Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
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Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913), a book of Turkish folk stories collected by Hungarian-born linguist Ignác Kúnos, with illustrations by Hungarian illustrator Willy Pogany: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/forty-four-turkish-fairy-tales-1913
Filippo Balbi, Testa Anatomica, 1854.
More on this unique Arcimboldo-esque painting here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/testa-anatomica @ExploreWellcome
True to the ideas held within — that blue light is bearer of unique and special properties — The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight (1877) is printed entirely with blue ink on blue paper: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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If you like what we do, and want to see it continue, then please do lend your support. Available to donors, our themed postcard packs: upcoming theme on... SOIL. (Shown here a past pack, themed on Light)
Diagram showing what various lunar eclipses would look like with differently shaped Earths. Johannes Buno, ca. 1711.⠀
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Featured in the German theologian and educator's Universal Geography. Buy a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/four-diagrams-of-solar-eclipses/
. @James_J_Conway on Magnus Hirschfeld and his pioneering 1904 study of queer Berlin: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/out-on-the-town
"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o... #OTD
#OnThisDay, Europe witnessed its largest meteorite fall in recorded history, over the Ukrainian village of Knjahynja. This drawing of the event was published by Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger. More meteors and comets in art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #OTD
For #WorldOceansDay today, stunning colour lithographs from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893), created from the author's original watercolour sketches: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...
How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? Here's some highlights: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for
