_(1_of_3).jpg" /></div><p>At the intersection of surfing and medieval cathedrals, from the contents of a suitcase, Melissa McCarthy stages a plot that walks its way across paranoia, language, and the pursuit of knowledge.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-woman-and-the-car
title: On the Road: *The Woman and the Car* (1909)
uri: On-the-Road-The-Woman-and-the-Car-(1909)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-woman-and-the-car
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-woman-and-the-car/120928_0009-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Dorothy Levitt’s practical, how-to guide for those who wanted to take to the roads, but did not quite know how.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/05/a-deeper-dive-into-affinities
title: A Deeper Dive into *Affinities*, Our New Book of Images
uri: A-Deeper-Dive-into-Affinities-Our-New-Book-of-Images
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/05/a-deeper-dive-into-affinities
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/a-deeper-dive-into-affinities/affinities-mockup-together+copy.jpg" /></div><p>Editor Adam Green answers some questions about Affinities, offering a sneak peek at its inner workings and the idea behind it.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zodiac-man
title: The Zodiac Man
uri: The-Zodiac-Man
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zodiac-man
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/zodiac-man/zodiac-man-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In zodiac man illustrations, astrological signs appear alongside the parts of the body they were thought to influence.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-quin-historical-atlas
title: Clouds of Unknowing: Edward Quin’s *Historical Atlas* (1830)
uri: Clouds-of-Unknowing-Edward-Quin-s-Historical-Atlas-(1830)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-quin-historical-atlas
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/edward-quin-historical-atlas/quin-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Unique series of maps showing a particular empire’s knowledge revealed through a mass of broiling black cloud.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-tulsa-massacre-of-1921
title: Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
uri: Photographing-the-Tulsa-Massacre-of-1921
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-tulsa-massacre-of-1921
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/tulsa-1921/Tulsa-1921-booker-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of this massacre and the resilience of Black Wall Street’s residents. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/martian-canal-maps
title: Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals
uri: Alien-Aqueducts-The-Maps-of-Martian-Canals
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/martian-canal-maps
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/martian-canal-maps/marsasabodeoflif00lowe_0192-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Observing the visible features of Martian landscapes, Giovanni Schiaparelli began seeing things almost immediately — shapes that resembled dim lines, crisscrossing the extraterrestrial desert. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-21
title: The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
uri: The-Launch-of-Our-Mid-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-21
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Play.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylva-britannica
title: Joseph George Strutt's *Sylva Britannica* (1822/1830)
uri: Joseph-George-Strutt-s-Sylva-Britannica-(1822-1830)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylva-britannica
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sylva-britannica/the-great-tortworth-chestnut.JPG" /></div><p>An impressive compendium of British trees in etchings and words.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zuni-masks
title: The Masks of the Zuni (1904)
uri: The-Masks-of-the-Zuni-(1904)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zuni-masks
content:
<p>The masks gathered here come from a report by Matilda Coxe Stevenson, one of the most dedicated ethnographers of Zuni at the turn of the 20th century. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/still-farther-south
title: Still Farther South: Poe and *Pym*’s Suggestive Symmetries
uri: Still-Farther-South-Poe-and-Pym-s-Suggestive-Symmetries
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/still-farther-south
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/still-farther-south/pym-featured.jpg" /></div><p>In 1838, as the United States began its Exploring Expedition to the South Seas, Edgar Allan Poe published a novel that masqueraded as a travelogue. John Tresch guides us along this strange trip southward, following the pull of its unfathomable mysteries. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound
title: Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
uri: Lewis-Carroll-s-Illustrations-for-Alice-s-Adventures-Under-Grou
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/carroll-illustrations-for-alice-undergound/Lewis-Carroll-Alice-Under-Ground-17-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In this early version of <em>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</em>, we find illustrations drawn by the author Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/denis-diderot-letter-on-the-blind
title: Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s *Letter on the Blind* (1749)
uri: Seeking-Enlightenment-Denis-Diderot-s-Letter-on-the-Blind-(1749)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/denis-diderot-letter-on-the-blind
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/denis-diderot-letter-on-the-blind/saunderson-blind-diderot.jpg" /></div><p>During the Enlightenment, when Diderot wrote his letter, blindness had become a topic of intense philosophical debate.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues
title: Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
uri: Flowers-of-Fire-Illustrations-from-Japanese-Fireworks-Catalogues-(ca
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/japanese-fireworks-catalogues/fireworks-comp-small.jpg" /></div><p>The illustrations from catalogues for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, published by C. T. Brock and Company, the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the United Kingdom.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reading-like-a-roman
title: Reading Like a Roman: *Vergilius Vaticanus* and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture
uri: Reading-Like-a-Roman-Vergilius-Vaticanus-and-the-Puzzle-of-Antiquar
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reading-like-a-roman
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/reading-like-a-roman/vergilius-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>How did Virgil’s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etidorhpa
title: John Uri Lloyd’s *Etidorhpa* (1895)
uri: John-Uri-Lloyd-s-Etidorhpa-(1895)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etidorhpa
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/etidorhpa/etidorhpaorendof00lloy_0268-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Sci-fi novel of psychonautical learning long before Albert Hofmann discovered LSD.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solid-objects
title: Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings
uri: Solid-Objects-16th-Century-Geometric-and-Perspective-Drawings
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solid-objects
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/solid-objects/geometrischer-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>These complex geometrical figures and perspective drawings are preserved in a little-known manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watson-and-the-shark
title: John Singleton Copley’s *Watson and the Shark* (1778)
uri: John-Singleton-Copley-s-Watson-and-the-Shark-(1778)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/watson-and-the-shark
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/watson-and-the-shark/watson-and-the-shark.jpeg" /></div><p>American-born Copley made a splash at London’s Royal Academy with this depiction of Brook Watson’s dramatic rescue from Havana harbour in 1749.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-scent
title: Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale
uri: Picturing-Scent-The-Tale-of-a-Beached-Whale
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-scent
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/picturing-scent/picturing-scent-featured-2.jpg" /></div><p>What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/orchid-hunter
title: Albert Millican’s *Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter* (1891)
uri: Albert-Millican-s-Travels-and-Adventures-of-an-Orchid-Hunter-(1891
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/orchid-hunter
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/orchid-hunter/travelsadventure00mill_0010.jpeg" /></div><p>Millican&#39;s memoir of travels and exploits in the budding flower industry. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/astronomia
title: Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)
uri: Astronomia-Playing-Cards-(1829)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/astronomia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/astronomia/zodiac-comp-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Transcending the earthly concerns of betting and regal motifs, this pack of cards focuses exclusively on the heavens.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/porch-memories
title: Porch Memories
uri: Porch-Memories
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/porch-memories
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/porch-memories/image002.jpg" /></div><p>In this affecting photo-essay, Federica Soletta invites us to sit with her awhile on the American porch.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/martin-gerlach-festons
title: Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)
uri: Festooned-Martin-Gerlach-s-Decorative-Groupings-(1897)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/martin-gerlach-festons
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/martin-gerlach-festons/festons-feature.jpg" /></div><p>At once a reference manual to inspire artists and artisans, and a series of proto-modernist photographic montages anticipating the work of Joseph Cornell.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-spiralist
title: The Spiralist
uri: The-Spiralist
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-spiralist
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-spiralist/spiralist-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Why do helical seashells resemble spiralling galaxies and the human heart? Kevin Dann leads us into the gyre of James Bell Pettigrew’s <i>Design in Nature</i> (1908), a provocative and forgotten exploration of the world’s archetypal whorl.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-on-artificial-limbs
title: *A Treatise on Artificial Limbs* (1899)
uri: A-Treatise-on-Artificial-Limbs-(1899)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-on-artificial-limbs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/treatise-on-artificial-limbs/treatiseonartif00mark_feature.jpeg" /></div><p>An attempt to parallel every possible case of amputation, allowing individuals to find a case identical to their own. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alphonse-allais-april-fools-album
title: Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ *April Fools Album* (1897)
uri: Figure-Ground-Alphonse-Allais-April-Fools-Album-(1897)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alphonse-allais-april-fools-album
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/alphonse-allais-april-fools-album/Allais_Des_souteneurs_boivent_de_l_absinthe.jpg" /></div><p>Long before Rauchenberg, Cage, or Malevich, Allais anticipated many of the innovations and experiments that would occupy 20th-century artists.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dante-divine-comedy-in-art
title: 700 Years of Dante’s *Divine Comedy* in Art
uri: 700-Years-of-Dante-s-Divine-Comedy-in-Art
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dante-divine-comedy-in-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dante-divine-comedy-in-art/dante-commedia-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>To celebrate Dante&#39;s 700th anniversary, a look at how illustrators have tackled his most enduring work.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/circassian-beauties
title: Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
uri: Circassian-Beauty-in-the-American-Sideshow
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/circassian-beauties
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/circassian-beauties/circassian-beauty-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Among the “human curiosities” in P. T. Barnum’s American Museum was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, a figure marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exoticised other. Betsy Golden Kellem investigates the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-human-voice
title: The Human Voice (1921)
uri: The-Human-Voice-(1921)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-human-voice
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-human-voice/the-human-voice.jpg" /></div><p>Educational film from Bray studios all about that “marvellous sound producing instrument, the voice box”.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bottleman
title: A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
uri: A-Modest-Apology-for-the-Man-in-the-Bottle-(1749)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bottleman
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/bottleman/bottleman-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A confession from the supposed man who caused a riot at the Haymarket Theatre in 1749, when he failed to shrink himself and crawl inside of a bottle.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schmidt-diatoms
title: Adolf Schmidt’s *Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde* (1890)
uri: Adolf-Schmidt-s-Atlas-der-Diatomaceenkunde-(1890)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schmidt-diatoms
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/schmidt-diatoms/Schmidt-Diatom-feature.jpg" /></div><p>A 19th-century catalogue dedicated to showcasing diatoms (a type of unicellular microalgae) in all their intricate glory. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mermaids-and-tritons-in-the-age-of-reason
title: Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason
uri: Mermaids-and-Tritons-in-the-Age-of-Reason
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mermaids-and-tritons-in-the-age-of-reason
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/mermaids-and-tritons/mermaid-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>For much of the eighteenth century, Western intellectuals chased after tritons and mermaids. Vaughn Scribner follows the hunt, revealing how humanity’s supposed aquatic ancestors became wondrous screens on which to project theories of geographical, racial, and taxonomical difference. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/heart-serpent
title: A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s *A Most Certaine and True Relation* (1639)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/heart-serpent
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/heart-serpent/heart-serpent-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>This 17th-century medical treatise still puzzles researchers centuries after it was written. Was it a serpent in John Pennant’s heart? Or something more mundane? </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mont-blanc-ascent
title: *The Ascent of Mont-Blanc* (ca. 1855)
uri: The-Ascent-of-Mont-Blanc-(ca-1855)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mont-blanc-ascent
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/mont-blanc-ascent/mont-blanc-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>John MacGregor’s four “views” of Mont Blanc, printed in color by George Baxter, reveal a different side of the mountain when compared to well-known Romantic depictions.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlas-des-champignons
title: Lithographs from M. E. Descourtilz’s *Atlas des Champignons* (1827)
uri: Lithographs-from-M-E-Descourtilz-s-Atlas-des-Champignons-(1827)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlas-des-champignons
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/atlas-des-champignons/deschampignonscatladesc_0011-featured.jpeg" /></div><p>Set of prints which sort mushrooms found in France and elsewhere into three classes: edible, suspect, and poisonous.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dust-that-measures-all-our-time
title: The Dust That Measures All Our Time
uri: The-Dust-That-Measures-All-Our-Time
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dust-that-measures-all-our-time
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-dust-that-measures-all-our-time/sand-feature.jpg" /></div><p>From the mythical Sandman, who participates in dream and vision, to an irritating grain lodged in the beachgoer’s eye, sand harbours unappreciated power, however mundane. Steven Connor celebrates this “most untrustworthy” type of matter. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zanzibar-tales
title: *Zanzibar Tales* (1901)
uri: Zanzibar-Tales-(1901)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zanzibar-tales
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/zanzibar-tales/zanzibartalestol00bateuoft_0009-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Ten folktales, translated from Swahili by George W. Bateman, showcasing the rich tradition of storytelling in Zanzibar. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dore-new-zealander
title: “When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s *The New Zealander* (1872)
uri: When-London-is-in-Ruins-Gustave-Doré-s-The-New-Zealander-(
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dore-new-zealander
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dore-new-zealander/Bpt6k10470488_f433-edit-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>The final plate from <em>London: A Pilgrimage</em> — a striking vision of a visitor sketching a capital in ruins.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sport-in-art
title: William Baillie-Grohman’s *Sport in Art* (1913)
uri: William-Baillie-Grohman-s-Sport-in-Art-(1913)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sport-in-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sport-in-art/sportinart_0010-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>William Baillie-Grohman’s text on the art of hunting reproduces 243 illustrations and 400 years of arcane knowledge related to the pursuit of animals.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marxist-astronomy-the-milky-way-according-to-anton-pannekoek
title: Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
uri: Marxist-Astronomy-The-Milky-Way-According-to-Anton-Pannekoek
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marxist-astronomy-the-milky-way-according-to-anton-pannekoek
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/pannekoek/pannekoek-1920-milyway.jpg" /></div><p>Can a person’s experiences on earth alter how they perceive the stars? Lauren Collee peers through the telescope of Anton Pannekoek, the Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mellan-sudarium-of-saint-veronica
title: An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s *The Sudarium of Saint Veronica* (1649)
uri: An-Iconic-Line-Claude-Mellan-s-The-Sudarium-of-Saint-Veronica-(16
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mellan-sudarium-of-saint-veronica
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/mellan-sudarium-of-saint-veronica/mellan-christ-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Mellan&#39;s pièce de résistance: an engraving of Christ incised with a single, spiralling line. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unkindo-kimono-designs
title: Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)
uri: Designs-from-Kimono-Pattern-Books-(ca-1902)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unkindo-kimono-designs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/unkindo-kimono-designs/kimono-banner-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>These designs capture a period of cultural change in Japan, when the kimono became increasingly associated with national mythmaking and tradition. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/tls-review
title: “The Internet at its Utopian Best”: A Fabulous Feature on *The Public Domain Review* in the *TLS*
uri: The-Internet-at-its-Utopian-Best-A-Fabulous-Feature-on-The-Pu
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/tls-review
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/tls-review/tls-feature-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Frances Wilson review&#39;s our project for a feature in this week&#39;s Times Literary Supplement</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-letter-h
title: Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s *The Letter H* (1880)
uri: Aspirated-Aspirations-Alfred-Leach-s-The-Letter-H-(1880)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-letter-h
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-letter-h/letterhpastprese00leac_thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>In <em>The Letter H</em>, Alfred Leach passionately defends the aspirated aitch in words like &quot;herb&quot;. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/laughter-in-the-time-of-cholera
title: Laughter in the Time of Cholera
uri: Laughter-in-the-Time-of-Cholera
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/laughter-in-the-time-of-cholera
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/laughter-in-the-time-of-cholera/laughter-cholera-featured.jpeg" /></div><p>Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form
title: Reborn Into a New Form (1849)
uri: Reborn-Into-a-New-Form-(1849)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/reborn-into-a-new-form/B_pokrovsky_kazn_1849-edit.jpeg" /></div><p>A second life? To live <em>again</em>? Fyodor Dostoevsky survived the uncanny pantomime of his own execution to be “reborn into a new form”. Here Alex Christofi gives these very words a kind of second life, stitching primary source excerpts into a “reconstructed memoir” — the memoir that Dostoevsky himself never wrote.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/babb-photographs
title: Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)
uri: Theresa-Babb-s-Photographs-of-Friendship-(ca-1898)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/babb-photographs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/babb-photographs/Babb-41-crop.jpeg" /></div><p>Theresa Babb&#39;s turn of the century photographs let us glimpse into a personal world of female friendship.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baraduc-soul
title: Imaging Inscape: *The Human Soul* (1913)
uri: Imaging-Inscape-The-Human-Soul-(1913)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baraduc-soul
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/baraduc-soul/bara_0225_feat.jpeg" /></div><p>Hippolyte Baraduc’s book recounts his invention of a photography-like process in which his subjects directly transmitted their soul’s vibrations onto a chemical plate.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/new-prints-nov-21
title: 28 New Prints Up On Our Online Shop
uri: 28-New-Prints-Up-On-Our-Online-Shop
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/new-prints-nov-21
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/new-prints-nov-21/nov-21-prints-compilation.jpg" /></div><p>New delights for your walls, including works by Blake, Grandville, Redon, Hiroshige, and lots of stunning Japanese firework illustrations.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2021
title: Last Order Dates for Christmas 2021
uri: Last-Order-Dates-for-Christmas-2021
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2021
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//shop/nov-21-prints-00012.jpg?w=640" /></div><p>The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/perry-miscarriage
title: Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)
uri: Joseph-Perry-s-Medical-Illustrations-of-Miscarriage-(1834)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/perry-miscarriage
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/perry-miscarriage/perry-banner-2.jpg" /></div><p>Compiled over the course of roughly six years, Granville’s medical text, features 12 coloured plates by Joseph Perry.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/william-wells-brown-wildcat-banker
title: William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
uri: William-Wells-Brown-Wildcat-Banker
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/william-wells-brown-wildcat-banker
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/william-wells-brown-wildcat-banker/william-wells-brown-feature.jpg" /></div><p>A cottage industry, yes, but a barbershop bank? Ross Bullen plots how a story told by William Wells Brown — novelist, historian, playwright, physician, and escaped slave  — circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis
title: *Clavis Artis* by “Zoroaster”
uri: Clavis-Artis-by-Zoroaster
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/clavis-artis/Ms-2-27.Hortis.V3.053-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Alchemical images from a 17th- or 18th-century manuscript that claims to be much older: a direct translation from Zoroaster himself. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2021
title: The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
uri: 2021-12-01-The-Launch-of-Our-End-of-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2021
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Ink.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/odd-showers
title: *Odd Showers* (1870)
uri: Odd-Showers-(1870)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/odd-showers
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/odd-showers/odd-shower-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>An odd little book about frogs and fishes raining down from the sky and the reasons why they do so.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/new-public-domain-countdown-calendar
title: Our New Countdown Calendar for Works Entering the Public Domain
uri: Our-New-Countdown-Calendar-for-Works-Entering-the-Public-Domain
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/new-public-domain-countdown-calendar
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/new-public-domain-countdown-calendar/pd-calendar.jpg" /></div><p>A new section on the site dedicated to celebrating works entering the public domain.</p>


title: All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022
uri: All-Sound-Recordings-Prior-to-1923-Will-Enter-the-US-Public-Domain-in
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/all-sound-recordings-prior-to-1923-will-enter-the-us-public-domain-in-2022

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/all-sound-recordings-prior-to-1923-will-enter-the-us-public-domain-in-2022

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/all-sound-recordings-prior-to-1923-will-enter-the-us-public-domain-in-2022/soundrecords-1923.jpeg" /></div><p>Thanks to the Music Modernization Act passed by US Congress in 2018, all sound recordings prior to 1923 will have their copyrights expire in the US on January 1st.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/little-switzerlands-alpine-kitsch-in-england
title: Little Switzerlands: Alpine Kitsch in England
uri: Little-Switzerlands-Alpine-Kitsch-in-England
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/little-switzerlands-alpine-kitsch-in-england
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/little-switzerlands-alpine-kitsch-in-england/little-switzerland-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Far from the treacherous peaks and ravines of Switzerland, Alpine cottages arose, unexpectedly, amid the hillocks and modest streams of 19th-century England. Seán Williams recovers the peculiar fad for “Little Switzerlands”, where the Romantic sublime meets countryside kitsch.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowball-fights
title: Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
uri: Snowball-Fights-in-Art-(1400-1946)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowball-fights
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/snowball-fights/snowball-fight-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>What’s wondrous about browsing the images of snowball fights gathered here is how little changes across centuries and continents.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2021
title: Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2021
uri: Top-10-Most-Read-Pieces-from-2021
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2021
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2021/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2021/top-10-2021-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>From Alice&#39;s Wonderland to Japanese fireworks, a rundown of the ten most read pieces we published this year.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/01/public-domain-day-2022
title: Happy Public Domain Day 2022!
uri: Happy-Public-Domain-Day-2022
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/01/public-domain-day-2022
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//features/countdown/2022/pooh.jpeg" /></div><p>Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, where a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym
title: Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
uri: Gustave-Zander-and-the-19th-Century-Gym
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/zander-gym/zander-26.jpg" /></div><p>Modern fitness culture finds its origins in 19th-century Stockholm, where Dr. Zander invented precursors to today&#39;s gym equipment. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frogs-to-apollo
title: Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy
uri: Between-Frogs-and-Gods-Illustrations-of-Physiognomy
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frogs-to-apollo
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/frogs-to-apollo/frogs-to-apollo-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Images of a frog metamorphing into Apollo illustrating Johann Kaspar Lavater&#39;s theories of physiognomy.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/beastly-clues
title: Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword
uri: Beastly-Clues-T-S-Eliot-Torquemada-and-the-Modernist-Crossword
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/beastly-clues
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/beastly-clues/crossword-craze-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Just a few years after <em>The Waste Land</em> appeared — a poem whose difficulty critics compared to some “pompous cross-word puzzle” —  Edward Powys Mathers (alias: Torquemada) pioneered the cryptic: a puzzle form that, like modernist poetry, unwove language and rewove it anew. Roddy Howland Jackson reveals the pleasures and imaginative creatures lurking in Torquemada&#39;s lively grids.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buddhist-texts-for-the-illiterate
title: Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
uri: Reciting-Pictures-Buddhist-Texts-for-the-Illiterate
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buddhist-texts-for-the-illiterate
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/illiterate-sutra/heart-sutra-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Some Japanese texts use a rebus-style script for teaching the illiterate to recite the <em>Heart Sūtra</em>, and other sacred texts, in Chinese.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society
title: Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)
uri: Resurrection-on-Repeat-Rules-and-Orders-of-the-Humane-Society-(1787
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/humane-society/drowned-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>The pamphlet documents thirteen years of success since the 1774 establishment of Britain’s Humane Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead by Drowning.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/holkham-bible
title: The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)
uri: The-Holkham-Bible-Picture-Book-(ca-1330)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/holkham-bible
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/holkham-bible/holkham-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>This &quot;Bible&quot; selectively illustrates the Old and New Testaments, taking us from Genesis to Revelation in a series of 231 beautifully executed miniatures.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-fate
title: Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: The Book of Fate (1822)
uri: Hieroglyphics-of-a-Rope-Dancer-The-Book-of-Fate-(1822)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-fate
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/book-of-fate/book-of-fate-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>An oracular hoax by William Henry Ireland, <em>aka</em> Herman Kirchenhoffer, that profited from the 19th-century mania for Egyptology and Napoleonic relics. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed
title: The Kept and the Killed
uri: The-Kept-and-the-Killed
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-kept-and-the-killed/kept-killed-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-james-stream-of-consciousness
title: William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)
uri: William-James-on-the-Stream-of-Consciousness-(1890)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/william-james-stream-of-consciousness
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/william-james-stream-of-consciousness/hamonshuyv3mori_0026-edit.jpeg" /></div><p>For William James, “the stream of thought” becomes a carefully chosen image for the flux of subjectivity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/portrait-of-a-scaphander
title: Portrait of a Scaphander
uri: Portrait-of-a-Scaphander
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/portrait-of-a-scaphander
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/portrait-of-a-scaphander/scaphander-crop.jpg" /></div><p>Brad Fox tells a history-story that pulls on a life-thread in the tangle of things. But that only makes it all a little knottier, no?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca
title: A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)
uri: A-Renaissance-Riddle-The-Sola-Busca-Tarot-Deck-(1491)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sola-busca/sola-busca-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>The oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot sequence, this mysterious deck contains a multitude of puzzles for both scholars and cartomancers. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/equality-of-the-sexes
title: Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
uri: Judith-Sargent-Murray-s-On-the-Equality-of-the-Sexes-(1790)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/equality-of-the-sexes
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/equality-of-the-sexes/copley-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Judith Sargent Murray’s essay made what was, at the time, a radical claim: women are the intellectual equals of men.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-paper-archaeology
title: A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias
uri: A-Paper-Archaeology-Piranesi-s-Ruinous-Fantasias
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-paper-archaeology
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/a-paper-archaeology/piranesi-feature-2.jpeg" /></div><p>From the vast confines of his <em>imaginary prisons</em> to the billowy scenes that comprise his <em>grotteschi</em>, the early works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi wed the exacting details of first-hand observation with the farthest reaches of artistic imagination. Susan Stewart journeys through this 18th-century engraver-architect’s paper worlds.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
title: Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)
uri: Unnatural-Selection-Emil-Schachtzabel-s-Pigeon-Prachtwerk-(1906)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/schachtzabel-pigeons/schachtzabel-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>This turn-of-the-century guide to pigeon breeds marries the concerns of fanciers with the evolutionary theories of naturalists. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dow-composition
title: Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition)
uri: Arthur-Wesley-Dow-s-Floating-World-Composition-(1905-edition)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dow-composition
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dow-composition/dow-thumb-1.jpeg" /></div><p>Arthur Wesley Dow&#39;s influential arts education handbook fused Japanese <em>ukiyo-e</em> with the author&#39;s unique minimalism, which he derived from the landscapes of New England. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies
title: Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)
uri: Albrecht-Dürer-s-Pillow-Studies-(1493)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/durer-pillow-studies/DP282111-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Completed in his early twenties, Dürer&#39;s pillow studies seem to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pajamas-from-spirit-land
title: “Pajamas from Spirit Land”: Searching for William James
uri: Pajamas-from-Spirit-Land-Searching-for-William-James
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pajamas-from-spirit-land
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/pajamas-from-spirit-land/william-james-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>After the passing of William James — philosopher, early psychologist, and investigator of psychic phenomena — mediums across the US began receiving messages from the late Harvard professor. Channelling these fragmentary voices, Alicia Puglionesi considers the relationship between communication, reputation, and survival after death. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bruegel-big-fish-little-fish
title: Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)
uri: Bruegel-the-Elder-s-Big-Fish-Eat-Little-Fish-(1556)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bruegel-big-fish-little-fish
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/bruegel-big-fish-little-fish/DP818314-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Bruegel&#39;s drawing, based on a proverb and subject to numerous adaptations, relates the natural world to injustice: the feeling that human predation is innately born and instinctive. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sowerby-mineralogy
title: James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy (1802–17)
uri: James-Sowerby-s-British-Mineralogy-(1802-1817)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sowerby-mineralogy
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sowerby-mineralogy/britishmineralog01sowe_thumb2.jpeg" /></div><p>Five-part mineralogical handbook containing more than four hundred vividly hand-colored engravings of various rocks, minerals, and compounds.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/love-and-longing-in-the-seaweed-album
title: Love and Longing in the Seaweed Album
uri: Love-and-Longing-in-the-Seaweed-Album
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/love-and-longing-in-the-seaweed-album
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/love-and-longing-in-the-seaweed-album/seaweed-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Combing across 19th-century shores, seaweed collectors would wander for hours, tucking specimens into pouches and jars, before pasting their finds into artful albums. Sasha Archibald explores the eros contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of notable algologists, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cycling-art
title: Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)
uri: Cycling-Art-Energy-and-Locomotion-(1889)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cycling-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/cycling-art/cyclingartenergy-10.jpg" /></div><p>Inventor Robert Pittis Scott&#39;s <em>Cycling Art</em> offers a whimsical and illustrated tour through the previous century of “man-motor locomotion”. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cabala-spiegel
title: A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia (1615)
uri: A-Hall-of-Mirrors-Cabala-Spiegel-Der-Kunst-Und-Natur-In-Alchymia
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cabala-spiegel
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/cabala-spiegel/cabala-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A cryptic, Rosicrucian-inspired text of disputed authorship, featuring engravings rich in alchemical symbolism.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hainhofer-stammbuch
title: Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)
uri: Philipp-Hainhofer-s-Große-Stammbuch-(1596-1633)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hainhofer-stammbuch
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hainhofer-stammbuch/hainhofers-stammbuch-feature-2.jpg" /></div><p>This 227-page volume collects, in wonderfully elaborate style, the signatures of over 75 of Europe’s most illustrious seventeenth-century nobles.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world
title: Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)
uri: Ferdinand-van-Kessel-s-Four-Parts-of-the-World-(ca-1689)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kessel-ansichten/kessel-views-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>These landscapes depict worlds populated by animals, where the built environment of humans is relegated to the distant background. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/luigi-russolos-cacophonous-futures
title: Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures
uri: Luigi-Russolo-s-Cacophonous-Futures
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/luigi-russolos-cacophonous-futures
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/luigi-russolos-cacophonous-futures/russolo-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo’s <i>intonarumori</i> — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the ambitions behind Italian Futurism’s experiments with noise and the sensory, spiritual, and political affinities of this radical new music. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory
title: Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)
uri: Earthen-Messages-Nikola-Tesla-in-his-Laboratory-(ca-1899)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/nikola-tesla-in-his-laboratory/tesla-with-equipment.jpg" /></div><p>This photograph of Tesla, produced for <em>The Century Magazine</em>, shows the inventor seated beneath his giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/5-million-book-illustrations-deleted-from-flickr
title: 5.2 Million Book Illustrations Deleted from Flickr — Help Get Them Back
uri: 5-2-Million-Book-Illustrations-Deleted-from-Flickr-Help-Get-Them-B
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/5-million-book-illustrations-deleted-from-flickr
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2022/5-million-book-illustrations-deleted-from-flickr-help-get-them-back/ia-book-images1-1024x679.jpeg" /></div><p>Learn about the deletion of a huge archive of book illustrations and sign an open letter to save it.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/giles-gingerbread
title: Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)
uri: Knowledge-by-the-Pound-The-Renowned-History-of-Giles-Gingerbread-(1
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/giles-gingerbread
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/giles-gingerbread/giles_gingerbread_thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>As Giles learns how to read, in this 18th-century children&#39;s book, he consumes an alphabet baked from gingerbread, literally becoming “A little Boy who lived upon Learning”.</p>


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title: A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)
uri: A-Vanishing-Nova-Uranographia-Britannica-(ca-1749)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bevis-uranographia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/bevis-uranographia/john-bevis-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>John Bevis&#39; atlas was one of the greatest star charts produced during the Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/documenting-drugs
title: Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
uri: Documenting-Drugs-The-Artful-Intoxications-of-Stanisław-Ignacy-Witki
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/documenting-drugs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/documenting-drugs/witkacy-feature.jpg" /></div><p>In pursuit of Pure Form, the Polish artist known as “Witkacy” would consume peyote, cocaine, and other intoxicants before creating pastel portraits. Juliette Bretan takes a trip through Witkiewicz’s chemical forays, including his 1932 <em>Narcotics</em>, a genre-bending treatise that warns of the hazards of drugs while seductively recollecting their delirious effects.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours
title: “The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/gartside-theory-of-colours/gartside-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Mary Gartside&#39;s <em>Essay</em> antedates James Sowerby’s and Goethe’s treatises on colour, while its illustrations have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-encyclopedia-of-light
title: The Encyclopedia of Light
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-encyclopedia-of-light
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-encyclopedia-of-light/turner-channel-00008.jpeg" /></div><p>In the affecting work of sensory history, Peter Schmidt uses the “strikethrough” as a kind of shadow-writing: his “Encyclopedia of Light” reveals little dark threads of undoing — marks of the second thought that endlessly cancels the first.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ostentatio-genitalium
title: Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art
uri: Ostentatio-Genitalium-in-Renaissance-Art
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ostentatio-genitalium
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/ostentatio-genitalium/Allegory_of_Salvation_by_Wolf_Huber_(cca_1543)-crop-2.jpeg" /></div><p>In the Renaissance <em>ostentatio genitalium</em> tradition, the visual virility of Christ affirms his divinity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/stream-of-time
title: The Stream of Time (1803–58)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/stream-of-time
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/stream-of-time/stream-of-time-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In &quot;stream of time&quot; charts, Friedrich Strass and later artists depict human history as bodies of flowing water. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/handy-mnemonics
title: Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine
uri: Handy-Mnemonics-The-Five-Fingered-Memory-Machine
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/handy-mnemonics
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/handy-mnemonics/handy-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices of another kind — preserving knowledge on the surface of fingers and palms. Kensy Cooperrider leads us through a millennium of “hand mnemonics” and the variety of techniques practised by Buddhist monks, Latin linguists, and Renaissance musicians for remembering what might otherwise elude the mind.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/affinities-trade-edition-available-for-pre-order
title: Trade Edition of Affinities Now Available for Pre-order
uri: Trade-Edition-of-Affinities-Now-Available-for-Pre-order
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/04/affinities-trade-edition-available-for-pre-order
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2022/affinities-trade-edition-available-for-pre-order/affinities-trade-widget-comp-2.jpg" /></div><p>Published by Thames and Hudson, the trade edition of Affinities will be out in the UK on May 26th and in the US on June 7th.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-true-and-wonderful-narrative
title: “A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: A True and Wonderful Narrative (1763)
uri: A-Sword-was-Seen-in-the-Sky-A-True-and-Wonderful-Narrative-(1
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-true-and-wonderful-narrative
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/a-true-and-wonderful-narrative/truewonderfulnar00unse_woodcut-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Pamphlet, printed in Philadelphia, describing strange sky phenomena witnessed over Riga and Kirschberg.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hitchcock-illustrations
title: Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)
uri: Orra-White-Hitchcock-s-Scientific-Illustrations-for-the-Classroom-(1
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hitchcock-illustrations
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hitchcock-illustrations/hitchcock-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>These hand-coloured scientific illustrations — on poster-sized linen swaths designed to be hung on classroom walls — are striking for their modern abstraction.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/luyken-osteologia
title: Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)
uri: Jan-Luyken-s-Frontispiece-for-Osteologia-(1680)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/luyken-osteologia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/luyken-osteologia/luyken-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This etching seems to speak to the Enlightenment’s mission to give order to the natural world.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters
title: Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond
uri: Petrified-Waters-The-Artificial-Grottoes-of-the-Renaissance-and-Beyon
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/petrified-waters/grotto-feature-2.jpg" /></div><p>Idling alongside the waters of artificial grottoes, visitors found themselves in lush, otherworldly settings, where art and nature, pleasure and peril, and humans and nymphs could, for a time, coexist. Laura Tradii spelunks through the handmade caves of the Italian Renaissance and their reception abroad, illuminating how these curious spaces transformed across the centuries.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-bathysphere
title: Alexander in the Bathysphere
uri: Alexander-in-the-Bathysphere
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-bathysphere
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/alexander-bathysphere/alexander-bathysphere-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>The story of Alexander the Great descending into the sea in a diving bell has led to diverse visual representations across countries, languages, and centuries.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harris-list-of-covent-garden-ladies
title: Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
uri: Harris-s-List-of-Covent-Garden-Ladies-(1757-1795)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harris-list-of-covent-garden-ladies
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/harris-list-of-covent-garden-ladies/HarrisLadies-3_0017.jpeg" /></div><p>As historical documents, the surviving editions of <em>Harris’s List</em> offer today’s readers a rare glimpse into London&#39;s 18th-century sex trade.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/testa-anatomica
title: Filippo Balbi’s Testa Anatomica (1854)
uri: Filippo-Balbi-s-Testa-Anatomica-(1854)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/testa-anatomica
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/testa-anatomica/testa-anatomica-edit.jpg" /></div><p>Echoing the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, a composite head comprised of a tortuous tangle of écorché-like figures.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-angel-and-puppet
title: Of Angel and Puppet: Klee, Rilke, and the Test of Innocence
uri: Of-Angel-and-Puppet-Klee-Rilke-and-the-Test-of-Innocence
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/of-angel-and-puppet
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/of-angel-and-puppet/klee-puppets-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Built for his son from the scraps of daily life — matchboxes, beef bones, nutshells, and plaster — Paul Klee’s hand puppets harbour ghosts of human feelings, fragile communications from a world most adults have left behind. Kenneth Gross compares these enchanted objects to angelic figures, in Klee’s artworks and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, helping us dance as well as wrestle with their visions of innocence.</p>


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title: Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)
uri: Portrait-of-Charlotte-du-Val-d-Ognes-(1801)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/villers-portrait
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/villers-portrait/DP-416-001-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>This portrait, believed to be the work of Marie-Denise Villers, encodes questions of gender and artistry in late-eighteenth century France. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/inkblot-books
title: Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1859–1915)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/inkblot-books
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/inkblot-books/inkblots-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Inkblot books were part bestiary, part parlor-game séance, cataloging those creatures that seemed to crawl out of the inkwell with the slightest encouragement. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-spiritualism-really-is
title: The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)
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content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/what-spiritualism-really-is/carlyle.jpg" /></div><p>Over the course of a year, Thomas Carlyle supposedly transmitted this text to Dr. Wm. J. Bryan from beyond the grave. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/out-on-the-town
title: Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex
uri: Out-on-the-Town-Magnus-Hirschfeld-and-Berlin-s-Third-Sex
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/out-on-the-town
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/out-on-the-town/hirschfeld-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study <i>Berlin’s Third Sex</i> depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces a foundational text of queer identity that finds Magnus Hirschfeld — the “Einstein of Sex” — deploying both sentiment and science to move hearts and minds among a broad readership.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-22
title: The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
uri: 2022-06-15-The-Launch-of-Our-Mid-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-22
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Air.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/06/creative-review-interview
title: Interview with PDR&#39;s Editor-in-Chief in Creative Review
uri: Interview-with-PDR-s-Editor-in-Chief-in-Creative-Review
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/06/creative-review-interview
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/testa-anatomica/testa-anatomica-edit.jpg" /></div><p>Adam Green talks to Creative Review about the new image book Affinities, and the concept of &quot;originality&quot;.</p>


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title: Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)
uri: Unai-no-tomo-Catalogues-of-Japanese-Toys-(1891-1923)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unai-no-tomo
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/unai-no-tomo/unai-no-tomo-7.26.jpg" /></div><p>The ten-volume <em>Unai no tomo</em> is comprised of charming woodblock prints of traditional objects of play.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shores-of-the-polar-sea
title: Shores of the Polar Sea (1878)
uri: Shores-of-the-Polar-Sea-(1878)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shores-of-the-polar-sea
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/shores-of-the-polar-sea/moss-shores-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A mixture of intimate journal entries, miscellaneous engravings, and sixteen chromolithographs — a unique, often surreal, retelling of life on the ice.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/story-of-sun-moon-stars
title: Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898)
uri: Agnes-Giberne-s-The-Story-of-the-Sun-Moon-and-Stars-(1898)
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content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/story-of-sun-moon-stars/giberne-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This text is less a Victorian astronomy primer than the foundation for a phenomenological star wisdom.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-squares-before-malevich
title: Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich
uri: Precedents-of-the-Unprecedented-Black-Squares-Before-Malevich
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-squares-before-malevich
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/before-black-square/Malevich-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Described by Kasimir Malevich as the “first step of pure creation in art”, his <em>Black Square</em> of 1915 has been cast as a total break from all that came before it. Yet searching across more than five hundred years of images related to mourning, humour, politics, and philosophy, Andrew Spira uncovers a slew of unlikely foreshadows to Malevich&#39;s radical abstraction.</p>


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title: It Started with Muybridge (1964)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/it-started-with-muybridge
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/it-started-with-muybridge/started-with-muybridge.jpg" /></div><p>The future’s bombs, this training film produced by the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory claims, will be detonated atop the shoulders of yesterday’s “photographer extraordinary”, Eadweard Muybridge.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/campi-phlegraei
title: Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)
uri: Peter-Fabris-Illustrations-for-William-Hamilton-s-Campi-Phlegrae
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/campi-phlegraei
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/campi-phlegraei/campi-phlegraei-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Hand-coloured plates of “the utmost fidelity” for William Hamilton&#39;s documentation of the late-eighteenth-century eruptions of Mount Vesuvius.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualising-bubbles
title: Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/visualising-bubbles
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/visualising-bubbles/Memento+mori%3B+muzea_malopolska_pl-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Like the substance itself, which binds to all kinds of grime, soap bubbles make for sticky symbols, assuming disparate associations — from innocence to vanitas, physics to politics — in the history of visual art. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jumbos-ghost
title: Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion
uri: Jumbo-s-Ghost-Elephants-and-Machines-in-Motion
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jumbos-ghost
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/jumbos-ghost/jumbo-feature.jpg" /></div><p>On September 15, 1885, twenty-five years after his capture in Sudan, Jumbo the elephant tragically died when struck by a freight train. Ross Bullen takes us on a spectral journey through other collisions between elephant and machine — in adventure novels, abandoned roadside hotels, and psychic science — revealing latent anxieties at the century’s turn.</p>


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title: Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)
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content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/phantom-flowers/phantom-flowers-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>These two treatises detail the art of leaf preservation through “skeletonization”. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyle-mermaid
title: Howard Pyle&#39;s The Mermaid (1910)
uri: Howard-Pyle-s-The-Mermaid-(1910)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyle-mermaid
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/pyle-mermaid/pyle-mermaid-edit-featured.jpeg" /></div><p>A year before his death, the artist Howard Pyle set off for Italy, leaving unfinished on his Delaware easel his final painting <em>The Mermaid</em>  — a profoundly haunting work of art. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
title: Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dexter-pickle/dexter-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A strange 1797 text — in a personal eye dialect and entirely devoid of punctuation — written by the eccentric 18th-century businessman known for his wildly good luck.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/colonizing-the-cosmos
title: Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
uri: Colonizing-the-Cosmos-Astor-s-Electrical-Future
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/colonizing-the-cosmos
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/colonizing-the-cosmos/02-1280px-Electrical_building,_World_s_Columbian_Exposition,_Chicago,_1892.jpeg" /></div><p>During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s <em>A Journey in Other Worlds</em>, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.</p>


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title: The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
uri: The-Blood-Collages-of-John-Bingley-Garland-(ca-1850-60)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/garland-blood-collages
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/garland-blood-collages/blood-collage-detail.jpg" /></div><p>Some 50 years before collage would become an established art form, came these pioneering Victorian images all of which exude a certain decorative detail: blood. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cornish-waves
title: The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)
uri: The-Kumatologist-Vaughan-Cornish-s-Wave-Studies-(1910-14)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cornish-waves
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/cornish-waves/wavesofsandsnowe00corn_thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>After a transformative moment on the Devon Coast, Vaughan Cornish devoted his life to the study of waveforms. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hamann-turner
title: The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)
uri: The-Turns-of-the-Turnverein-Heinrich-Hamann-s-Gymnastic-Photograp
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hamann-turner
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hamann-turner/turner-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>More than a set of techniques to improve individual fitness, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Christoph Jahn’s gymnastics were meant to train a new form of body politic. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/hypnerotomachia-poliphili-and-the-architecture-of-dreams
title: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Architecture of Dreams
uri: Hypnerotomachia-Poliphili-and-the-Architecture-of-Dreams
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/hypnerotomachia-poliphili-and-the-architecture-of-dreams
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/hypnerotomachia-poliphili/polipholo-dream-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>With its otherworldly woodcuts and ornate descriptions of imagined architecture, <em>Hypnerotomachia Poliphili</em> brims with an obsessive and erotic fixation on form. Demetra Vogiatzaki accompanies the hero as he wanders the pages of this quattrocento marvel, at once a story of lost love and a fever dream of antiquity. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/despinque-anglicus-illuminations
title: Evrard d&#39;Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480)
uri: Evrard-d-Espinque-s-Illuminations-of-De-Proprietatibus-Rerum-(ca
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/despinque-anglicus-illuminations
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/despinque-anglicus-illuminations/barthelemy-langlais-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Among the loveliest illuminations of Bartholomaeus Anglicus&#39; encyclopedia, Evrard d&#39;Espinque&#39;s illuminations use a T-O pattern to trace the Great Chain of Being. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/how-it-feels-to-be-run-over
title: “Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)
uri: Mother-Will-Be-Pleased-How-It-Feels-to-Be-Run-Over-(1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/how-it-feels-to-be-run-over
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/how-it-feels-to-be-run-over/mother.jpg" /></div><p>One of the earliest uses of intertitles, Hepworth’s film belongs to a genre of fin-de-siècle accident pictures, where we can observe cinema discovering new forms of communication. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
title: Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)
uri: Fungi-Collected-in-Shropshire-and-Other-Neighbourhoods-(1860-1902)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fungi-of-shropshire/lewis-fungi-thumb-real.jpeg" /></div><p>Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, <em>Fungi</em> features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedral-perspective
title: The Polyhedral Perspective
uri: The-Polyhedral-Perspective
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedral-perspective
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/melancholy-polyhedra/geometry-feature-2.jpeg" /></div><p>When geometrical solids took hold of the Renaissance imagination, they promised the quintessence of the third dimension in its pure and unadulterated form. Noam Andrews discovers how polyhedra descended from mathematical treatises to artists’ studios, distilling abstract ideas into objects one could see and touch.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/daniel-murray-preliminary-list
title: Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)
uri: Black-Bibliography-Daniel-Murray-s-Preliminary-List-(1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/daniel-murray-preliminary-list
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/daniel-murray-preliminary-list/black-bibliography-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Prepared for “The Exhibit of American Negroes” at the Paris Exposition, Murray&#39;s bibliography lists all works of Black Americans known at the time.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etteilla-thot
title: Etteilla’s Livre de Thot Tarot (ca. 1789)
uri: Etteilla-s-Livre-de-Thot-Tarot-(ca-1789)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etteilla-thot
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/etteilla-thot/etteilla-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette refashioned the tarot deck as a tool for spiritual and mundane divination. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/synaesthesia-diagrams-1883
title: Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)
uri: Synaesthesia-s-Colour-Debut-(1883)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/synaesthesia-diagrams-1883
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/galton-inquiries/humanfacultydeve00galt_0422-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Francis Galton&#39;s <em>Inquiries Into Human Faculty and its Development</em> features what is thought to be the first colour image of synaesthetic visualisations.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwins-diagrams-of-plant-movement
title: “Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
uri: Spontaneous-Revolutions-Darwin-s-Diagrams-of-Plant-Movement
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwins-diagrams-of-plant-movement
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/darwins-diagrams-of-plant-movement/powerofmovementi00darw_feature.jpeg" /></div><p>After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin set about inventing a system for making botanic motion visible to the naked eye. Natalie Lawrence delves into a lesser-known chapter of the naturalist’s research, discovering revelations about the vegetal world that remain neglected to this day.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cummins-indian-congress
title: Playing Indian: Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island (1903)
uri: Playing-Indian-Cummins-Indian-Congress-at-Coney-Island-(1903)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cummins-indian-congress
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/cummins-indian-congress/cummins-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The Coney Island “Congress”, supposedly captured here in audio, was a conglomeration of counterfeits.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
title: Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)
uri: Shadows-from-the-Walls-of-Death-(1874)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kedzie-shadows
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kedzie-shadows/arsenic-thumb-4.jpeg" /></div><p>Originally printed in a run of one hundred copies, only a half-dozen of which remain, this dangerous book is made from wallpaper laced with arsenic. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/prousts-pinks
title: Proust’s Pinks
uri: Proust-s-Pinks
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/prousts-pinks
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/prousts-pinks/proust-pink-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>For vast stretches of <em>À la recherche du temps perdu</em>, there is scarcely a page unadorned by vibrant colour. To commemorate the centenary of Marcel Proust’s death, Christopher Prendergast celebrates his use of pink, how its tone shifts from innocence to themes of sexual need, before finally fading out to grey at the novel’s close.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flammarion-engraving
title: Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)
uri: Wheels-Within-Wheels-The-Flammarion-Engraving-(ca-1888)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flammarion-engraving
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/flammarion-engraving/flam-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This celestial image has long stumped scholars: is it a lost Renaissance engraving or a nineteenth century pastiche?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mayer-medusae
title: Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910)
uri: Floating-Phantoms-A-G-Mayer-s-Medusae-of-the-World-(1910)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mayer-medusae
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/mayer-medusae/mayer-lead-5.jpg" /></div><p>While Haeckel turns jellyfish into baroque spectacles of color and flowing form, Mayer’s medusae are more sober, their tentacles subdued, their umbellate bells transparent.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
title: A Pantomime and Masquerade: Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)
uri: A-Pantomime-and-Masquerade-Trivia-or-the-Art-of-Walking-the-Street
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/gay-trivia/hogarth-trivia-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, Gay renders practical advice for walking around London into oftentimes absurd verse.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken
title: The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
uri: The-Tanzmasken-of-Lavinia-Schulz-and-Walter-Holdt-(ca-1924)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/tanzmasken/tanzmaske-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>These costumes for dancing, born of an artistic philosophy of suffering, suggest a mongrel collision of characters.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/musee-dupuytren-catalogue
title: Displaying the Dead: The Musée Dupuytren Catalogue
uri: Displaying-the-Dead-The-Musée-Dupuytren-Catalogue
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/musee-dupuytren-catalogue
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/musee-dupuytren-catalogue/dupuytren-ribs-featured-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>When Paris’ infamous museum of anatomical pathology closed its doors in 2016, a controversial collection disappeared from view. Daisy Sainsbury explores the history of the Musée Dupuytren, and asks what an ethical future might look like for the human specimens it held. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/11/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2022
title: The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
uri: 2022-11-30-The-Launch-of-Our-End-of-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/11/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2022
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Power.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals
title: A Bestiary of Loss
uri: A-Bestiary-of-Loss
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/extinct-animals/extinct-animals-thumb-2.jpg" /></div><p>To mark Lost Species Day, images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories — from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/concrete-poetry-thomas-edison
title: Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
uri: Concrete-Poetry-Thomas-Edison-and-the-Almost-Built-World
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/concrete-poetry-thomas-edison
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/concrete-poetry-thomas-edison/edison-with-concretehouse-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The architect and historian Anthony Acciavatti uses a real (but mostly forgotten) patent to conjure a world that <em>could have been</em>.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mighty-mikko
title: Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)
uri: Mighty-Mikko-A-Book-of-Finnish-Fairy-Tales-and-Folk-Tales-(1922)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mighty-mikko
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/mighty-mikko/mikko-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Mighty Mikko contains twelve stories loosely based on Finnish tales, illustrated with vibrant block prints by Jay Van Everen. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solar-system-quilt
title: Ellen Harding Baker&#39;s “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)
uri: Ellen-Harding-Baker-s-Solar-System-Quilt-(1876-ca-1883)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solar-system-quilt
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/solar-system-quilt/baker-solar-quilt-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Working as an astronomy teacher in Lone Tree, Iowa, Ellen Harding Baker quilted this magnificent representation of the cosmos for her students.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color
title: In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images
uri: In-Search-of-True-Color-Sergei-Prokudin-Gorsky-s-Flawed-Images
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/in-search-of-true-color/in-search-of-true-color-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Archived amid Prokudin-Gorsky’s vast photographic survey of the Russian Empire, we find images shot through with starshatter cracks, blebbed with mildew, and blurred by motion. Within such moments of unmaking, Erica X Eisen uncovers the overlapping forces at play behind these pioneering efforts in colour photography.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/introducing-the-pdr-index
title: Introducing the PDR Index
uri: Introducing-the-PDR-Index
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/introducing-the-pdr-index
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2022/introducing-the-pdr-index/Novus_Atlas_Sinensis_-_First_page_of_the_index.jpeg" /></div><p>We&#39;ve made an index for the site, to track chance resonances, collect accidental symmetries, and chart themes that only become visible on an indexical scale.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2022
title: Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2022
uri: Top-10-Most-Read-Pieces-from-2022
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2022/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2022
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2022/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2022/top-10-2022-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>From a 1904 study of queer Berlin to the mysteries of a hole-punched archive, a rundown of the ten most read pieces we published this year.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-day-2023
title: Happy Public Domain Day 2023!
uri: Happy-Public-Domain-Day-2023
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/public-domain-day-2023
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2023/public-domain-day-2023/publicdomain-2023.jpg" /></div><p>Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, where a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/crane-months
title: The Procession of the Months (ca. 1889)
uri: The-Procession-of-the-Months-(ca-1889)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/crane-months
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/crane-months/crane-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Created sometime around 1889 by Beatrice and Walter Crane, this illustrated series of poems personifies the months of the year as women. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
title: The Book of Bread (1903)
uri: The-Book-of-Bread-(1903)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-bread
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/book-of-bread/book-of-bread-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>This reference manual for commercial bakeries includes striking pasted-in silver bromide prints and dazzling chromolithographs of bread. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eating-and-reading-with-katherine-mansfield
title: Eating and Reading with Katherine Mansfield
uri: Eating-and-Reading-with-Katherine-Mansfield
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eating-and-reading-with-katherine-mansfield
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/eating-and-reading-with-katherine-mansfield/Mansfield-thumb-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Like fast food and snacks, the short story has been derided as minor cuisine, ephemeral and insubstantial, light fare compared to the novel’s sustenance. For Katherine Mansfield, a great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her fiction — stories, in turn, that are filled with scenes of alimentary pleasure. On the centenary of the New Zealand writer’s death, Aimée Gasston samples her appetites. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scare-fox
title: Art Brut: The Scare-Fox (1910)
uri: Art-Brut-The-Scare-Fox-(1910)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scare-fox
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/scare-fox/scare-fox-edit-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A mechanical device, designed to keep foxes away from pheasants, which opens onto a story about American gamekeeping in the early twentieth century. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fechtbucher
title: Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher
uri: Battles-of-the-Sexes-Duels-between-Women-and-Men-in-1400s-Fechtbüche
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fechtbucher
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fechtbucher/fechtbucher-duel-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>These manuscript illustrations from the 1400s raise a historically vexing question: did men and women really duel to settle judicial disputes?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
title: Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)
uri: Frost-Flowers-on-the-Windows-(1899)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/frost-flowers/frost-flowers-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>This forgotten monograph puts forward a novel theory: that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ensor-sins
title: James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)
uri: James-Ensor-The-Deadly-Sins-(ca-1904)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ensor-sins
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/ensor-sins/ensor-sins-thumb-2.jpg" /></div><p>James Ensor&#39;s etchings of the seven deadly sins stage personal grievances and caricatures through grotesque, Christian symbolism. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illusory-wealth
title: Illusory Wealth: Victor Dubreuil’s Cryptic Currencies
uri: Illusory-Wealth-Victor-Dubreuil-s-Cryptic-Currencies
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illusory-wealth
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/illusory-wealth/dubreuil-feature-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>After supposedly stealing 500,000 francs from his bank, the mysterious Victor Dubreuil (b. 1842) turned up penniless in the United States and began to paint dazzling trompe l’oeil images of dollar bills. Once associated with counterfeiting and subject to seizures by the Treasury Department, these artworks are evaluated anew by Dorinda Evans, who considers Dubreuil’s unique anti-capitalist visions among the most daring and socially critical of his time.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/introducing-pdr-revisited
title: Introducing PDR Revisited
uri: Introducing-PDR-Revisited
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/01/introducing-pdr-revisited
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2023/pdr-revisited-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>We are revisiting older posts in our collection to give them some much needed love.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica
title: John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)
uri: John-H-White-s-Photographs-of-Black-Chicago-for-DOCUMERICA-(1973
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/documerica/documerica-thumb-3.jpeg" /></div><p>As part of the DOCUAMERICA project, which sought to produce a visual record of the 1970s US, John H. White took stunning photographs of Black Chicago. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/moseley-coffee
title: A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)
uri: A-Treatise-Concerning-the-Properties-and-Effects-of-Coffee-(1792)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/moseley-coffee
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/moseley-coffee/coffee-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Benjamin Moseley&#39;s treatise argues the multitude of benefits that come from drinking coffee, when the beverage was still relatively new to Europe.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/concealing-coloration
title: Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)
uri: Many-Colored-Misdirection-Concealing-Coloration-in-the-Animal-Kingdom
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/concealing-coloration
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/concealing-coloration/concealing-coloration-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An exposition on camouflage that believes all animal coloration is an attempt to blend in. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-emancipatory-visions-of-a-sex-magician
title: The Emancipatory Visions of a Sex Magician: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Politics
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-emancipatory-visions-of-a-sex-magician
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-emancipatory-visions-of-a-sex-magician/randolph-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Erotic magic, Black emancipation, gender fluidity, interplanetary spirit realms — these were but a few of the topics that preoccupied Paschal Beverly Randolph (b. 1825), an occult thinker who believed that his multiracial identity afforded him “peculiar mental power and marvelous versatility”. Lara Langer Cohen considers the neglected politics of Randolph’s esoteric writings alongside the repeated frustration of his activism: how dreams of other worlds, above and below our own, reflect the unfulfilled promises of Emancipation. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps
title: Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)
uri: Levi-Walter-Yaggy-s-Geographical-Maps-and-Charts-(1887-93)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/yaggy-geographical-maps/yaggy-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Two series of elaborate educational charts, featuring illuminated cutaways and chromolithographic layers, which demonstrate their creator&#39;s belief that wonder is the helpmate of learning.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-slant-book
title: Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)
uri: Downhill-from-Here-The-Slant-Book-(1910)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-slant-book
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-slant-book/slant-book-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Book shaped like a rhomboid by Peter Newell, which tells the story of a runaway baby stroller&#39;s downhill journey. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dool-hoff
title: Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
uri: Dool-Hoff-A-Dutch-Maze-with-New-Jerusalem-at-its-Centre-(1705)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dool-hoff
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dool-hoff/dool-hof-crop-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This 1705 maze instructs Christians on the possible pathways to New Jerusalem (and dead-ends to be avoided). </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/images-from-the-collective-unconscious
title: Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/images-from-the-collective-unconscious
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/images-from-the-collective-unconscious/eranos-feature-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that would allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history. Frederika Tevebring explores this grandiose undertaking and its effect on the archivist, as images from the collection began to blur with her psyche.</p>


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title: Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)
uri: Law-and-Ordure-Scatalogic-Rites-of-All-Nations-(1891)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/scatalogic-rites
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/scatalogic-rites/bourke-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In this strange book, marked “not for general perusal”, the use of excrement in medicine, magic, and culture is elevated to a universal aspect of human life. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/march-of-the-intellect
title: “March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)
uri: March-of-the-Intellect-Cartoons-(1828-29)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/march-of-the-intellect
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/march-of-the-intellect/march-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In their imagination and satire, these prints reflected debates about education reform and the dissemination of knowledge in 1820s Britain.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/munsell-atlas
title: Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915)
uri: Atlas-of-the-Munsell-Color-System-(1915)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/munsell-atlas
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/munsell-atlas/munsell-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Munsell envisioned his atlas as a system akin to musical notation, which would liberate visual description from commercially-driven colour names. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pregnancy-in-early-modern-europe
title: Picturing Pregnancy in Early Modern Europe
uri: Picturing-Pregnancy-in-Early-Modern-Europe
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pregnancy-in-early-modern-europe
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/figuring-the-womb/birth-figures-feature-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>When the womb began to appear in printed images during the 16th century, it was understood through analogy: a garden, uroscopy flask, or microcosm of the universe. Rebecca Whiteley explores early modern birth figures, which picture the foetus <em>in utero</em>, and discovers an iconic form imbued with multiple kinds of knowledge: from midwifery know-how to alchemical secrets, astrological systems to new anatomical findings.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phallic-tree-worship
title: Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phallic-tree-worship
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/phallic-tree-worship/cultus-arbortum-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Offering hundreds of examples from religious history, this book was part of a larger Phallic Series of treatises by Hargrave Jennings.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/basohli-beetle-paintings
title: Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)
uri: Beetle-Carapaces-in-Basohli-Miniature-Paintings-(ca-1660-1700)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/basohli-beetle-paintings
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/basohli-beetle-paintings/basohli-beetles-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>Rising to prominence in the seventeenth century, the Basohli School of painting is particularly known for its vibrant use of color and inventive textural elements — including iridescent beetle carapaces.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/chaos-bewitched-moby-dick-and-ai
title: Chaos Bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI
uri: Chaos-Bewitched-Moby-Dick-and-AI
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/chaos-bewitched-moby-dick-and-ai
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/chaos-bewitched/moby-lead-edit-3.jpeg" /></div><p>Eigil zu Tage-Ravn asks a GTP-3-driven AI system for help in the interpretation of a key scene in <em>Moby-Dick</em> (1851). Do androids dream of electric whales?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/microscopic-delights
title: Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/microscopic-delights
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/microscopic-delights/3lede-0255.jpg" /></div><p>These 18th-century microscopic illustrations offer wonderful glimpses into the minutiae of the natural world. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/beast-in-the-blood-jean-denis-and-the-transfusion-affair
title: Beast in the Blood: Jean Denis and the “Transfusion Affair”
uri: Beast-in-the-Blood-Jean-Denis-and-the-Transfusion-Affair
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/beast-in-the-blood-jean-denis-and-the-transfusion-affair
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/beast-in-the-blood/jean-denis-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>During the late 1660s in Paris, transfusing the blood of calves and lambs into human veins held the promise of renewed youth and vigour. Peter Sahlins explores Jean Denis’ controversial experiments driven by his belief in the moral superiority of animal blood: a substance that could help redeem the fallen state of humanity. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blights-of-the-bookish
title: Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)
uri: Blights-of-the-Bookish-An-Essay-on-Diseases-Incidental-to-Literary-an
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blights-of-the-bookish
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/blights-of-the-bookish/Carl_Spitzweg_021.jpeg" /></div><p>In this essay on the ailments of sedentary lifestyles, reading and scholarly study have tragic and sometimes fatal consequences. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fraktur-folk-art
title: Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)
uri: Fraktur-Folk-Art-(ca-1750-1820)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fraktur-folk-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fraktur-folk-art/fraktur-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This form of folk art from 17th- and 18th-century Pennsylvania was designed for private, domestic pleasures. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manhattans-last-arcadia
title: Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)
uri: Manhattan-s-Last-Arcadia-Estate-Plans-from-the-Index-of-American-De
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manhattans-last-arcadia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/manhattans-last-arcadia/blackwell-survey-iad-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>These watercolour images depict a lost 19th-century Manhattan of grand country estates and vast private gardens. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-city-that-fell-off-a-cliff
title: The City That Fell Off a Cliff
uri: The-City-That-Fell-Off-a-Cliff
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-city-that-fell-off-a-cliff
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-lost-city-of-dunwich/dunwich-lead.jpeg" /></div><p>Beneath the waves, off the Suffolk Coast, lies a city taken by the sea through centuries of erosion. Matthew Green revisits Dunwich, a once lively port transfigured into a symbol of loss, both eerie and profound, for generations of artists, poets, and historians drawn to its ruinous shores.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dentologia
title: Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)
uri: Dentologia-A-Poem-on-the-Diseases-of-the-Teeth-(1833)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dentologia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dentologia/dentologia-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A sprawling eighty-page poem about teeth, written by an eminent dentist, with fifty pages of erudite endnotes. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cranch-new-philosophy
title: C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)
uri: C-P-Cranch-s-Very-Literal-Illustrations-of-Emerson-s-Nature-(ca
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cranch-new-philosophy
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/cranch-new-philosophy/cranch-eyeball-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In these illustrations, Emerson&#39;s words are interpreted literally, repurposed for cheeky, teasing, and toothless ends. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shy-guy
title: Shy Guy (1947)
uri: Shy-Guy-(1947)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shy-guy
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/shy-guy/shy-guy-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In this “personal guidance” film, Phil the shy guy learns a valuable lesson: to fit in, you need to “think about the other guy”. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters
title: Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine
uri: Troubled-Waters-Reading-Urine-in-Medieval-Medicine
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/troubled-waters/uroscopy-feature.jpg" /></div><p>From cabbage green to course meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body&#39;s liquid excretions. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sundial-mottoes
title: “Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)
uri: Though-Silent-I-Speak-A-Book-of-Sundial-Mottoes-(1903)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sundial-mottoes
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sundial-mottoes/bookofsundial_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A collection of more than 60 sundial inscriptions, exploring various themes relating to the passing of time. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified
title: Punctuation Personified (1824)
uri: Punctuation-Personified-(1824)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/punctuation-personified/punctuation-personified-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Taking a child on a tour through punctuation, Mr. Stops introduces him to a cast of literal “characters”: admiring exclamation marks and militaristic semicolons.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/verany-cephalopods
title: Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)
uri: Jean-Baptiste-Vérany-s-Chromolithographs-of-Cephalopods-(1851)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/verany-cephalopods
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/verany-cephalopods/mollusques-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In these images, Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dreams
title: The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
uri: The-Ether-Dreams-of-Fin-de-Siècle-Paris
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dreams
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/ether-dreams/ether-featured.jpg" /></div><p>Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological hauntings, and slippages of space and time. Mike Jay explores how the powerful solvents shaped the writings of Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain — psychonauts who opened the door to an invisible dimension of mind and suffered Promethean consequences.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/indian-sign-talk
title: Indian Sign Talk (1893)
uri: Indian-Sign-Talk-(1893)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/indian-sign-talk
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/indian-sign-talk/sign-talk-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An early guide to communicating in the language now known as Plains Indian Sign Language.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/los-angeles-alligator-farm
title: Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm (ca. 1907)
uri: Photographs-of-the-Los-Angeles-Alligator-Farm-(ca-1907)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/los-angeles-alligator-farm
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/los-angeles-alligator-farm/alligator-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable today.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/peking-opera
title: Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
uri: Peking-Opera-Characters-(ca-1900)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/peking-opera
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/peking-opera/peking-opera-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Painted by an unidentified artist, these opera characters are gathered from literature, military history, and myth.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-brothers-perrault
title: Marvellous Moderns: The Brothers Perrault
uri: Marvellous-Moderns-The-Brothers-Perrault
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-brothers-perrault
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-brothers-perrault/perrault-feature.jpeg" /></div><p>Charles Perrault is celebrated as the collector of some of the world’s best-known fairy tales. But his brothers were just as remarkable: Claude, an architect of the Louvre, and Pierre, who discovered the hydrological cycle. As Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores, all three were able to use positions within the orbit of the Sun King to advance their modern ideas about the world.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/san-francisco-calamity
title: Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
uri: Eyewitness-Accounts-of-the-1906-San-Francisco-Earthquake
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/san-francisco-calamity
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/san-francisco-calamity/calamity-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The heart of this book is the sharp and disjointed accounts of survivors, their experience not yet shorn of its surprise.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons
title: Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons
uri: Medieval-Illustrations-of-Bonnacons
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/bonnacons/bonnacon-thumb-3.jpg" /></div><p>To ward off attackers this mythical animal was said to expel excrement with a devastating explosive force.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/denishawn-dance-film
title: Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
uri: Denishawn-Dance-Film-(ca-1916)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/denishawn-dance-film
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/denishawn-dance-film/denishawn-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This silent picture offers a glimpse into the early activities of the Denishawn dance school.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/raul-grigera-black-dandy-of-buenos-aires
title: The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires: Racial Fictions and the Search for Raúl Grigera
uri: The-Black-Dandy-of-Buenos-Aires-Racial-Fictions-and-the-Search-for-Ra
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/raul-grigera-black-dandy-of-buenos-aires
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/raul-grigera/raul-grigera-feature.jpg" /></div><p>A mysterious staple of Buenos Aires nightlife in the 1910s and 20s, Raúl Grigera was an audacious Afro-Argentine dandy, an eccentric bohemian icon, a man who called himself <i>el murciélago</i> (the bat). Paulina L. Alberto examines the racial stories told by photographs, comic strips, and newspaper articles about a person many knew only as “el negro Raúl”, searching for the life behind the legend.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-adventure
title: In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)
uri: In-the-Mind-of-Marie-A-Haunting-Encounter-in-the-Gardens-of-Versaille
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-adventure
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/an-adventure/trianon-thumb-1.jpg" /></div><p>Time travel with a hairpin twist: two women land in the psyche of Marie Antoinette in 1792, while she is thinking about 1789.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-23
title: The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
uri: 2023-06-07-The-Launch-of-Our-Mid-Year-Fundraiser
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/06/launch-of-mid-year-fundraiser-june-23
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Machines.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune
title: Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune
uri: Unidentified-Floating-Object-Edo-Images-of-Utsuro-bune
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/utsuro-bune/utsuro-bune-manjudo-crop.jpeg" /></div><p>Was an alien woman really cast back into the sea after surfacing on the coast of Japan in 1803?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/body-as-house-diagram
uri: My-Body-is-a-Temple-Four-Story-House-Analogical-Diagram-from-Tobias-C
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/body-as-house-diagram
title:
My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/body-as-house-diagram/homebody-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In this Hebrew medical diagram, the human body is mapped onto a house: the stomach becomes a kitchen; the lungs, latticed windows. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonder-and-pleasure-in-the-oude-doolhof-of-amsterdam
title: Wonder and Pleasure in the Oude Doolhof of Amsterdam
uri: Wonder-and-Pleasure-in-the-Oude-Doolhof-of-Amsterdam
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/wonder-and-pleasure-in-the-oude-doolhof-of-amsterdam
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/oude-doolhof/doolhof-featured-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>For almost 250 years, a mysterious pleasure park sat on the banks of Amsterdam&#39;s canals. Angela Vanhaelen leads us on a tour of the bawdy fountains, disorienting maze, and mechanical androids in the Oude Doolhof — an attraction that mingled pagan, protestant, and imperial desires. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comic-natural-history
title: The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comic-natural-history
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/comic-natural-history/stephens-natural-history-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>These caricatures of well-known Philadelphians transpose human heads onto animal forms. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fancy-turning
title: Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)
uri: Specimens-of-Fancy-Turning-(1869)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fancy-turning
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fancy-turning/lathe-patterns-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Thirty albumen silver prints of designs created through ornamental lathework. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-of-buggs
title: “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
uri: Those-Disturbers-of-my-Rest-The-First-Treatise-on-Bedbugs-(1730
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-of-buggs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/treatise-of-buggs/buggs-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Written by an exterminator, this treatise wanders into a surprising mode: one inflected not by disgust, but rather coy wonder and begrudging awe.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/radioactive-fictions
title: Radioactive Fictions: Marie Corelli and the Omnipotence of Thoughts
uri: Radioactive-Fictions-Marie-Corelli-and-the-Omnipotence-of-Thoughts
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/radioactive-fictions
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/radioactive-fictions/radium-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Outselling books by Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in their day, Marie Corelli’s occult romance novels brim with fantasies of telepathy, mesmerism, and radioactivity. Steven Connor revisits <i>The Life Everlasting</i> (1911), where the recent discovery of radium shapes the mechanics of phantasmal machines and psychic forces able to pass through all impediments.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/smillie-smithsonian
title: The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
uri: The-Department-of-Preparation-Thomas-Smillie-s-Photographic-Survey
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/smillie-smithsonian
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/smillie-smithsonian/smillie-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A survey of the Smithsonian by the first curator of photography in the United States. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-warriors
title: Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)
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url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-warriors
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hokusai-warriors/hokusai-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>This book by Hokusai assembles images of famous Japanese and Chinese warriors, both historical and legendary.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/raman-sea
title: A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)
uri: A-Distinct-Phenomenon-in-Itself-C-V-Raman-s-Discovery-of-Why-the
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/raman-sea
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/raman-sea/raman-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>On a voyage from England to Bombay, C. V. Raman penned a short paper that forever changed how we see the sea. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/travelling-tales
title: Travelling Tales: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah and the Animal Fable
uri: Travelling-Tales-Kalīlah-wa-Dimnah-and-the-Animal-Fable
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/travelling-tales
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/travelling-tales/k-and-d-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Influencing numerous later animal tales told around the world, the 8th-century Arabic fables of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s <em>Kalīlah wa-Dimnah</em> also inspired a rich visual tradition of illustration: jackals on trial, airborne turtles, and unlikely alliances between species. Marina Warner follows these stories as they wander and change across time and place, celebrating their sharp political observation and stimulating mix of humour, earnesty, and melancholy. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/madame-b-album
title: The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)
uri: The-Madame-B-Album-(ca-1870s)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/madame-b-album
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/madame-b-album/madame-b-album-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A leatherbound volume of some hundred photocollages, featuring elaborate, fantastical watercolour settings for photographic portraits of friends, family, and pets.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arbeid-van-mars
title: The Works of Mars (1671)
uri: The-Works-of-Mars-(1671)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arbeid-van-mars
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/arbeid-van-mars/arbeid-van-mars-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Manesson’s book encompasses theories of fortifications from their origins in designs developed in the sixteenth century by Michelangelo.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/history-of-the-negro-race-in-america
title: George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in America (1882–83)
uri: George-Washington-Williams-History-of-the-Negro-Race-in-America-(18
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/history-of-the-negro-race-in-america
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/history-of-the-negro-race-in-america/williams-history-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A work of millennial scope by a self-taught African-American historian. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/liquid-bewitchment
title: Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850
uri: Liquid-Bewitchment-Gin-Drinking-in-England-1700-1850
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/liquid-bewitchment
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/liquid-bewitchment/gin-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The introduction of gin to England was a delirious and deleterious affair, as tipplers reported a range of effects: loss of reason, frenzy, madness, joy, and death. With the help of prints by George Cruikshank, William Hogarth, and others, James Brown enters the architecture of intoxication — dram shops, gin halls, barbershops — exploring the spaces that catered to pleasure or evil, depending who you asked.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/selection-of-whisk-ferns
title: A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)
uri: A-Careful-Selection-of-Whisk-Ferns-(1837)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/selection-of-whisk-ferns
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/selection-of-whisk-ferns/seisenmatsuranfv2fuka-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Curious two-volume illustrated book on bonsai which dispensed not only with the vessels but with the trees themselves. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fixed-stars
title: Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)
uri: Behold-the-Nebulous-Smear-Abd-al-Rahmān-al-Sūfī-s-Illustrated
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fixed-stars
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fixed-stars/fixed-stars-thumb.JPEG" /></div><p>The greatest astronomical work of its age, this Arabic book represents each constellation twice: once from below and once from above. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dictionary-of-modern-slang
title: A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)
uri: A-Dictionary-of-Modern-Slang-Cant-and-Vulgar-Words-(1860)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dictionary-of-modern-slang
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dictionary-of-modern-slang/dictionary-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This Victorian dictionary collects the cant of thieves, the slang of costermongers, and many other argots. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/free-speech-and-bad-meats
title: Free Speech and Bad Meats: The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton’s Areopagitica
uri: Free-Speech-and-Bad-Meats-The-Domestic-Labour-of-Reading-in-Milton
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/free-speech-and-bad-meats
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/free-speech-and-bad-meats/milton-psyche-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Does a healthy intellectual culture resemble a battlefield or a kitchen? Revisiting Milton’s <i>Areopagitica</i>, a tract often championed by today’s free speech absolutists, Katie Kadue finds a debt to the work of early modern housewives. In their labours to preserve food and transform it into wholesome cuisine, Milton saw an analogue for how the reading public might digest books — good and bad alike — into nourishing ideas.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shadows
title: Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)
uri: Charles-H-Bennett-s-Shadows-(ca-1856)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shadows
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/shadows/42630568-edit-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Illustrations that employ a magic-lantern conceit: the shadow thrown by a spotlit individual can reveal her inner character. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/10/sources-and-rights-labelling-overhaul
title: The Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul
uri: The-Presentation-of-Sources-and-Rights-Labelling-Gets-a-Big-Overhaul
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/10/sources-and-rights-labelling-overhaul
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2023/sources-and-rights-labelling-overhaul/sources-screenshot.jpg" /></div><p>Details of a whole raft of important changes aimed at improving how we communicate rights labelling and championing those institutions openly sharing public domain works.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kollwitz-peasants-war
title: Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
uri: Käthe-Kollwitz-s-Peasants-War-Series-(ca-1901-1908)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kollwitz-peasants-war
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kollwitz-peasants-war/Kollwitz-Peasants-War-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Käthe Kollwitz&#39;s etchings based on the German Peasants’ War and a mysterious woman called Black Anna. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pantographia
title: Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
uri: Pantographia-A-Specimen-Book-of-All-the-Alphabets-Known-on-Earth-(179
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pantographia
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/pantographia/pantographia-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Containing 405 alphabet specimens from 164 languages, the book is a treasure chest for the epigraphical imagination.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-occult-philosophy
title: Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy
uri: Marked-by-Stars-Agrippa-s-Occult-Philosophy
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-occult-philosophy
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/stamped-by-harmonic-stars/agrippa-feature-2.jpg" /></div><p>Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and numbers, arranged correctly, can harness the planets’ powers. Anthony Grafton explores the Renaissance polymath’s occult insights into the structure of the universe, discovering a path that leads both upward and downward: up toward complete knowledge of God, and down into every order of being on earth. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aftershock-of-the-new
title: Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)
uri: 2023-10-17-
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aftershock-of-the-new
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/aftershock-of-the-new/tokyo-views-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A collection of prints by eight artists envisioning a new Tokyo.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fire-tests-with-textiles
title: Your Flannelette Cure: Fire Tests with Textiles (1910)
uri: Your-Flannelette-Cure-Fire-Tests-with-Textiles-(1910)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fire-tests-with-textiles
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/fire-tests-with-textiles/dress-on-fire-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Photographs of fire tests carried out at the turn of the century to keep women’s clothing from catching on fire.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-halloween
title: A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)
uri: A-Melting-Cauldron-The-Book-of-Hallowe-en-(1919)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-halloween
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/the-book-of-halloween/book-of-halloween-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>The first book-length history of Halloween, written when the author was a mere twenty-six years old. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/silent-treatment
title: The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement’s Unlikely Origins
uri: The-Silent-Treatment-Solitary-Confinement-s-Unlikely-Origins
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/silent-treatment
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/silent-treatment/solitary-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Characterised today by the noise of banging, buzzers, and the cries of inmates, solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker ideas about the redemptive power of silence, envisioned as a humane alternative to the punitive violence of late-18th century jails. Revisiting Pennsylvania’s Eastern State Penitentiary, Jane Brox discovers the spiritual origins and reformist ambitions of solitary’s early advocates, and sees their supposedly progressive desires come to ruin by the 20th century.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ikkyu-in-hell
title: Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)
uri: Ikkyū-in-Hell-Skeletons-(1692)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ikkyu-in-hell
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/ikkyu-in-hell/skeletons-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by a wine and women–loving Zen monk.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe
title: Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
uri: Divide-and-Concur-A-Radical-Plan-for-Peace-in-Europe-(1920)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/unionization-of-central-europe/PJM_2104-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A map and pamphlet that proposes dividing Central Europe into 24 sector-shaped cantons, among other eccentric reforms aimed at peace.  </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/11/54-new-prints-and-now-free-shipping!
title: 54 New Prints — And Now Free Shipping!
uri: 54-New-Prints-And-Now-Free-Shipping
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/11/54-new-prints-and-now-free-shipping!
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2023/new-nov-prints-23-grid-2.jpg" /></div><p>A big batch of new prints is added to our online shop — and also free shipping, and discounts on multiple orders. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-reluctant-levitator
title: The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila’s Humble Raptures
uri: The-Reluctant-Levitator-Teresa-of-Avila-s-Humble-Raptures
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-reluctant-levitator
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-reluctant-levitator/sargent-avila-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Levitation was the last thing Teresa of Avila wanted. It drew the wrong kind of attention and embarrassed her in public. She tried to remain grounded, clinging to furniture when the weightlessness set in, and then suddenly, it stopped for good. Carlos Eire reads Teresa&#39;s autobiographic <em>Vida</em> and finds the 16th-century saint complaining to God about the aethrobatic miracles that he forced her to endure. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frankenstein-monster-reading-list
title: Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein&#39;s Monster
uri: Humanity-101-The-Syllabus-of-Frankenstein-s-Monster
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frankenstein-monster-reading-list
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/frankenstein-monster-reading-list/Frontispiece_to_Frankenstein_1831-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>An examination of the three books that Frankenstein&#39;s monster reads to educate himself about human life. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/paper-lantern-catalogue
title: Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)
uri: Chromolithographs-of-Paper-Lanterns-(ca-1880)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/paper-lantern-catalogue
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/paper-lantern-catalogue/DP110890-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>19th-century German chromolithographs of paper lanterns, the kind used to celebrate St. Martin&#39;s Day. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-his-desire
title: Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)
uri: Modernity-in-the-Rainforest-Man-and-his-Desire-(1917)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/man-and-his-desire
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/man-and-his-desire/desire-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Handmade book showing Paul Claudel&#39;s scenario, with illustrations by Audrey Parr and Hélène Hoppenot, for Darius Milhaud&#39;s ballet <em>L&#39;homme et son desir</em>.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coney-island-at-night
title: Coney Island at Night (1905)
uri: Coney-Island-at-Night-(1905)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/coney-island-at-night
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//coney-island-at-night/coney-island-at-night-thumb.png" /></div><p>Edison Studios film showing the lights of Luna Park and Dreamland during the peak of the famed New York amusement district.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cliche-verre-and-friendship-in-19th-century-france
title: Cliché-Verre and Friendship in 19th-Century France
uri: Cliché-Verre-and-Friendship-in-19th-Century-France
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cliche-verre-and-friendship-in-19th-century-france
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/cliche-verre-and-friendship-in-19th-century-france/cv-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In the 1850s, as photography took its first steps toward commercial reproducibility, a more intimate use for light-sensitive plates briefly bloomed. It had a few names: heliographic drawing, photographic autography, or, as it is best known today, cliché-verre. Miya Tokumitsu takes us to the towns and forests of France where a group of friends began making marks on photographic plates, and finds their camaraderie cohere in lyrical arrangements of topography and light.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nuuttipukki
title: Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
uri: Season-s-Bleatings-Finnish-Photographs-of-the-Nuuttipukki-(1928)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nuuttipukki
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/nuuttipukki/nuuttipukki-thumb.jpeg
" /></div><p>Photographs of <em>nuuttipukit</em>: Finns who dressed as goats in order to procure beer and leftovers after Christmas.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/christmas-garland
title: Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)
uri: Wreathed-in-Pastiche-Max-Beerbohm-s-Christmas-Garland-(1912)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/christmas-garland
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/christmas-garland/cg-thumb2.jpg" /></div><p>A festive collection of literary parody by the “incomparable” Max Beerbohm. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/11/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2023
title: The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
uri: The-Launch-of-Our-End-of-Year-Fundraiser-copy
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/11/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2023
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2019/fundraiser-launch/postcards.jpg" /></div><p>Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be The Heavens.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes
title: Rhapsodies in Blue: Anna Atkins’ Cyanotypes
uri: Rhapsodies-in-Blue-Anna-Atkins-Cyanotypes
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/anna-atkins-cyanotypes/anna-atkins-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In an era when the Enlightenment’s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world’s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade beginning in 1843, that captured algal forms in startling blue-and-white silhouettes. Paige Hirschey situates Atkins’ efforts among her naturalist peers, discovering a form of illustration that, rather than exhibit an artist’s mastery over nature, allowed specimens to “illustrate” themselves. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/recueil-de-la-diversite-des-habits
uri: The-World-s-First-Costume-Book-François-Desprez-s-Collection-of-Vari
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/recueil-de-la-diversite-des-habits
title:
The World&#39;s First Costume Book: François Desprez&#39;s Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/recueil-de-la-diversite-des-habits/cyclops-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game
title: The Landlord&#39;s Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly&#39;s Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
uri: The-Landlord-s-Game-Lizzie-Magie-and-Monopoly-s-Anti-Capitalist-Origi
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/lizzie-magie-landlords-game/Landlords_Game_1906_image_courtesy_of_T_Forsyth_owner_of_the_registered_trademark_2015111-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2023
title: Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2023
uri: Top-10-Most-Read-Pieces-from-2023
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2023/12/top-10-most-read-pieces-from-2023
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2023/top-10-2023-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>From gin-drinking to cities plunging over clifftops, a rundown of the ten most read pieces we published this year.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024
title: Happy Public Domain Day 2024!
uri: Happy-Public-Domain-Day-2024
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//blog/2024/PD-in-2024.jpg" /></div><p>Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here&#39;s our highlights for 2024.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/books-fatal-to-their-authors
title: Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895)
uri: Books-Fatal-to-Their-Authors-(1895)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/books-fatal-to-their-authors
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/books-fatal-to-their-authors/booksfataltothei00ditc_0001_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>This strange volume puts the lie to Ditchfield’s title: tyrants, not books, kill authors.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic
title: Masters of the Ice: Charles Rabot’s Arctic Photographs (ca. 1881)
uri: Masters-of-the-Ice-Charles-Rabot-s-Arctic-Photographs-(ca-1881)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/charles-rabot/NVE_RABOT_0303_thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A self-styled glaciologist, Rabot undertook four expeditions to the Arctic in his lifetime, taking stunning photographs that capture an abiding sense of stillness. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel
title: Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
uri: Liberal-Visions-and-Boring-Machines-The-Early-History-of-the-Channel
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel/chunnel-feature.jpg" /></div><p>More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into the history of this submarine link, and finds a still-relevant story about the cosmopolitan hopes and isolationist panic surrounding liberal internationalism.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-berkeleys-discovery
title: The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley&#39;s Discovery (1889)
uri: The-Afterimage-of-Death-Dr-Berkeley-s-Discovery-(1889)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-berkeleys-discovery
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/dr-berkeleys-discovery/berkeley-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>A science fiction novel about optography — the scientific belief that images could be recovered from the eyes and brains of the dead.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumanaki-kage
title: Clear Shadows (1867)
uri: Clear-Shadows-(1867)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kumanaki-kage
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/kumanaki-kage/2013_866_06_crd-edit-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A compilation of silhouette portraits by the artist Ochiai Yoshiiku (1833–1904), which includes short biographies, picture riddles, and poems.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/steamboat-willie
title: As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)
uri: As-Loud-as-a-Mouse-Mickey-s-Sonic-Debut-in-Steamboat-Willie-(1928)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/steamboat-willie
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/steamboat-willie/mickey-mouse-thumb-1.jpg" /></div><p>In the public domain at last, <em>Steamboat Willie</em> debuted both Mickey Mouse and cartoon synchronised sound to a widespread audience.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/through-the-cheval-glass
title: Through the Cheval Glass: Reproduction in the Photographs of Clementina Hawarden
uri: Through-the-Cheval-Glass-Reproduction-in-the-Photographs-of-Clementin
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/through-the-cheval-glass
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/through-the-cheval-glass/Hawarden-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Soon after Clementina Hawarden began taking photographs in the mid-19th century, her eye caught on doubles, reflections, her daughters glimpsed in the mirror. Stassa Edwards examines the role that reproduction — photographic, biological — plays in this oeuvre, and searches for the only person not captured clearly: Hawarden herself.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blackwork
title: Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints
uri: Paper-Gems-Early-Modern-Blackwork-Prints
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/blackwork
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/blackwork/blackwork-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Prints made using a technique known as blackwork which flourished from the 1580s to the 1620s.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gotham-attucks
title: Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
uri: Sheet-Music-Covers-for-the-Gotham-Attucks-Company-ca-1905-1911
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gotham-attucks
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/gotham-attucks/gotham-attucks-thumb-1.jpeg" /></div><p>Beginning in 1905, one star-studded song-publishing company would push the aesthetic limits of how Black popular music was shown to the public.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-lady-nicotine
title: Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie&#39;s My Lady Nicotine (1896)
uri: Never-again-Land-J-M-Barrie-s-My-Lady-Nicotine-(1896)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-lady-nicotine
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/my-lady-nicotine/Barrie-nicotine-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A genre-defying work by the creator of Peter Pan about the pleasures of smoking.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eugene-francois-vidocq-and-the-birth-of-the-detective
title: Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective
uri: Eugène-François-Vidocq-and-the-Birth-of-the-Detective
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/eugene-francois-vidocq-and-the-birth-of-the-detective
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/eugene-francois-vidocq-and-the-birth-of-the-detective/vidocq-home-feature.jpg" /></div><p>According to his memoirs, Eugène-François Vidocq escaped from more than twenty prisons (sometimes dressed as a nun). Working on the other side of the law, he apprehended some 4000 criminals with a team of plainclothes agents. He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts — and, when he was later fired, the first private detective agency. He was one the fathers of modern criminology and had a rap sheet longer than his very tall tales. Who was Vidocq? Daisy Sainsbury investigates.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/junghuhn-java-album
title: Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)
uri: Lithographs-from-Franz-Wilhelm-Junghuhn-s-Java-Album-(1854)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/junghuhn-java-album
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/junghuhn-java-album/java-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Eleven lithographs of Java from drawings by an eccentric Dutch colonial explorer who believed elevation equals greatness.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/millions-of-cats
title: Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
uri: Unwashed-Furry-Masses-Wanda-Gág-s-Millions-of-Cats-(1928)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/millions-of-cats
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/millions-of-cats/MillionsofCatsLC_0000-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>The oldest American children&#39;s book still in print, Wanda Gág&#39;s classic opens onto surprisingly political themes.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-substantiality-of-spirit
title: “The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side
uri: The-Substantiality-of-Spirit-Georgiana-Houghton-s-Pictures-fr
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-substantiality-of-spirit
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/the-substantiality-of-spirit/houghton-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>When Georgiana Houghton first exhibited her paintings at a London gallery in 1871, their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the rise of abstract art decades later. But there was little intentionally abstract about these images: Houghton painted entities she met in the spirit regions. Viewing her works through the prism of friendship, loss, and faith, Jennifer Higgie turns overdue attention on an artist neglected by historians, a visionary who believed that death was not the end, merely a new distance to overcome.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints
title: Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
uri: Tales-of-the-Catfish-God-Earthquakes-in-Japanese-Woodblock-Prints-(18
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/catfish-thumb-2.jpeg" /></div><p>A type of woodblock print known as <em>namazu-e</em>, these images involve a myth that earthquakes were caused by the movements of a great catfish.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo
uri: The-Age-of-Impoliteness-Galateo-or-A-Treatise-on-Politeness-and-Del
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo
title:
The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/galateo/galateo-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An English translation of an influential 16th-century Italian etiquette guide. Its proposition is simple but difficult to get right: politeness is the art of pleasing others.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/animated-putty
title: I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)
uri: I-Also-Am-Formed-Out-of-the-Clay-Animated-Putty-(1911)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/animated-putty
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/animated-putty/putty-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>Britain&#39;s first clay animation film imagines a malleable substance spontaneously giving rise to manifold forms.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/merian-metamorphosis
title: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
uri: Maria-Sibylla-Merian-s-Metamorphosis-Insectorum-Surinamensium-(1705)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/merian-metamorphosis
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/merian-metamorphosis/Merian_Metamorphosis_00008-detail-5.jpg" /></div><p>Set of spectacular engravings of insects and their floral abodes — one of the first natural histories of Suriname.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar
title: From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
uri: From-Snowdrop-to-Nightjar-Robert-Marsham-s-Indications-of-Spring
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar/marsham-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>What can we learn from observing the progression of spring — a hawthorn’s first flowering, the return of birdsong on a particular day? Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores the lifelong calendrical project of Robert Marsham, the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain&#39;s first phenologist.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos
title: The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
uri: The-Art-of-Sutherland-Macdonald-Victorian-England-s-Michelangelo
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos/sutherland-macdonald-tattoos-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Photographs of tattoos by Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s first professional tattoo artist.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wierix-flemish-proverbs
title: Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)
uri: Flemish-Proverbs-by-Jan-Wierix-(ca-1568)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wierix-flemish-proverbs
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/wierix-flemish-proverbs/RP-P-1939-396-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Haunted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, these visualisations of proverbs look backward to uncertain origins.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabbit-tales
title: Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
uri: Tom-Seidmann-Freud-s-Book-of-Hare-Stories-(1924)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabbit-tales
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/rabbit-tales/rabbit-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An uncanny collection of folk tales written by Sigmund Freud’s niece.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tom-seidmann-freud-hare-tales
title: Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
uri: 2024-03-20-Tom-Seidmann-Freud-s-Book-of-Hare-Stories-(1924)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tom-seidmann-freud-hare-tales
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/rabbit-tales/rabbit-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>An uncanny collection of folk tales written and illustrated by Sigmund Freud’s niece.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/little-boney
title: Little Boney: James Gillray and Napoleon’s Fragile Masculinity
uri: Little-Boney-James-Gillray-and-Napoleon-s-Fragile-Masculinity
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/little-boney
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/little-boney/napoleon-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>Of all the caricatures of Napoleon Bonaparte, representations of the French emperor as a miniscule megalomaniac continue to haunt the historical imagination to an unparalleled degree. Peter W. Walker searches for the origins of “Little Boney” in the early 19th-century caricatures of James Gillray, the English illustrator who took Napoleon down a peg by diminishing his reputation and scale to the point of absurdity.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hippolyte-hodeau-trench-art
title: A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
uri: A-Family-Tree-Hippolyte-Hodeau-s-Trench-Art-(ca-1917)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hippolyte-hodeau-trench-art
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/hippolyte-hodeau-trench-art/Leaves-4.jpg" /></div><p>A form of WWI trench art in which soldiers carved names and images into leaves.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/passio-verbigenae
title: Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)
uri: Grotesqueries-at-Gethsemane-Marcus-Gheeraerts-Passio-Verbigenae-(c
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/passio-verbigenae
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/passio-verbigenae/passio-feature.jpg" /></div><p>A Passion series in which ornamental motifs invade the Christ’s narrative.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edith-wharton-italian-villas
title: Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
uri: Edith-Wharton-s-Italian-Villas-and-their-Gardens-(1904)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edith-wharton-italian-villas
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/edith-wharton-italian-villas/wharton-villas-thumb-1.jpeg" /></div><p>A guide to Italian landscape architecture by Edith Wharton, written to accompany colourful images of villas by Maxfield Parrish.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mimesis-expression-construction
title: [Door creaks open. Footsteps]: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
uri: Mimesis-Expression-Construction-Fredric-Jameson-s-Seminar-on-Aest
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mimesis-expression-construction
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/mimesis-expression-construction/5448914830_cc288c2266_o.jpg" /></div><p>By meticulously translating his recordings of Jameson’s seminars into the theatrical idiom of the stage script, ​​Octavian Esanu asks, playfully and tenderly, if we can see pedagogy as performance? Teaching and learning, about art — as a work of art?</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/windows-onto-history
title: Windows Onto History: The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)
uri: Windows-Onto-History-The-Defenestrations-of-Prague-(1419-1997)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/windows-onto-history
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/windows-onto-history/windows-feature.jpg" /></div><p>Throwing people out of windows (or <em>defenestrating</em> them, as the Latin has it) is an act imbued with longstanding political significance in Prague. From the Hussite revolt in the late Middle Ages through the Thirty Years’ War to modern instances of “autodefenestration”, Thom Sliwowski finds a national shibboleth imbued with ritual efficacy.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/weird-islands
title: Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)
uri: Distortions-and-Grimaces-Jean-de-Bosschère-s-Weird-Islands-(1921)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/weird-islands
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/weird-islands/weird-islands-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A fantasia of travellers and archipelago dwellers, illustrated in a chimerical fashion by the author. </p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany
title: Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
uri: Signs-and-Wonders-Celestial-Phenomena-in-16th-Century-Germany
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/celestial-phenomena-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>From the mid-sixteenth century, broadsheets depicting wondrous, celestial events circulated widely across the Holy Roman Empire against the backdrop of Reformation.</p>


feed_id: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry
title: Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)
uri: Annie-Besant-and-Charles-Leadbeater-s-Occult-Chemistry-(1908)
url: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry
content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//collections/occult-chemistry/occult-chemistry-thumb.jpeg" /></div><p>A chemistry treatise that weds the hard sciences with theosophical insight, making a microscope of the psychic mind.</p>


title: Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce
uri: Pseudo-Boccaccio-Yiddish-Pulp-Fiction-and-the-Man-Who-Ripped-Off-Joy
feed_id:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce

url:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce

content:
<div><img src="https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net//essays/pseudo-boccaccio/pseudo-b-thumb.jpg" /></div><p>In 1927, a pair of lurid “translations” appeared in English, marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio and illustrated with supposedly new works by Aubrey Beardsley. Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origin of these fakes, in which illicit sex begets terrible violence, and uncover a story involving pseudotranslation, Yiddish <i>shund</i> literature, and the piracy king of literary modernism, Samuel Roth.</p>


