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

The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

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A Heroine and Her Paramour: Malavi Ragini, from a Ragamala

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She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams

Maurice Denis

In order to falsely implicate her husband, Hamnaz places a knife by his side and lets the blood dripping from her nose stain his clothes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

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The painting made by the vizier of the emperor of China for the queen of Rum, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night

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The Raja’s daughter and her lover stoned to death for adultery, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-Second Night

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The four destitute friends go to a wise man who gives each one of them a magic shell to be placed on top of the turban, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

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The young man of Baghdad reunited with his slave-girl, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night

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The Lover Leaves Wistfully in the Morning after a Passionate Tryst: Lalit Ragini, from a Ragamala

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Drawing of a Man’s Head with an Unusual Turban

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The snake, hidden in a basket of flowers, reveals himself to the Raja who has just sent away his wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-third Night

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The fourth man digs at the spot where he dropped the shell, expecting jewels, but discovering mere iron, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

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The young man of Baghdad solicits advice from a friend as his slave girl, who is adept at music, awaits, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night

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The merchant returns bringing a young slave who is really the son of the princess of Rum, now married to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night

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The son of the pious man slays the dragon, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

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The pious man’s son presents the slain dragon to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night

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Krishna and Gopis

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Krishna and Radha Avoid Embarrassment: Mottaita Bhava, from a Rasikapriya

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The Elephant of Maharana Jai Singh of Mewar (r. 1680–98) Catches a Horse by the Tail

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Shiva and His Followers Return to Mount Kailash (verso), from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (1670–1740)

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Maharao Ram Singh II of Kota (r. 1828–66) Hunting Buffalo

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Akrura Drives Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, from the “Isarda Bhagavata Purana”

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Chinese Landscape

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Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur (reigned 1635–1678)

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Kali attacking Nisumbha

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A traveler persuades Lorik to return home (top); Chanda objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)

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Woman Looking at the Moon

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Durga Killing the Demon Mahisha

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Mahliqa, Daughter of the Emperor of China, Pointing at the Bird-Man Khwaja Mubarak: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (verso); Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso)

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Page of disasters, from the Tarikh-i Alfi (History of a Thousand Years)

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An East African King Receives Three Emissaries, from a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

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Devi Attacking a Demon

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Three Cuttings from a Missal: Initial L with the Annunciation to the Shepherds

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A prince visiting a holy man in a rocky landscape

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Miniature Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: The Symbol of Saint Matthew (recto)

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Lovers parting, page from a book of fables

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Miniature Excised from a Gospel Book: The Symbol of St. Matthew (recto) and Canon Tables (verso)

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Seated Jina Rishabha Enshrined, from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-Sutra

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The Entry into Jerusalem (folio 156 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

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A raven brings food to Elijah (folio 72 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier,

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A Princess and Demons before a Nobleman: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (recto); Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso)

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Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son in Capernaum (folio 70 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

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Jesus on Mount Tabor, near Nazareth where he Chooses Twelve of his Followers and Calls them Apostles (folio 87 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

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Ritual Bath of Mahavira, Folio 31 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra

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English Babu (Native Indian Clerk) Holding a Hookah

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Moses praying to end the serpents’ attack on the Israelites (folio 63 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

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Grapevine

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Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto), from a Kalighat album

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Nitai and Gaur

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The dethroned frog Shapur seeks the help of the serpent, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenth-sixth Night

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Mahant of Tarakeshwar Rides on an Elephant

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Vishnu and Lakshmi

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Garuda Carrying Balarama and Krishna (verso), from a Kalighat album

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Seven Heroes or Warriors Killing Abhimanya, Son of Arjuna

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Radha and Krishna (verso), from a Kalighat album

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Annapurna and Shiva

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An African Lyre Player (recto)

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Nanda Solves Vasudeva’s Dilemma, from a Bhagavata Purana

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Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya

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Head of a Beauty

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