18th century public domain art
Artworks created between 1701 and 1800, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.
Works in 18th century public domain art

Winter landscape
Utagawa Hiroshige II 歌川広重 二世 (1826-1869)

Sparklers, crab and bulb
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

A Shinto Priest, Three Women and a Child
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Blue and white flowers on slender stalks
Inscription and seals of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

Dragon emerging from clouds
Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Hermit resting on a rock
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Interior: a woman helping a girl to dress
Katsukawa Shuncho 勝川春潮 (active ca. 1780-1795)

The fisherman Hakuryo and Mount Fuji
Hishikawa Sori 菱川宗理 (active 1789-1818)

Three gardeners of the Emperor Takakura heating sake over a fire of maple leaves
Kikuchi Yosai 菊池容斎 (1788-1878)

Legendary beings
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Summer landscape
Utagawa Hiroshige II 歌川広重 二世 (1826-1869)

Seated man with nobleman's cap
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Henrich Dulhauer

Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Johann Heinrich Otto

Fraktur Motifs
Johann Heinrich Otto

Fraktur
Johann Heinrich Otto

Drawing of a Hunt
Friederich Krebs

Hunter (from McGuire Scrapbook)
William Apthorp Adams

The Stoning of Saint Stephen
Washington Allston

Figure in Eastern Costume
Mather Brown

Group on the Stockport Road
Mather Brown

In Like Manner Shall He Descend
Mather Brown

Scene at Liverpool
Mather Brown

Scene from "Don Quixote"
Mather Brown

Portrait of a Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Campbell

Cattle (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Charles Catton, Jr.

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figure Reaching; Sprawling Figures; Cheering Group; Dying Sailors
John Singleton Copley

Mrs. Ebenezer Storer (Mary Edwards)
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Three Officers, Two Standing and One Kneeling
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Surrender of the Dutch Admiral De Winter to Admiral Duncan, October 11, 1797": Two Studies of a Man with a Sail or Flag
John Singleton Copley

Two Equestrian Figures, Possibly a Study for "George IV, Prince of Wales"
John Singleton Copley

Study for "John Adams"
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Knatchbull Family": Norton Joseph Knatchbull
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Knatchbull Family": Sir Edward Knatchbull
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figure Astride Cannon Pulling Down Spanish Colors
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": The Wrecked Longboat
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figures Astride Spar
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figures Scaling Floating Battery; Cannon
John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers
John Singleton Copley

Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Asher Brown Durand

Flowers (from McGuire Scrapbook)
James Holland

Shipwreck
Charles Cromwell Ingham

John Adams
James Sharples

Head of a Scotsman (from McGuire Scrapbook)
D. Levine

New York from Hobuck
Alexander Robertson

George Washington
James Sharples Jr.

Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York
John Rubens Smith

Chart and Plan of the Harbour of New York
Peter Van Steenbergh

Sleeping Venus
Thomas Sully

General Arthur St. Clair
John Trumbull

Major General Horatio Gates
John Trumbull

Abigail Smith Adams
James Sharples

Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Daniel Crommelin
Dutch Painter

The Finding of the Body of Clytemnestra
Benjamin West

Panthea Stabs Herself beside the Corpse of Abradatas
Benjamin West

Tree (from McGuire Scrapbook)
E. B. B.

Elizabeth Maria Church
John Vanderlyn

Portrait of the Artist
John Vanderlyn

Sarah Russell Church (daughter of Edward Church)
John Vanderlyn