THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW

Happy #WorldLionDay! Pictured is an image by 16th-century Swiss scholar Konrad Gesner, featured in Edward Topsell’s wonderful History of Four-footed Beasts (1607). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/topsell-s-history-of-four-footed-beasts-and-serpents-1658

Still Life with Peeled Orange and Bunch of Grapes, Albertus Steenbergen, late 19th century.⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ Available as a print from our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/still-life-with-peeled-orange-and-bunch-of-grapes

Take a closer look at "The Garden of Earthly Delights", the best known painting by the genius that was Hieronymus Bosch, who died #onthisday in 1516: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/details-from-bosch-s-garden-of-earthly-delights-ca-1500 #otd

Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

Some essential reading for #InternationalCatDay" — the wonderfully illustrated Nine Lives of a Cat (1860) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-nine-lives-of-a-cat-1860

From a 14th-century illuminated manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (The flower of Nature). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jacob-van-maerlant-der-naturen-bloeme #fridayfish

"Drunk or sober go to bed Tom" and other sage advice from Dame Talkative's Old Sayings (1824), a wonderfully odd book of illustrated rhymes. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dame-talkative-s-old-sayings-ca-1824

Selection of illustrations from Variae Architecturae Formae (1636), a series of architectural studies after the works of Hans Vredeman de Vries, a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/various-forms-of-architecture-1636

More in @LilyRFord's essay exploring how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/for-the-sake-of-the-prospect-experiencing-the-world-from-above-in-the-late-18th-century

Illustrations from Richard Davey's A History of Mourning (1890), which you can read here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-history-of-mourning-1890

One of a hundred tales to be found in Anecdotes of Animals (1905): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905

From a selection of rainbows in art, spanning 800 years: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbows-in-art @metmuseum

And more on the good work of owl conservation here: https://www.owls.org/

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. 1585.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Available as a print from our online shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/a-young-daughter-of-the-picts

Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours

This is a photograph taken in 1873. Did its creator James Nasmyth somehow, and very secretly, beat the Apollo space program by almost 100 years? You may be surprised to hear he did not. It's a photograph of one of his many intricate models. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-models-of-the-moon-1874