Public domain art in charcoal
Artworks whose dominant colour is charcoal, measured from the image itself rather than from a curator's tag. Every work here is free to download and reuse.
Works in Public domain art in charcoal

Mrs. Ebenezer Storer (Mary Edwards)
John Singleton Copley

John Adams
James Sharples

Delaware Water Gap (?)
Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Niagara Falls—Canadian Side by Moonlight
Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Passaic Falls, New Jersey (?)
Pavel Petrovich Svinin

A Town on the Mohawk River in Central New York State (?)
Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Abigail Smith Adams
James Sharples

Elizabeth Maria Church
John Vanderlyn

Mrs. Ichabod M. Cushman (nee Nancy Blymer)
Henry Williams

Near Last Camp on Ross Fork, Snake River, Lander Wagon Road, Oregon
Henry Hitchings

Standing Portrait of a Lady with a Globe (from Sketchbook)
Thomas Sully

Burnside Bridge, Across the Antietam, near Sharpsburg, No. 1, September 1862
Alexander Gardner

Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February
Dorothea Lange

White House Landing, Pamunkey River
Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Bull Run. Blackburn's Ford
Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Sanitary Commission Office. Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, Virginia
Mathew B. Brady

Ruins of RR Bridge. Bull Run
Mathew B. Brady

Crow's Nest, Battery and Lookout
Andrew Joseph Russell

Co. B, 170th New York Volunteers
Mathew B. Brady

Bull Run. Matthews House
George N. Barnard

General Butler's Headquarters, Chapin's Farm, Virginia
Andrew Joseph Russell

21st Michigan Infantry. Sherman's Volunteers
Mathew B. Brady

Dutch Gap Canal
Andrew Joseph Russell

Bull Run, Virginia
George N. Barnard

Confederate Earthworks, Centreville, Virginia
George N. Barnard

Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania
Mathew B. Brady

Hanover Junction Station, Pennsylvania
Mathew B. Brady

Fort Putnam, South Carolina
Mathew B. Brady

Washington. Armory Square Hospital
Mathew B. Brady

Co. D, 21st Michigan Infantry. Sherman's Volunteers
Mathew B. Brady

Camp Northumberland, 91st Pennsylvania Infantry
Mathew B. Brady

Fort Totten, N.W. of Washington
Mathew B. Brady

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Mathew B. Brady

Company C, 9th Indiana Infantry (Sherman's Veterans)
Mathew B. Brady

Land Battery of Naval Guns
Mathew B. Brady

Military Railroad Camp, City Point, Virginia
Andrew Joseph Russell

St. Peter's Church near White House, Where Washington was Married. General E. V. Sumner and Staff
Alexander Gardner

Ward in Hospital. Convalescent Camp, Alexandria Virginia
Mathew B. Brady

Manet's Studio in the Batignolles
Henri Fantin-Latour

Bear Killing Bull
Antoine-Louis Barye

Caracal and Pheasant
Antoine-Louis Barye

Dead Horses
Antoine-Louis Barye

Izards in the Glaciers (Pyrenean Chamois)
Antoine-Louis Barye

An old man delousing a boy accompanied by three figures, a cat in the foreground; page 40 from the 'Images of Spain Album (F)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

A Theater Audience
Honoré Daumier

Figures inside a prison (recto), a monstrous animal (verso)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Joshua, with the Sun at Upper Left
Hippolyte Flandrin

Embroidery; The Artist's Mother
Georges Seurat

Half-Timbered Houses along a Waterway
Eugène Cicéri

Returning Home
Johann Georg Meyer

La Nuit (Night)
Pierre Antoine Baudouin

Twin Stars
Luis Falero

Venus and Cupid in a Landscape, after Annibale Carracci (recto); A Warrior Holding a Shield and Sword, Seen from the Back (verso)
Théodore Gericault

Goetz von Berlichingen Being Dressed in Armor by His Page George
Eugène Delacroix

Portrait of a Lady
Constantin Guys

A Lady with a Veil
Constantin Guys

Woman Standing in a Doorway
Constantin Guys

A Lady in a Bonnet and Coat
Constantin Guys

Two Ladies Taking a Walk
Constantin Guys

Self-Portrait
John I Smart