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

The Antique Gallery
Hubert Robert

The Statue in Front of Ruins
Hubert Robert

Book of Fountains: No. 4
Gabriel Huquier

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II Dancing with a Parasol
Katsukawa Shunshō

Vertumnus and Pomona
Jean François Janinet

Bacchanales: The Satyr's Family
Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Bacchanales: Nymph Astride a Satyr
Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Prayers for Rain, from the series Seven Elegant Komachi
Kitagawa Utamaro

Net Fishing at Night
Kitagawa Utamaro

Young Man and Child with a Kite
Isoda Koryūsai

Sanjo Kantaro as a Young Woman Standing in a Wisteria Arbor
Torii Kiyonobu I

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe no Suetake
Katsukawa Shunzan

Onoe Matsusuke as Usui Sadamitsu
Katsukawa Shunzan

Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna
Katsukawa Shunzan

Women in a Tea House
Kubo Shunman

Enjoying the Evening Cool Along the Sumida River
Kitagawa Utamaro

Kuronushi from the series The New Six Immortal Poets
Chōbunsai Eishi

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke
Katsukawa Shunshō

House of Cards
Pierre Filloeuil

Silver Sculptural Project for a Large Centerpiece and Two Tureens Which Have Been Executed for His Lordship the Duke of Kingston, plate 115 from Works of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonier)
Gabriel Huquier

The Indiscretion
Jean François Janinet

St. Rocco Waterfall and Bridge at Tivoli (Cascata e Ponte di St. Rocco a Tivoli)
Albert Christoph Dies

Net Fishing at Night on the Sumida River
Kitagawa Utamaro

Fujimura Handayu as a Courtesan
Torii Kiyomasu

Hatsuito of the Yamashiroya Likened to Bush Clover, from Beauties of the Floating World Compared to Flowers
Suzuki Harunobu

Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Traveller Beside a Clump of Iris
Katsukawa Shunshō

Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Urabe Suetake, Onoe Matsusuke I as Usui Sadamitsu, and Nakamura Nakazo I as Watanabe no Tsuna in “The Four Heavenly Kings Costumed as the Night Watch”
Katsukawa Shunzan

A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature: Large Double China Aster
John Edwards

Women Enjoying the Evening Cool Near Ryogoku Bridge
Kitagawa Utamaro

The First Guard
Gabriel Huquier

Ichimura Takenojo and Sanjo Kantaro as a Pair of Lovers in the Yoshiwara
Torii Kiyonobu I

Suite of Vases: Plate 12
Jacques François Saly

I was also in Arcadia (Kai ego en Arkadia)
Adrian Zingg

Women Watching a Girl Dance on Shells (From the series Fashionable Presentations of Three Horses)
Torii Kiyonaga

Segawa Kikunojō III as Teruha
Katsukawa Shunshō

Cherry Blossoms in the Wind
Utagawa Toyokuni

Falcon on a Willow
Isoda Koryūsai

Woman (Bijin) Looking at the Moon's Reflection, from the series Mu Tamagawa
Suzuki Harunobu

The Pranksters (Les Espiègles)
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Footbridge with Cross before Trees at a River
Caspar David Friedrich

The Shika Teahouse
Utagawa Toyokuni

Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Shingen in “A String of Prayer Beads Shaken at a Ribbon of Waterfall”
Katsukawa Shunshō

Onoe Matsusuke I as Ebisu, from The Stand-In Seven Gods of Good Fortune
Katsukawa Shunshō

Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Travelling Warrior
Katsukawa Shunkō

The Hour of the Snake (from the series A Clock for Young Women)
Kitagawa Utamaro

Attacking the Camp at Gatan Ola: from Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Region, with Imperial Poems
Giuseppe Castiglione

At Least Be Discreet
Augustin de Saint-Aubin

You May Count on Me
Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Print from Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River beneath Shin-Ōhashi Bridge
Chōbunsai Eishi

Kureha of Gakuiseya, from Selection of Beauties from the Pleasure Quarters
Suzuki Harunobu

Ichikawa Ebizo III as Yanone Goro in Nenriki arahitogami
Torii Kiyonobu II

Binzasara, A Dance with Clappers (From the series Entertainments at the Height of the Niwaka Festival in the Pleasure Quarters)
Eishōsai Chōki

Benevolence, from The Five Virtues
Suzuki Harunobu

Suite of Vases: Plate 24
Jacques François Saly

The Little Park
Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Lover Surprised (L'Amant Surpris)
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789
Charles Thévenin

Andromeda (Andromède)
François Boucher

Views: The Tower of Malghera
Antonio Canaletto

Battle Scenes of the Quelling of Rebellions in the Western Regions, with Imperial Poems
Giuseppe Castiglione