Public domain art in sand

Artworks whose dominant colour is sand, 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 sand

Maharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner (reigned 1669–98) Receives a Courtier

Ruknuddin

A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati

The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati

The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Suraju

The magic parrot of the merchant talks to the vizier’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu

Crossing at Sano

Tawaraya Sōtatsu

The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup

Soga Shōhaku

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Sravana

The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night

Sravana

Forbidden to the Vulgar

Uragami Gyokudō

Poetic Feeling in a Thatched Pavilion

Wu Zhen

Flowers of Four Seasons, with Poems

Wang Guxiang

Beauty in a Boat on Sumida River

Chōbunsai Eishi

Chinese Beauty

Kubo Shunman

Plum Blossoms

Wang Shishen

Virgin and Child

Icilio Federico Joni

Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Tani Bunchō

Festival of Insects

Motsurin Jōtō

Winter Day

Maruyama Ōkyo

Courtesan and Attendants

Engetsudō

Pleasure Boat on the Sumida River

Teisai Hokuba

Winter and Spring Landscape

Tenshō Shūbun

Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity

Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian

Duck in Flight

Shikibu Terutada

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds

Guillaume Vrelant

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin

Guillaume Vrelant

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Kano Tan’yū

Clearing Autumn Mists in the Chu Mountains

Lan Ying

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Chrysanthemum

Chen Hongshou

A Couple

Hasegawa Sōen

Portrait of Basho

Ichijun

Baoyang Lake

Song Xu

Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

Fazl

Bifolium from an Antiphonary: Initial M with Saint Dominic Preaching

Primo Miniatore di San Domenico

Courtesan

Ikeda Eisen

Courtesan

Kaigetsudō Ando

Mt. Daochang

Song Xu

Cutting from a Missal: Initial O with Christ Performing an Exorcism

Matteo da Milano

Spring and Autumn Farming

Kō Sūkoku

Spring and Autumn Farming (Spring)

Kō Sūkoku

Bilang Lake

Song Xu

Portrait of Maharaja Pratap Singh (1764–1803)

Sahib Ram

Spring and Autumn Farming (Autumn)

Kō Sūkoku

Calligraphy from a ghazal of Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (Persian, 1213–1289) and a verse from the Tuhfat al-ahrar (The Gift of the Free) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (verso)

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi

Durham, Connecticut

George Inness

Courtesan Seated on a Bench Enjoying the Evening Cool in Summer

Kamigaki Hōryū

Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata

Bilal Habshi

The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri)

Sakai Basai

Hanshan and Shide (Kanzan and Jittoku)

Shikibu Terutada

The Four Seasons

Kano Tan’yū

Yutai Peak (Jade Terrace Peak)

Song Xu

A Courtier, Possibly Khan Alam, Holding a Spinel and a Deccan Sword

Govardhan

Lüshan Hui

Song Xu

Mt. Changchao

Song Xu

Mt. Fenghuang (Mt. Phoenix)

Song Xu

Hexi

Song Xu

A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince

Manohar

Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)

Mushfiq

Page from the Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds)

Abd al-Rahim, the Anbarin-Qalam

Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar)

Sur Das Gujarati