'Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty', 1920.

One of several illustrations by the wonderful Virginia Frances Sterrett which we have for sale in our online prints shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…

Front cover to The Cubies’ ABC, an alphabet book published in 1913 devoted to a satirical takedown of Impressionists, Cubists, Futurists, and all other pretenders to the crown of Art. More here: buff.ly/36sCemZ

#OnThisDay in 1811, on a lake’s edge near Potsdam, a 34-yr-old Kleist shot himself dead in a suicide pact with his terminally ill lover. He left behind him just under a decade of intense literary output. Steven Howe explores his first dramatic work: buff.ly/2TxlghC #OTD

.Ross on how a story told by the African American novelist, historian, playwright, and physician William Wells Brown circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad publicdomainreview.org/essay/william-…

From Comparative Osteology (1821–38) with illustrations by the Italian-born German naturalist Edouard Joseph d’Alton, an artist and art history professor whose students included a young Karl Marx. More of his wonderful images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/com…

'The Moguls give to the white owl credit for preserving Jengis Khan, the founder of their empire...'

One of a hundred tales to be found in Anecdotes of Animals (1905): publicdomainreview.org/collection/ane…

The Wanderings of a Comet, from J. J. Grandville's Another World, 1844.

Buy a print of the image, and also others by Grandville, here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…

Read more in our essay 'Grandville, Visions, and Dreams' by Patricia Mainardi here: buff.ly/2DzIPlV

To raise money for the project we sell beautiful archival prints through our online shop. Browse our collection of 800+ images here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…

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Replace these “wireless telegraphs” with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision of 'isolating technology' from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be from today: buff.ly/2V2YzaL

'Woodblocks in Wonderland: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series', Christopher on how a pioneering cross-cultural endeavour gave rise to a magnificent chapter in the history of children’s publishing: buff.ly/3gOYhfg

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: buff.ly/2JbHuPK #OTD

Bust of Half Skeleton and Half Woman, ca. 1615–1664.

One of 54 new prints recently added to online shop. Browse more than 800 images here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…

We are over on the “other place” too now as well , for those that are active on that platform . Same handle as here.

“Laughter in the Time of Cholera” — Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to 1830s France. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play: buff.ly/3F7PQFF

#OnThisDay in 1922, Marcel Proust passed away in Paris. In his essay “Proust's Pinks”, Christopher Prendergast explore the novelist's relationship with the colour pink: publicdomainreview.org/essay/prousts-… #otd

Trio of mushrooms illustrations, from the new batch of prints just added to our online shop. Explore here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-…

From M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des champignons: comestibles, suspects et vénéneux (1827): publicdomainreview.org/collection/atl…

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/ku…

Big fish, serious man — one of Marcus Selmer’s wonderful photographs of 19th-century Norwegians. More here: buff.ly/2ywB2A4

What might a rainforest ‘picnic of ideas, music and drawings’ lead to? Find out in my new piece for The Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/collection/man…