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Double page spread from a 16th-century pattern book for scribes created by Gregorius Bock. See more here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/16t…

Images from Helen Haiman Joseph’s *A Book of Marionettes* (1920), the first comprehensive history of marionette artistry in the English language: publicdomainreview.org/collection/boo…

Embroiled in debates about the Indigenist aesthetic movement, Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) was a set of drawing workbooks featuring motifs taken from Indigenous ceramics and textiles: publicdomainreview.org/collection/per…

“We are so drunken and dulled by horror” — Eyewitness accounts of the San Francisco earthquake from Charles Morris' The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire (1906) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/san…

For #NationalPigeonDay, photographs taken by Dr Julius Neubronner’s ingenious "pigeon camera", circa 1908. More pics, and the story, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-…

Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/kar… #otd

Double birthday salutations to W. B. Yeats + Fernando Pessoa — both fascinated by the occult, both with a penchant for heteronyms and both appearing in @WithEdSimon's essay on the ouija board writings of Pearl Curran (AKA Patience Worth): publicdomainreview.org/essay/ghostwri… #onthisday #otd

For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/sch…

First page of "Dialogue of Frederic Ruysch and his Mummies", a short skit by the great Italian writer Giacomo Leopardi, who died today in 1837 (aged just 38). Leopardi's subject here is a real life physician renowned for his macabre anatomical displays: buff.ly/2Tu5t7w

Claire Hall explores the idea of eternal recurrence in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from Pythagorean metempsychosis to Stoic predictions about a cosmological reset: publicdomainreview.org/essay/same-as-…

In need of a last minute #FathersDay gift? We do "gift cards" for our online prints shop. It allows you to pre-pay for print and then your recipient to choose the image they’d like: publicdomainreview.org/shop/gift-card…

A Gothic book of hours for the industrial age, the pages of this 1886 prayer book were not printed, but rather woven on the Jacquard loom — a proto-computer programmed with more than 100,000 punch cards: publicdomainreview.org/collection/lyo…

#SundayReads: “Imagining an Idle Countess” in which Matthew Mullane revisits George Wightwick’s Romantic architectural world history The Palace of Architecture (1840) — publicdomainreview.org/essay/imaginin…

#OnThisDay in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took this series of images of a racehorse in motion. A former governor of California reportedly had bet on whether all the hooves were airborne at once, and hired Muybridge to settle the debate: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the… #OTD

The Music of the Waters (1888), Laura Alexandrine Smith’s compilation of #seashanties from around the world, including music, words, and ethnographic description of their provenance and performance: publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea…

Intaglio print from William Blake’s For the Children: The Gates of Paradise (1787-93). One of 8 postcards on theme of DESIRE we'll send to all Friends of PDR signed up by June 25th, as part of our mid-year fundraiser. One-off donations also v welcome! publicdomainreview.org/support/

A happy #Bloomsday to all! Hear Joyce reading from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in two rare recordings from the 1920s: publicdomainreview.org/collection/jam… #Bloomsday2023

Guess the letter. From a 17th-century German book on the art of writing. A great range of different styles are represented seemingly increasing in complexity, and also illegibility, as the book goes on: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the…

#Bloomsday reading: The late Frank Delaney's 2012 essay "Seeing Joyce" in which he explores the visual qualities in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake... publicdomainreview.org/essay/seeing-j… #Bloomsday2022 Pictured: James Joyce's own sketch of "Poldy" (Leopold Bloom) from his notes.

Illustrations from The Vessels of Hermes (ca. 1700), an alchemical album from the Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the…