One of a great series of drawings depicting balloonfish and pufferfish made during the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. More here: https://t.co/Qm27fPzl2k pic.twitter.com/U965XQ4Dxe
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) March 4, 2020
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on: March 04, 2020 at 11:32AM
Illustration from Eskimo Folktales (1921), a book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen. More here: https://t.co/C9h7voRZhn pic.twitter.com/pgZ1bO98qP
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 17, 2019
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on: December 17, 2019 at 02:35PM
Wanderings of a Comet, by J. J. Grandville, 1844.
Buy print here: https://t.co/VyuNo0Sq8M
No.2 of our Top 10 best-selling prints. See our full selection here: https://t.co/1gAB1Z4QUn pic.twitter.com/uDvZ3FFMVg
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 2, 2019
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on: December 02, 2019 at 02:19PM
Fireworks at the Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858.
Available to buy as a print in our shop: https://t.co/PrQnTa79Rv #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks pic.twitter.com/Df5XGP4NYL
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) November 5, 2019
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on: November 05, 2019 at 02:23PM
Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://t.co/FEoQk47JFZ pic.twitter.com/PUfJXgkc5c
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) November 4, 2019
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on: November 04, 2019 at 02:06PM
#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: https://t.co/Mn0lE0XVyl #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe pic.twitter.com/uoWhGWcxAA
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) October 7, 2019
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on: October 07, 2019 at 11:19AM
Revenge of the Fish.
More topsy-turvy 18th-century woodcuts here: https://t.co/RfHilLttgA pic.twitter.com/54ZCoVm44u
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) September 12, 2019
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on: September 12, 2019 at 08:49AM
Illustration by English artist Aubrey Beardsley — born #onthisday in 1872 — depicting a baby being born from the calf of a man, created for an 1894 edition of Lucian's moon fantasy True Story (written in the 2nd century AD) — https://t.co/j8kkxE3quV #otd pic.twitter.com/XDIDBNRS20
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) August 21, 2019
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on: August 21, 2019 at 08:34AM
We’ve spent the day picking highlights from the many centuries of artworks to feature #NotreDame — from its illuminated punctuation of medieval skylines to grainy detailed studies at the birth of photography. See the collection here: https://t.co/ErHSnJgBP3 #Notre_dame_de_Paris pic.twitter.com/BcC9cRhQRM
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) April 16, 2019
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on: April 16, 2019 at 02:09PM
A Way of Flying, from the series Los disparates (The Follies) by Francisco de Goya, who died #onthisday in 1828. Produced 1815–23, it would be the Spanish artist's last major series of prints. See more here: https://t.co/fMZ9XWmumr #OTD pic.twitter.com/BIcar0gRcf
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) April 16, 2019
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on: April 16, 2019 at 08:50AM