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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5h

Eight Shadow Figures (ca. 1842) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cbef4d7d-8dcf-435b-b9f4-4d1566bad9ac

#animals #shadows #hands #ukiyo-e #japan #hiroshige #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 7h

Playful-decorative Work (Watercolour) (1922) by August Klotz, from Bildnerei der Geisteskranken.

Source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/151abe08-08e6-4a9a-a219-914c56b7f297

#art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 10h

Blackwork print of concave lozenge-shaped panel and grotesque figures (ca. 1620–30) by Noël Rouillard.

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6323c6aa-79a0-4ad3-9225-b76aba1bb1cc

#decorative #jewelry #black #ink #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 12h

Blackwork design for goldsmith work featuring a hunter and a fisherman (1612) by Mathais Beitler.

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5ad72413-a919-46f9-9282-639ec281c0e4

#animals #decorative #jewelry #black #bridges #ink #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

Illustration by M. F. Lewis, from Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902).

Source: @cornelluniversity.bsky.social‬ / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7e2a2b8f-5e4b-42fa-bc3f-de235d31920f

#nature #botanical #mushrooms #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).

Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/484558fd-ebc3-438b-822b-deb3cf98be5c

#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #pulleys

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 1d

From Joga Pradīpikā (19th century).

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/77884a5a-6f3d-472b-8739-1a06238244c3

#posture #yoga #spirituality #india #exercise #hinduism #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 4d

Novveav Mexiqve Et Californie (1684) by Allain Manesson-Mallet.

Source: @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b663f0b1-16fd-4888-83d2-259e32aa4e59

#maps #calexit #decorative #california #geography #cartouches #territories #labeling #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Illustration by Raoul-Auger Feuillet , from Choregraphie (1701).

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/44d93096-100c-4d8f-9237-464fda6af36a

#music #notation #dance #calligraphy #choreography #ballet #dancing #movement #art

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Cicogna (1904) by Edith Wharton, from Italian Villas and their Gardens.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bf919c85-f26c-4735-bc7c-92b915fc8c27

#grottoes #gardens #mountains #trees #landscapes #italy #architecture #art

Maxfield Parrish illustration of Italian villa

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Tsuba made of iron, braided with yellow and red copper wire and studded with silver and bronze nails. (1916) by Georg Oeder, from Japanische Stichblätter und Schwertzieraten.

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3d0a216f-58f9-40a5-9983-c99909e655c6

#japan

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 5d

Radula of Whelk (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature through Microscope & Camera.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd3038fb-3097-49cc-8712-7f836eb369e1

#radula #feeding #teeth #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

A solar eclipse viewed from a colony (1970s) by Don Davis.

Source: NASA

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c52503cb-57a7-4475-a081-df398943cd9e

#technology #utopias #architecture #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

From Spalding Collection (ca. 1880).

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/14613aa9-eb6e-445c-955f-6e73d2bf7d27

#athletes #philadelphia #uniforms #throwing #movement #baseball #sport #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

Sodium chloride, magnified 60 times (1887–88) by Marinus Pieter Filbri.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8803d5f9-5e3a-45f2-bc93-eddc18c2813c

#micrography #micrographia #photo-micrography #crystals #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

Illustration by Wilhelm Dilich, from Historische Beschreibung der Kindtauf des Fräuleins Elisabeth zu Hessen (1598).

Source: @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social‬

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6e32e1e0-eeb7-482f-ad01-34f0388f5c05

#watercolours #royalty #botanical-art

Illustration of the commemorative events held for Elisabeth of Hessen’s christening.

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 7d

From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).

Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/310c6a7c-1e5d-45d7-93a5-0753d4674579

#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #arabic

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 7d

Poem by Sangi no Takamura (Ono no Takamura) (Detail) (1835) by Katsushika Hokusai.

Source: @metmuseum.org

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/07f7b309-4581-45ac-8817-0a439f9caa8e

#underwater #belgica #bathyspheres #scaphanders #water #waves #antarctica #diving #blue #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 7d

Bonnacon (ca. 1230), from BL Royal MS 12 F XIII.

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a117a3cf-f145-4f69-908f-2b5cf4dc963a

#archery #myth #bestiary #excrement #defecation #smell #legend #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 7d

Facsimile of the Codex Vindobonensis, ca. late 15th or early 16th century (1831–48) by Agostino Aglio, from Antiquities of Mexico.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/62404df9-a7ee-4614-ae16-a51a31e25555

#mayans

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 8d

From Shin-Bijutsukai (1902).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6bd436ec-f36e-4063-830b-c92bd9964fe9

#abstract #japan #patterns #shin-bijutsukai #design #art #publicdomain

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 8d

Illustration by Madame B, from “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s).

Source: @artinstitutechi.bsky.social‬

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a54ef14b-e5c6-4e24-b5bf-c4f14ff27060

#watercolours #collage #arches #churches #design #architecture #art #publicdomain

Collaged page utilising photographs and watercolour

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 8d

Miniature of Jahangir (detail) (ca. 1615–1618) by Bichitr, from St. Petersburg Album.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bcb87dcf-60c4-4ca6-a1a8-f424cdd39dd4

#watercolours #central-asia #royalty #india #costumes #fabric #clothing #gold #sufism

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 8d

Transverse Section of Plant Stem (1909) by Arthur E Smith, from Nature Through Microscope and Camera.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a9a9fa6c-f064-40a3-854b-dc16c9b43454

#anatomy #micrography #microscopes #magnification #botany #cells

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 9d

Crystallized Oxide of Zinc (*Zincum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d7ba183f-affd-4612-83a6-5c3675a3faa0

#minerals #geology #science #rocks #mineralogy

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