16th century public domain art
Artworks created between 1501 and 1600, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.
Works in 16th century public domain art
Plate 47: A Dragonfly (Banded Darter?), Grasshopper, Houseflies, a Carrion Beetle, a Flower Longhorn Beetle, and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 4: Empty Oval
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 49: A Grasshopper, a Caterpillar, a Butterfly, a Moth, and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 50: Grasshoppers, a Caterpillar, and a Scale Insect with a Four O'Clock Flower
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 51: Grasshoppers and a Caterpillar with a Four O'Clock Flower
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 52: Four Grasshoppers
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 53: Southern Hawker Dragonfly
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 54: Hairy Dragonfly and Two Darters
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 55: Three Green Damselflies with Brown Wings (Beautiful Desmoiselles?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 56: A Rosebud and a Disintegrating Pink Rose
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 57: A Ladybug, a Fly, and Four Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 58: A Bee and Five Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 5: Stag Beetle
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 59: Seven Insects, Including a Hawthorn Shield Bug, Crane Flies, and a Hoverfly
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 60: Flies and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 61: Seven Insects, Including Flies
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 62: Ten Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 63: A Dragonfly, a Spotted Longhorn, a Sexton Beetle, and Other Insects with a Blue and White Columbine
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 64: Eleven Insects, Including a Dragonfly and Longhorn Beetle
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 65: A Cricket Surrounded by Insects, Including a Ruby-Tailed Wasp
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 66: Two Oil Beetles, a Longhorn Beetle, and Four Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 67: Seven Insects, Including a White Butterfly and a Bee
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 68: Seven Bees and Flies
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 6: Two Views of a Mourning Cloak (Camberwell Beauty) Butterfly with a Comma Butterfly
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 69: Nine Bees and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 70: A Roach Surrounded by Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 71: Two Wasps and a Pill Bug
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 72: Shield Bug, Cinnamon Bug, Wasp, and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 73: Ten Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 74: Insects with White Daffodils
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 75: A Fly and Other Insects with an Iris
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 76: Insects with a Pink and Cream Columbine
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 77: Dotted Bee Fly with a White Flower, a Mayfly, a Blue Weevil, and Other Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 78: Ten Insects, Including a Blue Fly
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 7: Swallowtail Butterfly
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 79: Twelve Insects, Including Shield Bugs
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 80: Purple and Yellow Viola
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 8: Orange Tip, Painted Lady, Southern Small White, and Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies
Joris Hoefnagel
Title Page
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 9: A Donkey and a Mule
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 10: A Lion and a Civet Cat
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 11: A Lioness with Two Lions in the Background
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 12: A Cheetah(?) and a Wild Sheep
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 13: A Tiger, a Lynx, and a Jaguar(?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 14: A Civet, a Lynx, and a Hyena Eating a Dog
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 15: A Bear and a Lynx(?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 16: Wild Boar
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 17: Old World Porcupine (Hystrix) and Wild Pig
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 18: A Pig with Acorns
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 1: Elephant with Insects
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 19: Four Types of Stags
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 20: Three Types of Stags with a Dormouse(?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 21: Reindeer with Melons
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 22: Blackhead Persian Sheep and a Sheep with a Long Tail, with a Cactus
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 23: A Fat-Tailed Sheep, a Sheep with a Long Tail, a "Cassia purgatrix,"and Other Plants
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 24: A Wild Goat and a Barbary Sheep(?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 25: Two Wild Goats
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 26: A Red Fox and a Wolf
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 27: A Cross Fox, a Hyena/Baboon, a "Sea Wolf," and a Gulon (Wolverine?)
Joris Hoefnagel
Plate 28: A "Tartarine" (Barbary Macaque?) with Fruit and a Snail
Joris Hoefnagel