Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865. Buy as a print here: More images of Aurora Borealis in our post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World” https://buff.ly/38dxgft image
Over 150 yrs ago, George Perkins Marsh urged his readers to consider the disastrous environmental effects of deforestation, over-mining, and other human actions. Read more about this remarkable thinker and his extraordinary book, Man and Nature (1864) image
From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road. ⠀⁠ Available as a print from our online shop — #caturday image
To raise money for the project we sell beautiful prints through our online shop. Superb archival quality. Unframed or framed ready to hang. Explore our collection of 900+ images here: And see our gift cards here: image
Adorn your body and coffee in PDR goodness!!! We’ve just added 8 new T-shirts (now 100% organic cotton) and 13 new mugs to our online shop. T-shirts: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/t-shirts/ Mugs: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/mugs/
Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — https://publicdomainreview.org/coll.../atlas-des-champignons image
Triptych by Kawanabe Kyōsai depicting a battle of frogs, 1864. ⠀ Kyōsai is considered both Japan’s first political caricaturist and one of the first authors of a manga magazine (Eshunbun Nipponchi). ⠀ Prints to buy here: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/kawanabe-kyosai
One of the first books to be banned and burnt in the New World was by an ancestor of the author Thomas Pynchon. More in our essay by Daniel Crown “The Price of Suffering”: image
Illustration by Ivan Bilibin for an 1899 edition of the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful. One of two Bilibin illustrations from the tale available to buy as prints from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/ivan-bilibin image
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Marcel #Proust (who died #onthisday in 1922) would time and again turn to the visual arts. Explore here the artworks he mentions including paintings by Giotto, Botticelli and Poussin: #OTD image